By Rich Cross Last updated on 26 May 2026, 11:52:29
Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors
This day in Survivors
26 May 197650 years ago TelevisionThe Chosen, the ninth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 9.14m viewers
26 May 197650 years ago Production OB Recording wraps at Callow Hill on the series two episode Over the Hills
The next seven days in Survivors
29 May 199927 years ago Location trip The Mad Dog 1999 location trip visited locations in Monsal Dale and at Ilam
30 May 20224 years ago Audio Release of Survivors: Crusade, a new and original audiobook, narrated by Carolyn Seymour, and released by Big Finish, set during Survivors' first series
1 June 197749 years ago TelevisionLong Live the King, the eleventh episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 5.71m viewers
1 June 201313 years ago Cast Death of Lorna Lewis (Pet Simpson)
2 June 197650 years ago TelevisionParasites, the tenth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 9.29m viewers
2 June 201511 years ago Audio Release of the second series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures
Earlier this month in Survivors
2 May 198739 years ago Cast Death of Michael Gover (Arthur Russell), aged 73
3 May 199333 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 20224 years ago Cast Death of June Brown (Susan, Manhunt, S3) aged 95
4 May 20197 years ago Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2019 location trip visited locations on the Severn Valley Railway
4 May 197749 years ago TelevisionSparks, the eighth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.22m viewers
4 May 199828 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 20197 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2019 location trip visited locations in Monsal Dale and at Ilam
5 May 197650 years ago TelevisionThe Witch, the sixth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.83m viewers
7 May 197551 years ago TelevisionCorn Dolly, the fourth episode of series one, broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.08m viewers
11 May 197749 years ago TelevisionThe Enemy, the ninth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 6.31m viewers
12 May 197650 years ago TelevisionA Friend in Need, the seventh episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.28m viewers
13 May 193294 years ago Cast Birth of Terry Scully (Vic Thatcher, S1)
Cite this web page
26 May 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: 26 May 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 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
Plan to reinstate the Monsal railway hits buffers
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.
MYRA FRANCES, WHO played the role of Anne Tranter in two episodes of series one of Survivors, has died of cancer just weeks after her seventy-eighth birthday.
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 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.
