The day of the triffids / British Broadcasting Corporation ; adapted by Douglas Livingstone ; producer, David Maloney ; director, Ken Hannam.

In this six-episode television mini-series, a meteor shower blinds the population following the Earth's close encounter with a comet. Bill Masen, recovering from a vicious plant attack, is one of the few people to survive with his eyesight intact. But the world he emerges into is a nightmare.