Ceri seel biography of christopher

This mids would-be SF epic is probably remembered more for its hype than anything delivered on-screen. Promotional Blue Peter items and a Radio Times front cover promised towering three-legged metal menaces from outer space, but the prosaic reality largely disappointed.

The starting concept seemed SF enough - in the world is ruled by tyrannical robots the 'Tripods'; these invaders keep the populace subservient by 'capping', a process that involves implanting metal control circuits into the skull of everyone at the age of

As John Christopher, author of the trilogy of source novels, conceded, beyond the initial set-up (which he confessed to having stolen, largely unconsciously, from a childhood reading of War of the Worlds) his adventure treks were inspired by classics like Coral Island.

s audiences expected post-Star Wars (US, ) hardware, but instead got something reminiscent of a wartime chase epic like The Silver Sword (BBC, ; ). With humanity, now deprived of technology, having