By Rich Cross Last updated on 27 July 2026, 10:39:30
Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors
The next seven days in Survivors
29 July 200026 years ago Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2000 location trip visited locations on the Severn Valley Railway
30 July 200026 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2000 location trip visited location in Monsal Dale and at Ilam
Earlier this month in Survivors
1 July 200422 years ago Publication The Survivors: A World Away web site launched
2 July 197551 years ago TelevisionRevenge, the eleventh episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.83m viewers
6 July 199828 years ago VHS Official release date for volumes five (1.9 and 1.10) and six (1.11, 1.12 and 1.13) of the VHS release of series one of Survivors by Sovereign Video
9 July 197551 years ago TelevisionSomething of Value, the twelfth episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.43m viewers
16 July 197551 years ago TelevisionA Beginning, the thirteenth and final episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.58m viewers
Coming up in Survivors
04 August 200521 years ago DVD Tristan de Vere Cole, Peter Jefferies, Lucy Fleming, Morris Perry and Stephen Dudley are reunited at a central London studio to record the 'special features' for the Survivors series three DVD release.
08 August 193096 years ago Crew Birth of Terry Nation, creator of Survivors, and scriptwriter of seven series one episodes
11 August 199630 years ago Television The latest run of Survivors on the cable and satellite channel UK Gold begins with transmission of The Fourth Horseman in a 9am Sunday slot - which immediately moved to Tuesday mornings for the screening of second episode Genesis
Cite this web page
27 July 2026202510 April
Cross, R. (2025). 'Survivors: on this day,' [online] Survivors: A World Away, 10 April. Available at: https://survivors-mad-dog.org.uk/a-world-away/Survivors_on_this_day.php. Accessed on: 27 July 2026.
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 novels 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
A six-episode original audio drama, Survivors: New Dawn, set two decades on from The Death was released in two three story box sets by Big Finish in November 2021 and February 2022
Cult of... Survivors
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.
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.
BRITBOX, THE STREAMING archive television platform that, in September 2020, made all three series of Survivors available to watch online through its subscription service, has now withdrawn the programme from its collection.
