The series is also notable for featuring non-humanoid aliens, which was uncommon at the time.Ĭharlotte Long, who played Will's love interest Eloise, died in a car crash shortly after the start of transmission of the first series. He also stated that he felt the addition of an entire family of girls to the TV series was somewhat "over the top". John Christopher was asked about this for an interview on Wordcandy, replying that at the time of writing the series, it was generally accepted that girls would read books with boy main characters, but not vice versa. The original texts have few female characters. The series introduced several minor changes from the book, notably the shape of the Masters and Tripods, which have tentacles (although the Tripods do have a mechanical claw-arm that they sometimes use) in the book the Black Guard was introduced to serve as a tangible human antagonist as overuse of the Tripods themselves would be expensive to film and undermine their dramatic presence gravity inside the Golden City was increased artificially, which is not mentioned in the TV series the introduction of "cognoscs", spiritual life-forms vastly superior to the Masters themselves and more other main characters, including love interests for both Will and Beanpole. The BBC released Tripods - The Complete Series 1 & 2 on DVD in March 2009. The first series was released on both VHS and DVD. Although a television script had been written for the third series, it was cancelled by BBC executives Michael Grade and Jonathan Powell due to the adaptation failing in the ratings.
Series one of The Tripods, broadcast in 1984, had 13 half-hour episodes written by Alick Rowe, the author of many radio plays, and covers the first book, The White Mountains the 12-episode second series (1985) written by Christopher Penfold covers The City of Gold and Lead. The music soundtrack was written by Ken Freeman.
It was jointly produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom and the Seven Network in Australia. The Tripods is a television adaptation of John Christopher's The Tripods series of novels.
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