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
29 July 200024 years ago Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2000 location trip visited locations on the Severn Valley Railway
30 July 200024 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2000 location trip visited location in Monsal Dale and at Ilam
Earlier this month in Survivors
1 July 200420 years ago Publication The Survivors: A World Away web site launched
2 July 197549 years ago TelevisionRevenge, the eleventh episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.83m viewers
6 July 199826 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 197549 years ago TelevisionSomething of Value, the twelfth episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.43m viewers
16 July 197549 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
04 August 200519 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.
08 August 193094 years ago Crew Birth of Terry Nation, creator of Survivors, and scriptwriter of seven series one episodes
11 August 199628 years ago Television The latest run of Survivors on the cable and satellite channel UK Gold begins with transmission of The Fourth Horseman in a 9am Sunday slot - which immediately moved to Tuesday mornings for the screening of second episode Genesis
Cite this web page
27 July 2024202121 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: 27 July 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
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.
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.
