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
15 December 194084 years ago Crew Birth of Pennant Roberts, director on Survivors' first and second series
18 December 20186 years ago Audio Release of the eighth series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures
Earlier this month in Survivors
4 December 201113 years ago Location trip The Mad Dog 2011 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
6 December 197450 years ago Production Anthony Isaac's Survivors theme music, used for the opening and closing credits of each episode, recorded by a twenty-piece orchestra
11 December 201410 years ago Audio Release of the Big Finish audiobook version of Terry Nation's 1976 Survivors novel, voiced by Carolyn Seymour
Later this month in Survivors
25 December 198836 years ago Crew Death of Terence (Terry) Dudley, producer of Survivors and scriptwriter of series three opener Manhunt, aged 69
Coming up in Survivors
06 January 197550 years ago Production Location filming begins in Herefordshire, shooting scenes for the first six episodes of the first series of Survivors
27 January 200718 years ago Location trip The Mad Dog 2007 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
29 January 1916109 years ago Cast Birth of Hana-Maria Pravda (Emma Cohen, S1)
07 February 199431 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 BBC Enterprises
Cite this web page
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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: 12 December 2024.
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
Robert Fyfe (Phillipson, Gone Away) dies aged 90
ROBERT DOUGLAS FYFE, who appeared in the third episode of the first series of Survivors, has died at the age of 90.
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.
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.
