The BEST episodes of The Tripods season 1
Every episode of The Tripods season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Tripods season 1!
Set in the year 2089, huge machines known as Tripods have taken over the Earth. Controlling humans with a 'cap' (a mind control device attached to the head at the age of fourteen) which erases imagination, curiosity and independent thought, mankind now lives without technology in a rural/medieval existence. Cousins Will and Henry Parker, only a year away from being 'capped', hear of a place where free (un-capped) men live and fight the Tripods. Their travels take them from their home in England to France where they meet Jean-Paul 'Beanpole' Deliet who joins them on their journey to the white mountains of the Alps, home of the free men.
#1 - France - September, 2089 A.D. (1)
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1984
The Tripods strategy is revealed when a homing bug is found in Will. The device is removed, but it´s a bloody accomplishment and he is left very weak. Now they are trapped in a tunnel.
#2 - France - October, 2089 A.D. (2)
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1984
The boys are caught and put on trial for stealing bread, and Will again faces the possibility of capping. Again they escape, but get lost and end up in Tripod country.
#3 - Chateau Ricordeau, France - July 2089 A.D. (2)
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1984
Will and Eloise´s relationship blossoms into love. This becomes a problem, as he must choose between her and continuing on to the White Mountains.
#4 - Chateau Ricordeau, France - August 2089 A.D. (1)
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1984
Will stays behind as Henry and Beanpole leave to continue the quest. Will discovered that Eloise has been capped.
#5 - A Village in England - July, 2089 A.D.
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1984
The story begins with the capping of Jack, one of Will Parker's friends. Will's community looks to be living in the 1800s as there are no machines or electrical devices, although Tripods are commonplace. In preparing for the capping of Jack, Will and Henry deliver food to vagrants which are people whose capping didn't go well. Living among them is Ozymandias who reveals to Will the secret of the White Mountains where men live free. Jack is capped, and returns to the village as a controlled mind. Will and Henry start their voyage to the White Mountains.
#6 - The White Mountains - November, 2089 A.D.
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1984
A Tripod is destroyed. Racing towards the White Mountains, the black guards capture the boys and an interrogation begins.
#7 - Chateau Ricordeau, France - August 2089 A.D. (2)
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1984
Eloise is taken away to serve the Tripods will in a tournament. Will gives up on her and leaves to catch up with Henry and Beanpole, but is captured again by Tripods. The Tripods set him free to find his friends, but why?
#8 - France - July, 2089 A.D.
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1984
After escaping from prison with a new friend named Beanpole, Will and Henry travel to Paris, which is a ruined city inhabited by dangerous people.
#9 - France - October, 2089 A.D. (1)
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1984
Having left the Vichot family, the trio struggles to reach the White Mountains. They try to steal some food, but end up being chased into a forest by black guards.
#10 - Chateau Ricordeau, France - July 2089 A.D. (1)
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1984
Will becomes ill, and the three companions go into hiding at the Chateau Ricordeau. Will ends up in a romantic triangle with the daughter of a count named Eloise and the Duc de Sarlat.
#11 - France - September, 2089 A.D. (2)
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1984
Winter is coming, and Will wants to find the White Mountains soon, but Henry and Beanpole want to stay at with the Vichot family. However, Jeannie Vichot´s fiance is a black guard, and he´s checking the boys out.
#12 - England - July, 2089 A.D.
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1984
Two cousins, Will and Henry Parker, resist the capping process. Under the guidance of a man named Ozymandias, they flee their homes in search of other free humans who are hiding in the White Mountains.
#13 - The English Channel - July, 2089 A.D.
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1984
Will and Henry cross over to France, but they are captured upon their arrival and held for the Tripods to complete their capping.