![]() This BBC series, produced by Richard Bates and directed by Graham Theakston and Christopher Barry, is blessedly free of the noisy razzle-dazzle that has become the fashion in science-fiction movies. Several of the younger rebels are selected to go to the annual neighborhood athletic games, in hopes of winning and being taken into the City of Gold, where they can spy out the Tripods' weaknesses. ![]() The docile results turn out to be fat and happy.īut a rebellious band of humans have established a stronghold in the White Mountains, from which they are plotting to defeat the Tripods and restore free will and a sense of wonder to humankind. ![]() These creatures of artificial intelligence gone amok maintain their control by doing a sort of brainwashing operation on all human children when the children reach the age of 16. It's the year 2090, 100 years after the Tripod invasion of earth. ![]() ![]() IF you didn't watch the adaptation of the first book of ''Tripods,'' John Christopher's science-fiction trilogy, which was shown on Channel 13 earlier this year, you can play catch-up at 8:30 tonight with the first of 12 half-hour shows in Alick Rowe's adaptation of the second book, ''The City of Gold and Lead.'' If you did watch, here's more of the same. ![]()
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