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Lively discussion on the books & TV series based on John Christopher's (Sam Youd) exciting Tripods trilogy. https://anchor.fm/the-tripodscast See also our new podcast @idontdoscifi.bsky.social
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Tripodscast @tripodscast.bsky.social · Dec 29
Join us on a journey as a first-time reader/viewer of The Tripods discusses the books, TV show, fandom, and author John Christopher. Along the way the podcast interviews the lead actors, and producer of the BBC TV series, and @sylepress.bsky.social listen at:
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Tripodscast - Exploring The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher. Episode 1: The White Mountains. Now a thrilling podcast series! Main image is a photo of three lead characters dressed like yokels from the 19th Century. They are teenage boys smiling towards the camera, left-right: Will Parker (John Shackley), Henry Parker (Jim Baker), Bean-Pole (Ceri Seel). Tripodscast - Exploring The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher. Episode 5 - Part One: BBC TV Adaptation: First Series - 'Giant Pork Pies!' Main image photo is 6 teens/young adults dressed in the worst/excessive 80s, chic/punk fashions. They look like rejects from an 80s Duran Duran music video. Tripodscast - Exploring The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher. Episode 7 Part One: The Cancellation! 'Bazooka'd' Image is BBC TV Centre with a giant red alien Tripod with large laser cannons on it's sides, looming besides it. There is smoke and fire beneath the Tripod. (A silver Tripod is behind in the distance). In the foreground is a smiling Jonathan Powell holding a smoking rocket launcher, and a fresh rocket of some kind in his other hand. Tripodscast - Exploring The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher. Episode 10: The Worlds of Sam Youd - 'Heaving bosoms and that kind of thing.' Photo of author Sam Youd, AKA John Christopher, creator of The Tripods Trilogy (amongst many others). He is looking happy, towards the camera.
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Tripodscast @tripodscast.bsky.social · 1d
If you're not aware, this is from the Makers of Tripodscast!
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I Don't Do Sci-Fi @idontdoscifi.bsky.social · 1d
Out now! Non-fan Dani watches #BBC TV's #DouglasAdams' #HitchHikersGuidetotheGalaxy Will she need a Babel Fish to understand it all? Does she know where her towel is? This episode our guest is Tim from @randomiserpod.bsky.social listen here: anchor.fm/iddsf youtube.com/@iddsf
I Don't Do Sci-Fi - the podcast series, Season 2, Episode 3: "One's never alone with a rubber duck." Dani watches The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.The main image is a montage and of people and things from the BBC TV adaptation of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. In the centre is a disgusted/perturbed man wearing a dressing gown over pyjamas - this is Arthur Dent. Beneath him are written the words: This is of course impossible. Surrounding him are various objects/creatures from The Hitch-Hikers Guide to Galaxy on TV.
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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 2d
We watched this the other night, and I recommend it!
Classy, informative, delightful – and short 😀
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Tripodscast @tripodscast.bsky.social · 10d
@charliefrancis.bsky.social has made a brilliant short film covering the #Tripods TV series, the @tripods40.bsky.social event, and talks with fans about their love of the show, and Chris Jones' wonderful book, 'All For Nothing?'
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When The Tripods Came Back
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I Don't Do Sci-Fi @idontdoscifi.bsky.social · 3d
NEW EPISODE! This Saturday (11/10/25): non-fan Dani watches #BBC TV version of #DouglasAdams #HitchHikersGuidetotheGalaxy for the 1st time. Our guest is Tim from @randomiserpod.bsky.social Don't forget to bring your #towel! #ArthurDent #Zaphod #FordPrefect #Trillian #Marvin #42
I Don't Do Sci-Fi - the podcast series, Season 2, Episode 3: "One's never alone with a rubber duck." Dani watches The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.The main image is a montage and of people and things from the BBC TV adaptation of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1981). In the centre is a disgusted/perteberd man wearing a dressing gown over pyjamas - this is Arthur Dent (played by Simon Jones). Beneath him are written the words: This is of course impossible. Surrounding him are: a yellow fish - the Babel Fish, an animal's head on a platter with an apple in it's mouth - this is the Dish of the Day, a tablet-like device - the titular Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (on it's screen are the words: Don't Panic!), and mouse, a weird-shaped glass with an exotic drink - this is a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (which drinking it is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a gold brick), a neon sign for 'Milliways' (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe), a multi-armed alien - a Jatravartid holding a few deodorant spray cans, the logo of Disaster Area - generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also the loudest noise of any kind at all, a mathematical symbol for infinity(?), two fried eggs on slices of bread, a roughly humanoid-shaped robot - Marvin the Paranoid Android (who has a brain the size of a planet - thinking down to our level gives him a headache!), a squadron of red, and green arrows in formation representing space fleets of the G'Guvuntts, and the Vl'Hurgs, the words 'forty' and 'two' in circluar/wooden tiles laid out like Scrabble, a sperm whale, and a pie-chart split into 3 equal looking sections: Thinkers, Doers, Middle Men. Finally, in large, friendly, pink letters: Don't Panic in the background of it all!
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Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters 🔞 @monstersattack.bsky.social · 7d
"THE TRIPODS" season 2, episode 5 (transmitted 05/10/85)

Via subterfuge, Will and Fritz gain entry to the city of the Tripods: a city with a lethal atmosphere and alien inhabitants...

A BBC adaptation of John Christopher's novel, "The City of Gold and Lead" (1968). #scifi #sciencefiction #1980s
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Tripodscast @tripodscast.bsky.social · 10d
@charliefrancis.bsky.social has made a brilliant short film covering the #Tripods TV series, the @tripods40.bsky.social event, and talks with fans about their love of the show, and Chris Jones' wonderful book, 'All For Nothing?'
youtu.be/ALSIxu-YqSc?...
When The Tripods Came Back
YouTube video by SciFiAssassin
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Michael Clark @clarkmichael.bsky.social · 23d
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TRIPODS40 @tripods40.bsky.social · 25d
41 years ago, The #Tripods arrived on BBC1. To celebrate, we've great pleasure in spreading the word that film-maker Charlie Francis has a treat in store. Coming October 1st, short film 'When The Tripods Came Back' takes a fond look at the Tripods40 celebrations.
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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 25d
They might be a bit tame by modern standards, but John Christopher wrote two post-apocalyptic trilogies for Young Adults which I loved as a teenager. The first two Tripods books were made in to a tv series by the BBC.

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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · Nov 24
In addition to ‘The Weirdstone of Brisingamen’ which a couple of people have already mentioned and which I loved reading at school; I’d also recommend two trilogies by John Christopher suitable for Young Adults:

The Tripods and Sword of the Spirits, both had a Puffin issue back in the day.
Three book covers by John Christopher in the Tripods series. The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, The Pool of Fire. Three book covers for a series by John Christopher. The Prince in Waiting, Beyond the Burning Lands and The Sword of the Spirits.
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John Isles @selsijohn.bsky.social · 26d
"We thank the #Tripods for Monday."
John in a video call. The virtual background is a giant 'Tripod' - alien machine towering over a circus tent. There are mountains in the background. Scene from The Tripods.
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Tripodscast @tripodscast.bsky.social · 26d
Happy (Actual) Anniversary to the #BBC TV adaptation of The #Tripods. First broadcast on Saturday 15th September 1984. Based on John Christopher/Sam Youd's original trilogy.
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Tripodscast - Exploring The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher. Episode 5 - Part One: BBC TV Adaptation: First Series - 'Giant Pork Pies!' Main image photo is 6 teens/young adults dressed in the worst/excessive 80s, chic/punk fashions. They look like rejects from an 80s Duran Duran music video.
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Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters 🔞 @monstersattack.bsky.social · 26d
"THE TRIPODS" season 1, episode 1 (15/09/84)

Through the ritual of "Capping", the Earth's population have been enslaved by alien Masters who traverse the planet in Tripod machines.

A BBC adaptation of John Christopher's novel, "The White Mountains" (1967). #scifi #sciencefiction #1980s #horrorfam
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Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters 🔞 @monstersattack.bsky.social · 26d
"THE TRIPODS" dominate the cover of "Radio Times"
(15th - 21st September, 1984).

#scifi #sciencefiction #1980s #horrorfam #RadioTimes #horror
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TRIPODS40 @tripods40.bsky.social · 27d
1 year ago today, cast, crew & fans gathered for Tripods40 to launch Tripods: All For Nothing book & to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the #BBC #scifi series The #Tripods based on ##JohnChristopher 's novels. Relive the day with these interviews youtube.com/@2089ad-a4n?...
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4 men stood in a line-up: Jim Baker, Ceri Seel, John Shackley, and Robin Hayter - the lead actors in the BBC TV Sci-Fi Series, The Tripods. They are looking happy after being guests at Tripods40.
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Steve Beresford @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 28d
The Tripods
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Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 29d
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?
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Tripodscast @tripodscast.bsky.social · Sep 11
Have you heard our third episode of the podcast where a first-time reader discusses the book?
#Tripods #JohnChristopher #YA #scifi

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Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters 🔞 @monstersattack.bsky.social · Sep 11
Choose 20 Science Fiction books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (20/20) 🛸 #booksky #scifi
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Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters 🔞 @monstersattack.bsky.social · Sep 11
Choose 20 Science Fiction books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (20/20) 🛸 #booksky #scifi
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I Don't Do Sci-Fi @idontdoscifi.bsky.social · Sep 8
Happy 59th Anniversary of the (US TV) debut of #StarTrek, #TOS as it's also known! First-time viewer Dani gives her thoughts!
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I Don't Do Sci-Fi @idontdoscifi.bsky.social · Feb 1
New episode! We initiate non #scifi fan Dani into Roddenberry's utopian 60s TV series, #startrek. Will her hailing frequencies be open to its charm & optimism? Or will she be raising shields? Joining us is guest @willhadcroft.bsky.social
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The text/logo for I Don't Do Sci-Fi - The Podcast Series, Season 2, Episode 2. A 2nd text box underneath says: Centuries beyond anything as crude as television. Dani watches Star Trek: The Original Series. The image behind these text boxes are a collage of co-host John Isles dressed as a 'Redshirt' (THE most unlucky colour uniform to wear in TOS) from Star Trek in 8 life-threatening, perilous situations based on original artwork by Ron Embleton (with thanks to Captain Scarlet for Redshirt workplace hazards guide): crawling out of a pile of rocks, sinking to the bottom of the sea, weighed down with chains, and with sharks circling, a pile of wooden crates tumbling down to land on him, tied to a tree in an alien jungle with a three-headed snake menacing him - an "Aldebaran serpent", falling out of the open door of a Starfleet shuttlecraft as it flys through space, about to be crushed between large metal spikes attached to walls closing in on him - he is pushing with all his might against them, knocked over by a tank - that's driving towards him, finally falling from a skyscraper to be squished on the ground far, far below (with laserbeams passing by him).
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Dr. Uncle Feared 🦊 🌈 @unclebeard1978.bsky.social · Sep 6
Scared me so much as a kid!
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Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters 🔞 @monstersattack.bsky.social · Sep 6
"THE TRIPODS" season 2, episode 1 (07/09/85)

Through a process known as "Capping", the Earth's population have been enslaved by alien Masters who traverse the planet in Tripod machines.

A BBC adaptation of John Christopher's novel, "The City of Gold and Lead" (1968). #scifi #sciencefiction #1980s
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Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters 🔞 @monstersattack.bsky.social · Sep 6
"THE TRIPODS" season 2, episode 1 (07/09/85)

Through a process known as "Capping", the Earth's population have been enslaved by alien Masters who traverse the planet in Tripod machines.

A BBC adaptation of John Christopher's novel, "The City of Gold and Lead" (1968). #scifi #sciencefiction #1980s
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Chris Gomm @gommster.bsky.social · Sep 2
Tripods!
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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Sep 2
It looks like it’s taking a step
The creepy hunting blind from the photo, zoomed in, where a log in the background makes it look like it’s walking
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Tim Howard @tmhwrd.bsky.social · Aug 11
The classic SFF kids need to read if they want to be true fans
The Little People by John Christopher. Cover image depicts a couple being tormented by whip-wielding Nazi leprechauns.
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Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social · Aug 2
It's time for another trip to The Library of Impossible Things.

This week I'm joined by the brilliant @selsijohn.bsky.social for a chat about Stone Circle, Deconstruction, fan films, conventions and a crossover in Sheffield!
But what object will he bring?

Find out in this week's episode!
3.09 John Isles tells his story
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Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · Jul 11
That 3rd series would've been amazing.
Fawlty Towers hotel, with Tripod in background.
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Tripodscast @tripodscast.bsky.social · Jul 5
We thank the #Tripods!
Screenshot from The Tripods (1984). A school teacher (John Scott Martin) dressed in an old-fashioned suit is stood at the front of a classroom. He's written 'July 5th 2089' in chalk on the blackboard next to him.
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TRIPODS40 @tripods40.bsky.social · Jul 5
Following up from The Tripods40 Event last year, a number of items of signed memorabilia is available for auction. All money raised will go to @centrepointuk.bsky.social
You can view the items, and bidding is only via Facebook in the comments here:

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Tripods for Centrepoint Memorabilia Auction. July 5th - 15th. Open for bidding. Facebook.com/tripodsbook In aid of Centrepoint - ending youth Ozymandias says... (guidelines for a happy auction) Be a good sort! Everybody involved – the cast, crew and organisers – are passionate not only about The Tripods, but about raising funds for an important cause. Let's all aim to make this a joyous experience.* Bidding • Place your bid in the Comments section • To increase your bid place a new comment • Editing of previous bids/comments is not permitted Beanpole's pro tip: make sure to view comments by 'Newest' All auctions run for 10 days – closing at approximately 9pm(UK) on 15 July 2025, or when bidding has reached its natural conclusion. Postage/delivery will be calculated after all auctions have closed, and is in addition to the bid price. All items are shipping from the UK. Moderator's word is final. However, if you feel a mistake has been made, please let us know in a courteous manner. We're all (free-thinking uncapped) humans afterall. * Offenders will be capped immediately
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