Episode 1

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Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

The world is struck blind by a solar storm, and millions of man-eating mobile plants are released to roam Britain.

As an expert on the Triffids, Bill Masen knows that salvation rests in the hands of the father he hates, who mutated the Triffids in the first place to produce a green source of oil that the world craves.

Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.

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Credits

Bill Masen
Dougray Scott
Jo Playton
Joely Richardson
Torrence
Eddie Izzard
Bill's Dad
Brian Cox
Durrant
Vanessa Redgrave
Coker
Jason Priestley
Walter Strange
Ewen Bremner
Osman
Shane Taylor
Professor Vorless
Andreas Hoppe
Lucy
Nora-Jane Noone
Michelle Beadley
Genevieve O'Reilly
Colonel
Tim Frances
Old Man
Willie Jonah
Doctor Koch
Steven Elder
Ashdown
Adam Sinclair
Susan
Jenn Murray
Imogen
Julia Joyce
Wheelchair Lady
Rita Davies
Cordelia
Rosalind Halstead
Hilda
Lizzie Hopley
Jeff
William Ilkley
Charlie
John Wilson Goddard
Vronsky
Paul Chahidi
Troy
Troy Glasgow
Father Thomas
Philip Anthony
Television Director
Simon Lowe
Doctor
Raji James
Bill's Mother
Kathryn Sumner
Actor
Sam Williams
First Hospital Mother
Helen Barford
Second Hospital Mother
Margo Virginia Cargill
Third Hospital Mother
Jasmine Jeffery
Fourth Hospital Mother
Natasha Alderslade
Girl in Street
Eva Sayer
Girl's Mother
Claire-Louise Cordwell
Man in Street
Simon Naylor
Man in Street
Paul Blair
Blind Policeman
Tony Maudsley
Barricade Police Officer
Paul Woodson
Barricade Police Sergeant
Scott Baker
Barricade Man
John White
Barricade Woman
Stephanie Carey
Australian Reporter
Tim Versteegen
Austrian Reporter
Karl Fischer
Director
Nick Copus
Producer
Stephen Smallwood
Writer
Patrick Harbinson

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