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
29 May 199923 years ago Location trip The Mad Dog 1999 location trip visited locations in Monsal Dale and at Ilam
1 June 197745 years ago TelevisionLong Live the King, the eleventh episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 5.71m viewers
1 June 20139 years ago Cast Death of Lorna Lewis (Pet Simpson)
2 June 197646 years ago TelevisionParasites, the tenth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 9.29m viewers
2 June 20157 years ago Audio Release of the second series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures
3 June 200418 years ago DVD Lorna Lewis, Denis Lill, Pennant Roberts and Heather Wright are reunited at central London studio to record the ‘special features’ for the Survivors series two DVD release.
4 June 197547 years ago TelevisionStarvation, the seventh episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.48m viewers
Earlier this month in Survivors
3 May 199329 years ago VHS Official release date for volumes one (1.1 and 1.2) and two (1.3 and 1.4) of the VHS release of series one of Survivors by BBC Enterprises
3 May 2022This year Cast Death of June Brown (Susan, Manhunt, S3) aged 95
4 May 20193 years ago Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2019 location trip visited locations on the Severn Valley Railway
4 May 197745 years ago TelevisionSparks, the eighth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.22m viewers
4 May 199824 years ago VHS Official release date for volumes one (1.1 and 1.2) and two (1.3 and 1.4) of the VHS release of series one of Survivors by Sovereign Video
5 May 20193 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2019 location trip visited locations in Monsal Dale and at Ilam
5 May 197646 years ago TelevisionThe Witch, the sixth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.83m viewers
7 May 197547 years ago TelevisionCorn Dolly, the fourth episode of series one, broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.08m viewers
11 May 197745 years ago TelevisionThe Enemy, the ninth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 6.31m viewers
12 May 197646 years ago TelevisionA Friend in Need, the seventh episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.28m viewers
13 May 193290 years ago Cast Birth of Terry Scully (Vic Thatcher, S1)
14 May 197547 years ago TelevisionGone to the Angels, the fifth episode of series one, broadcast on BBC1 and was seen by 8.08m viewers
15 May 194775 years ago Cast Birth of Lucy Fleming (Jenny Richards)
Cite this web page
28 May 2022202121 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: 28 May 2022.
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
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
Terry Nation audiobook
AN AUDIO-BOOK EDITION of cultural historian Alwyn Turner's acclaimed Terry Nation: The Man Who Invented the Daleks has been released by Fantom Publishing.
Monsal Dale provides base for new episode of Countryfile
MONSAL DALE, THE key filming location for the third series Survivors episode Mad Dog, provides the 'centre of operations' for the 'White Peak' episode of Countryfile.
HAMPTON COURT IN Herefordshire, a key filming location in the first series of Survivors, features in a new episode of the long-running BBC auction show Antiques Road Trip.
