A close viewing of the first season of the BBC telefantasy The Tripods (1984), written to mark its fortieth anniversary on 15 September 2024.

Contents

• Introduction

• Part I – The Lines Behind Stone Farm

  • Episode 1
  • Aside — Wherton and England
  • Aside — The Big-Top Gala
  • Aside — Not Easy to Follow
  • Episode 2
  • Aside — The Case Against The Tripods
  • Episode 3
  • Aside — Into Europe
  • Episode 4

• Entr’acte — Other Tripods

  • Not Counting…
  • The Neverending Episode 4
  • Boys and Girls

• Part II – I Will Call You Guillaume

  • Introduction
  • Episode 5
  • Aside — What Genre Even Is This?
  • Episode 6
  • Episode 7
  • Aside — Unmasking
  • Episode 8, first half

• Part III: But It Will Hurt, If I Cut It Out

  • Episode 8, second half
  • Aside — Tunnelling Out of The White Mountains
  • Episode 9
  • Aside — Fair Stood the Farmhouse Kitchen
  • Episode 10
  • Aside — Where Are We Going?

• Part IV: All This Way, On The Word of a Vagrant

  • Episode 11
  • Episode 12
  • Aside — Shelter after Shelter
  • Episode 13