The BBC adapted novels such as The White Mountains novels , under the name The Tripods ( 1984–85 ) but it remained unfinished .
The BBC adapted novels such as The Day of the Triffids ( 1981 ) , The Invisible Man ( 1984 ) , and The Nightmare Man ( 1981 , from the novel Child of the Vodyanoi ) , also beginning an aborted adaptation of The White Mountains novels , under the name The Tripods ( 1984–85 ) .
Science fiction on television