Re: Recovery by Relocation.

Roger Burton West wrote:
Dave wrote:

Although reading Day of the Triffids, and -then- seeing the screen adaptation is probably more to blame for that attitude than anything else.

_Which_ screen adaptation? The BBC one isn't bad at all.

I assume the 50s film, which bore a passing resemblance to the novel in that it had a character called Bill and had some killer plants.
The BBC adaptation was pretty good. I saw it when it was first shown when I was quite young and it turned me on to John Wyndham. I then devoured all of the books I could get my hands on.
I wasn't even that disappointed when I bought the series on DVD and rewatched it recently.
J
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