The BBC’s 1981 adaptation of John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids is justifiably regarded as one of the best versions – but there are some serious issues with the new release, as Andy Smith points out:

This “filmised” effect is common practice in modern UK drama (apart from soaps usually) being much cheaper than shooting on film, but having it applied to standard definition material recorded on analogue tape renders it a smeary, jerky, jagged mess, deinterlacing effectively removing half the information from the picture.

Read Andy’s full review here and you may not be aware of the sequel by Simon Clark, which was dramatised by Big Finish a few years ago.

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