By Rich Cross Last updated on 09 June 2019, 09:59:07
Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors
The next seven days in Survivors
30 October 199922 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 192299 years ago Cast Birth of Talfyrn Thomas (Tom Price, S1)
Earlier this month in Survivors
1 October 194774 years ago Cast Birth of Carolyn Seymour (Abby Grant)
4 October 200417 years ago DVD Official release date for the second series Survivors DVD boxset on the DD Video label
6 October 200318 years ago DVD Official release date for the first series Survivors DVD boxset on the DD Video label
7 October 201110 years ago Cast Death of George Baker (Arthur Wormley, Genesis), aged 80
7 October 200813 years ago Cast Death of Peter Copley (Dr Bronson, The Fourth Horseman), aged 93
18 October 200813 years ago Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2008 location trip saw participants join an organised walk through the sealed railway tunnels on the Monsal Trail
19 October 200813 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2008 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
Coming up in Survivors
03 November 20156 years ago Audio Release of the third series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures
Cite this web page
24 October 2021202121 February
Cross, R. (2021). 'Survivors: on this day,' [online] Survivors: A World Away, 21 February. Available at: https://survivors-mad-dog.org.uk/a-world-away/Survivors_on_this_day.php. Accessed on: 24 October 2021.
Survivors is a 38-episode, three series British post-apocalyptic TV series, created by Terry Nation, and first shown on BBC 1 between 1975 and 1977
Two Survivors novel were published in the UK, USA and Italy in the seventies: Terry Nation's part-novelisation of the first TV series Survivors was published in 1976; with John Eyers' original follow-up Genesis of a Hero appearing the following year
A 12-episode, two series remake of Survivors was broadcast on BBC One between 2008 and 2010
A 36-episode, nine series run of new and original Survivors audio adventures, set in the time and place of the original programme, were released by Big Finish between 2014 and 2019
Terry Nation's Survivors novel was released as an audiobook, voiced by Carolyn Seymour, in 2014
Genesis of a Hero was reprinted and republished as a paperback and as a Kindle title in 2015
A sequel to Genesis of a Hero, entitled Survivors: Salvation, was published in February 2021
Sequel to 'Genesis of a Hero' published
AUTHOR JOHN EYERS has just published Survivors: Salvation, a long-awaited sequel to his 'cult classic' novel Survivors: Genesis of a Hero.
A BRAND NEW documentary on Survivors first aired on BBC4 on Tuesday 5 December 2006 at 8.30pm as part of a series of programmes celebrating the history of British literary and small-screen science fiction.
