By Rich Cross Last updated on 26 April 2025, 15:01:15
Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors
This day in Survivors
26 April 200322 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2003 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
The next seven days in Survivors
27 April 197748 years ago TelevisionThe Peacemaker, the seventh episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 5.10m viewers
27 April 199827 years ago Television The transmission of Power, the closing episode of series three, brings to an end the final run of Survivors on UK Gold, a cable and satellite TV station. UK Gold had broadcast complete runs of Survivors several times since it first screened The Fourth Horseman in 1993
27 April 20232 years ago Audio Release of Survivors: New Dawn 3, a new and original three-part audio drama, produced by Big Finish, set more than two decades on from The Death
28 April 197649 years ago TelevisionFace of the Tiger, the fifth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 9.04m viewers
29 April 200619 years ago Location trip The Mad Dog 2006 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
30 April 197550 years ago TelevisionGone Away, the third episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 on seen by 9.39m viewers
2 May 198738 years ago Cast Death of Michael Gover (Arthur Russell), aged 73
3 May 199332 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 20223 years ago Cast Death of June Brown (Susan, Manhunt, S3) aged 95
Earlier this month in Survivors
1 April 193194 years ago Cast Birth of George Baker (Arthur Wormley, Genesis)
2 April 197550 years ago Production Recording of the studio sequences for Gone to the Angels, the firth episode of series one, at BBC TV Centre in London
6 April 197748 years ago TelevisionMad Dog, the fourth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.42m viewers
6 April 20214 years ago Audio Big Finish release Carolyn Seymour: in conversation, a two-hour audio interview, hosted by Toby Hadoke, in which the actress reflects on her life and career
7 April 197649 years ago TelevisionGreater Love, the second episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.53m viewers
12 April 197550 years ago Production Recording of the studio sequences for Garland's War, the sixth episode of series one, at BBC TV Centre in London
13 April 197748 years ago TelevisionBridgehead, the fifth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.23m viewers
13 April 194184 years ago Cast Birth of Chris Tranchell (Paul Pitman)
14 April 197649 years ago TelevisionLights of London Part 1, the third episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 10.4m viewers
16 April 197550 years ago TelevisionThe Fourth Horseman, the opening episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.07m viewers
Cite this web page
26 April 2025202510 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: 26 April 2025.
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
Monsal Dale and Perfect Pub Walks
THE FIRST EPISODE of the new Channel 4 series Perfect Pub Walks with Bill Bailey visits several of the key Monsal Dale locations seen in the third series Survivors episode Mad Dog.
A BID TO draw up plans to reinstate the rail connection between Bakewell and Buxton - which could have led to trains running across the Monsal Dale viaduct once again - has failed to attract government backing.
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.
