Survivors: on this day

By Rich Cross Last updated on 17 October 2026, 13:12:24

Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors

The next seven days in Survivors

18 October 200818 years ago
Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2008 location trip saw participants join an organised walk through the sealed railway tunnels on the Monsal Trail

19 October 200818 years ago
Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2008 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale

Earlier this month in Survivors

1 October 194779 years ago
Cast Birth of Carolyn Seymour (Abby Grant)

4 October 200422 years ago
DVD Official release date for the second series Survivors DVD boxset on the DD Video label

6 October 200323 years ago
DVD Official release date for the first series Survivors DVD boxset on the DD Video label

7 October 201115 years ago
Cast Death of George Baker (Arthur Wormley, Genesis), aged 80

7 October 200818 years ago
Cast Death of Peter Copley (Dr Bronson, The Fourth Horseman), aged 93

Later this month in Survivors

30 October 199927 years ago
Location trip A organised fan trip visited the filming locations for Lights of London, including the London Underground, The Oval cricket ground, BBC TV Centre and Hanwell train station

31 October 1922104 years ago
Cast Birth of Talfyrn Thomas (Tom Price, S1)

Coming up in Survivors

03 November 201511 years ago
Audio Release of the third series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures

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17 October 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: 17 October 2026.

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Terry Nation's Survivors

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

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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.

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