By Rich Cross Last updated on 09 June 2019, 09:59:07
Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors
This day in Survivors
29 July 200021 years ago Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2000 location trip visited locations on the Severn Valley Railway
The next seven days in Survivors
30 July 200021 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2000 location trip visited location in Monsal Dale and at Ilam
4 August 200516 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.
Earlier this month in Survivors
2 July 197546 years ago TelevisionRevenge, the eleventh episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.83m viewers
6 July 199823 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 197546 years ago TelevisionSomething of Value, the twelfth episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.43m viewers
16 July 197546 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
08 August 193091 years ago Crew Birth of Terry Nation, creator of Survivors, and scriptwriter of seven series one episodes
30 August 200120 years ago Location trip In the midst of a foot-and-mouth crisis, the first of a four day of a Survivors location trip visited Hampton Loade station, the bridge near the Country Park Halt, and Highley station on the Severn Valley Railway
31 August 200120 years ago Location trip The second day of the latest Survivors location trip toured sites near to The Vauld and visited Hampton Court, Withington Garden Centre (Meadow Market) and Michaelchurch Court
Cite this web page
29 July 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: 29 July 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
Survivors on Britbox
ALL THREE SERIES of Survivors are available to stream, and to download for offline viewing, from the subscription-based and ad-free Britbox service.
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.
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.
