Carolyn Seymour pictured on the cover of her In Conversation release

News and updates

All of the latest news from the world of Survivors, including cast appearances on screen, on audio and on stage, new projects, new archival sources, interviews and other developments.

Hampton Court in Herefordshire, key series one Survivors filming location

Finding locations

Details of the very latest discoveries from across the UK, and news of the continuing search for the remaining filming locations used across three series of the show still to be tracked down.

Carolyn Seymour and Ian McCulloch pictured in first series Survivors episode Starvation

Survivors: The Basics

A one-stop beginner's guide that takes you through every aspect of the Survivors phenomenon, including a three series episode guide and details of TV screenings and VHS and DVD releases.

The cast of the 2008-2010 BBC remake of Survivors

Survivors remake

In 2008, the BBC broadcast a 'reimagining' of Survivors that reset the pandemic in the present day. Find out more about the two series Survivors remake and its journey to the small screen.

A detail from the front cover of the hardback edition of Terry Nation's 1976 Survivors novel

Survivors in print

An exploration of Survivors in print, including Terry Nation's 1976 novelisation, follow-up story Genesis of a Hero by 'John Eyers', guidebooks to the series, and academic studies of the show.

Carolyn Seymour, Ian McCulloch, Lucy Fleming and Neve McIntosh in the Big Finish studio

Survivors: on audio

Audio drama specialists Big Finish launched the first of nine boxsets of new Survivors audio dramas in 2013, set at the time of the 1970s series and featuring original cast members.

Focus on: Big Finish and the Survivors: New Dawn audio boxsets

BACK IN JULY 2021 Big Finish announced the release of the first three-story boxset in its new Survivors: New Dawn series. These new audio dramas would be set some two decades after The Death.

The first new boxset would be released in November 2021 and a second would follow in February 2022. The series was sufficiently popular for Survivors: New Dawn 3 to be commissioned and released on April 2023, with closing instalment Survivors: New Dawn 4 following on September 2023. This fourth New Dawn release brought to an end Big Finish's Survivors audio releases.

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Big Finish and the Survivors: New Dawn audio boxsets

Recalling the history of Survivors

The next seven days in Survivors

 30 October 199926 years ago
 Location trip A organised fan trip visited the filming locations for Lights of London, including the London Underground, The Oval cricket ground, BBC TV Centre and Hanwell train station

 31 October 1922103 years ago
 Cast Birth of Talfyrn Thomas (Tom Price, S1)

 3 November 201510 years ago
 Audio Release of the third series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures

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Richard Heffer and Julie Neubert at Hampton Court Castle, Herefordshire, 20 April 2025

Survivors first series - fiftieth anniversary locations trip

Richard Heffer (Garland) and Julie Neubert (Wendy) join a tour of Herefordshire filming locations

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