#Emma Relph

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The Day of the Triffids - BBC One - September 10, 1981 - October 15, 1981

Science Fiction (6 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

John Duttine as Bill Masen

Emma Relph as Josella Payton

Maurice Colbourne as Jack Coker

Minor characters

Stephen Yardley as John

Gary Olsen as Torrence

Lorna Charles as Susan (teenaged)

Emily Dean as Susan (young)

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From the Triffids to Blake’s 7 and Ghostwatch: the BBC’s greatest cult classics

John Wyndham’s novels often get described as “cosy catastrophes”, but there was nothing cosy about this adaptation starring John Duttine and Emma Relph set in an abandoned and unruly London. The sound effects of the triffids can still raise the hairs on the back of the necks of people of a certain age.

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Eureka | Nicolas Roeg | 1983

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BBC adaptation of Day of The Triffids (1981)

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REVIEW: Day of the Triffids – Episode 2 (1981)

REVIEW: Day of the Triffids – Episode 2 (1981)

Egads! It has it been a while since I looked at this series, and I know that I should do more seeing that it brings the most traffic to my blog than any other topic! I had previously stated how thrilled I was that Netflix was carrying the show, and that they had a big selection of such material. I guess the people who make sure we don’t have any fun saw my glowing praise and the show was gone…

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John Duttine and Emma Relph in "The Day of the Triffids"

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The Witches | Nicolas Roeg | 1990

Jenny Runacre, (Emma Relph), Anne Lambton, Anjelica Huston, Jane Horrocks, Angelique Rockas, Jasen Fisher

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There may be spoilers ...

Watched The Day of the Triffids (2009) last night. It was awful. I love John Wyndham's stories, read them as a kid and reread my favourites every year or so ... and one thing he does exceptionally well is build tension.

This had decent performances from the leads but they were overrun with scary plants from the beginning. The disaster should unfold, but no sooner had Bill woken up in his bandages than the hospital looked like a Home Bargains at closing time on 24.12 ... it was not right.

Don't get me started on the African masks. 🤐😦

One of the most exciting scenes in the book is them outwitting and escaping a paramilitary outfit that wants to bring them in. Not exciting enough for Patrick Harbinson, who had to have Eddie Izzard doing crazy stuff and triffids everywhere.

I get that CGI is fun, but it seems to me that a more realistic looking monster does not mean you have to throw out a good story nor does it compensate for the loss of it. Numpties!

I need to watch John Duttine and Emma Relph NOW to take the nasty taste away ...