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The day of the triffids / British Broadcasting Corporation ; adapted by Douglas Livingstone ; producer, David Maloney ; director, Ken Hannam.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 030 548 DVD + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Day of the triffids (Television program : 1981)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wyndham, John, 1903-1969--Television adaptations.
- Wyndham, John.
- Wyndham, John, 1903-1969.
- Plant mutation--Drama.
- Plant mutation.
- Meteorites--Drama.
- Meteorites.
- Blind.
- England--Drama.
- England.
- Blind--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Science fiction television programs.
- Television mini-series.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Television adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital optical monaural Dolby Digital
- full screen (1.33:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- Following the Earth's close encounter with a comet, a meteor shower blinds the population. 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.
- Participant:
- John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne.
- Credits:
- Music, Christopher Gunning; editor, Dick Allen.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Based on Day of the triffids / by John Wyndham.
- Videodisc release of all six episodes which comprise the television series originally broadcast in 1981.
- ISBN:
- 1419860291
- 9781419860294
- OCLC:
- 173522030
- Publisher Number:
- 794051416629
- E4166 BBC Video
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