The Tripods on Who?World ______ ______ ______ Best Viewed at 1024x768 pixels This site is Brought to you by Who?World. Email at: The 1984/5 BBC series The Tripods was one of the
longest and most expensive adaptations of the BBC with 25 total made
episodes, each of about 25 minutes. The models were huge and the series
used a huge cast. Unfortunately, the
costs were quite high and the idea of season three was cancelled, but the
first two books of John Christopher's celebrated trilogy were fully made
and a fine work it was! Fine
scripting, lavish costume and design, ground-breaking model work and video
editing, beautifully composed landscape filming, good acting and
painstaking care over details were all excellent. The project, indeed, was a great success.
The Tripods Available for Purchase ▼ SERIES ONE: A two disc DVD PAL Region 0 Release along with a double-cassette
PAL Release of Season One was released by Second Sight Films, Ltd. In the ▼ SERIES TWO: The entire second series was filmed and completed…but was
never released to buy in any country.
Second Sight was doing great with the release of Series One and they
were keen to carry on, but for some reason it seems that the rights for its
release were withdrawn. ▼ SERIES THREE: Unfortunately, the idea for the production of the final Series
Three for The Tripods was dropped by the BBC. Yes, the fact that makes us fans most
aggrieved. L _________________________________________________ The Books that started it all… The Tripods started as a trilogy
written by author John Christopher (pseudonym for Samuel Youd). The trilogy consisted of the stories “The White
Mountains” (Series One), “The City of Gold and Lead” (Series Two), and “The
Pool of Fire” (the never-made Series Three). Written around 1967-68, the trilogy told
the story pretty much the same as the series. The show remained loyal to the books
(with some added surprises) and the plot remained unchanged. A later written prequel to the trilogy,
“When the Tripods Came” was written by Christopher in response to the
question: how did the Tripods overcome the advanced technology of the 21st
century? The stories were great and
resulted in our great but unfairly unpopular and incomplete TV series. _____________________________________ Tripod Site Links A huge Tripods page
with tons of info on its making, availability, and other info. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/tripods/ Part of the BBC Cult list of BBC
shows, This site contains tons of pictures and a
few video clips. http://www.the-snu.co.uk/tripods.html A Tripods site with
a bit of info and pictures. http://www.circus.edendev.co.uk/otherarticles/tripods.htm The Tripods: a Trilogy in Two Parts. Lots of info about the story and series production. *If you know of any good Tripods web page that isn’t
included here, please let me know!
http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/Tripods.html
Adapted from the first two books in John Christopher's
"Tripods" trilogy, the show frustratingly failed to deliver the final
story that winds everything up. This is the summary of the first series of The
Tripods as displayed on Amazon.co.uk. In
2089, the human race lives a peaceful, agrarian existence in post-technological
communities under the rule of the Tripods, vast alien machines that look like
the Martian machines from HG Wells’s War of the
Worlds (well, the books, at least).
In a small English village, teenage cousins Will and Henry are troubled as they
near the age at which they will be "capped", fitted by the local
Tripod with a metallic hairnet which will turn them into docile, uncreative,
happy servants of the invaders. A wily vagrant tells the boys that far to the
south, a community of uncapped freemen resists the Tripods, and they set off on
a 13-episode journey that takes them to the coast, across the English Channel
and down through France, with stop-offs in the impressive ruins of Paris, at a
medieval-style chateau and on a vineyard in the Jura.
Along the way, the lads fall in with "Beanpole", a gangling,
bespectacled French rebel who is fascinated with the lost arts of
machine-making, but at each of their stopovers there are temptations, mostly in
the forms of appealing French girls, to settle down and become happy
conformists, but in the end they do join up with the rebels, ready for a
mission to the city of the Tripods that occurs in Series Two.
Now all we need is for Second Sight to release Season
Two!!!
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See some possible cover
art I’ve made for The Tripods. Fairly good, depending on
your taste.
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We Want Series Two!
The Tripods, an excellent BBC venture into Science Fiction
and telefantasy, was finally released in March of 2001. Unfortunately, though,
all Tripods fans know that the release of Season 2 has been delayed
indefinitely. This is our chance for us to tell the wonderful individuals at
Second Sight Inc. that we want the Series released in its entirety. Also, this
petition asks for an American (NTSC) release for both seasons. We lost our
chance when the BBC released the series on the VHS, so don't sit idly by when
one of the greatest shows to come from
Come
support Jim Baker and the world of Tripods fans! Sign the petition!
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…Thanks for your support!
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