The Day of the Triffids
(1981)
Bill's quest to find Jo leads him into the country, where he finds that disease and the triffids are wiping out humanity.
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Title: Part Five (08 Oct 1981)
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| John Duttine | ... | Bill | |
| Maurice Colbourne | ... | Coker | |
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Emma Relph | ... | Jo |
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Perlita Neilson | ... | Miss Durrant |
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Christopher Owen | ... | Vicar |
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Emily Dean | ... | Susan |
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Jenny Lipman | ... | Mary |
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Desmond Adams | ... | Dennis |
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Bill fails to find Jo but,seeing the address Tynsham House,Wiltshire,on a blackboard,travels there with Coker. They find part of the London group there and,seeing the future as reliant on community living,Coker stays whilst Bill,remembering the name of a commune in Sussex Jo once gave him,presses on. He picks up orphaned child Susan and is eventually reconciled with Jo and her friends. He returns to Tynsham House to tell Coker but finds he has gone and all the other residents have died of the sickness. Meanwhile the triffids' numbers are increasing. Written by don @ minifie-1
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8 October 1981 (UK) See more »Company Credits
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), RCTV Inc., Australian Broadcasting Commission See more »
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