The 1984/5 BBC series The Tripods is a minor classic of telefantasy. One of the
longest adaptations on British television,with over 120 speaking parts.

It overreached itself and the projected third season was cancelled, but there's much
to value; fine scripting, lavish costume and design, ground-breaking model work and
video editing, beautifully composed landscape filming, good acting (most of the time)
and painstaking care over details.

At £1,000,000 for the series, the BBC had high hopes of producing all three books for
television but Micheal Grade pulled the plug due to poor ratings and bad reviews.