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Subject: THE TRIPODS (based on John Christopher)
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 13:13:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 13:13:59 1985
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                                THE TRIPODS
                   A television review by Mark R. Leeper

     It is England some 100 years in the future, but it might be 100 years
in the past for the level of technology.  Things seem frozen in time and the
only thing around that seems beyond the 19th Century are the alien tripods,
maybe forty or fifty feet high, towering over the landscape.  As each person
in the village becomes an adult, a strange metallic framework is embedded
into the top of his or her head that makes him or her a happy and docile
worker.

     Nothing really original here.  The series is based on the books THE
WHITE MOUNTAINS, THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD, and THE POOL OF FIRE by John
Christopher.  The trilogy will be told in 25 half-hour episodes.  Based on
an insufficient sample, I would say the acting is good and the special
effects adequate.  I have a used copy of THE WHITE MOUNTAINS and the
previous owner pencilled in "Boy Scout stuff" on the first page.  He was
probably right, but the same could be said of the STAR WAS novel.  That was
not too bad as a film.  The series seems worth watching.  Watch for it on
PBS stations.

					Mark R. Leeper
					...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper