An introspective scientist. Bill is our thoughtful Triffid expert, more at home with his Triffid research than social interaction.
Bill has made a living researching the Triffids which his parents discovered and brought back to the UK. His personal experience with the Triffids as a child has connected him to the Triffids in a way he does not fully understand and has made him acutely aware of just how dangerous they can be. Keeping his sight after the solar flare, Bill is totally driven to reach Shirning, his father’s home, in the hope of putting aside his differences with him and work together to stop the Triffids before they spore.
A sinister and obsessive man who retains his sight after the solar flare and sees this as an opportunity to step into the power vacuum that has resulted in Downing Street. A stickler for rules and authority.
When Bill and Jo are held captive by his new ‘army’, Torrence becomes obsessed with Jo and plans to use her celebrity to draw more people to the cities who can fight for his cause. Determined to rule over the remaining sighted population and keep the blind away from the centre of London, Torrence cannot foresee the approach of the Triffids towards the capital and soon comes to realize that he will need Bill’s help to fight them off once and for all. IMDB Entry Wiki Entry Facebook Fan Page Official Site Izzard Stand-up on Youtube
Jason Priestley (Coker)
A former military man with liberal principles who strongly believes that the remaining sighted in the UK have a duty to support and care for the remaining blind population.
Initially Torrence claims that Coker is behind the imprisonment of Bill, Joe and a number of blind people as they begin to build a new order in London. Later, Bill discovers that he too is a prisoner and his name a front for Torrence to seize authority amongst blind and sighted alike. IMDB Entry Wiki Entry Facebook Fan Page Official Site
A radio journalist, Jo is a bright, sociable and irreverent woman protected from the solar flare covering the event from the underground.
Initially frightened by the chaos of the blinding and the collapse of normal society, Jo clings to Bill after their chance meeting for support. As Jo learns more about the Triffids and Bill’s mission to stop them reproducing, so the characters grow closer to one another and fall in love. Wiki Entry Wiki Entry Facebook Fan Page
The estranged father of Bill, Dennis is the scientist who discovered the Triffids in Africa and exploited their commercial uses.
Bill seeks Dennis’ help in stopping the plants from overrunning the country. IMDB Entry Wiki Entry
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Dougray Scott (DR Bill Masen)
An introspective scientist. Bill is our thoughtful Triffid expert, more at home with his Triffid research than social interaction.
Bill has made a living researching the Triffids which his parents discovered and brought back to the UK. His personal experience with the Triffids as a child has connected him to the Triffids in a way he does not fully understand and has made him acutely aware of just how dangerous they can be. Keeping his sight after the solar flare, Bill is totally driven to reach Shirning, his father’s home, in the hope of putting aside his differences with him and work together to stop the Triffids before they spore.
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Eddie Izzard (Torrence)
A sinister and obsessive man who retains his sight after the solar flare and sees this as an opportunity to step into the power vacuum that has resulted in Downing Street. A stickler for rules and authority.
When Bill and Jo are held captive by his new ‘army’, Torrence becomes obsessed with Jo and plans to use her celebrity to draw more people to the cities who can fight for his cause. Determined to rule over the remaining sighted population and keep the blind away from the centre of London, Torrence cannot foresee the approach of the Triffids towards the capital and soon comes to realize that he will need Bill’s help to fight them off once and for all.
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Jason Priestley (Coker)
A former military man with liberal principles who strongly believes that the remaining sighted in the UK have a duty to support and care for the remaining blind population.
Initially Torrence claims that Coker is behind the imprisonment of Bill, Joe and a number of blind people as they begin to build a new order in London. Later, Bill discovers that he too is a prisoner and his name a front for Torrence to seize authority amongst blind and sighted alike.
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Vanessa Redgrave (Durrant)
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Joely Richardson (Jo Playton)
A radio journalist, Jo is a bright, sociable and irreverent woman protected from the solar flare covering the event from the underground.
Initially frightened by the chaos of the blinding and the collapse of normal society, Jo clings to Bill after their chance meeting for support. As Jo learns more about the Triffids and Bill’s mission to stop them reproducing, so the characters grow closer to one another and fall in love.
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Ewan Bremner (Walter)
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Brian Cox (Dennis Mason)
The estranged father of Bill, Dennis is the scientist who discovered the Triffids in Africa and exploited their commercial uses.
Bill seeks Dennis’ help in stopping the plants from overrunning the country.
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Director Nick Copus
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Screenwriter Partrick Harbinson
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SFX Neil Champion
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