Carolyn Seymour pictured on the cover of her In Conversation release

News and updates

All of the latest news from the world of Survivors, including cast appearances on screen, on audio and on stage, new projects, new archival sources, interviews and other developments.

Hampton Court in Herefordshire, key series one Survivors filming location

Finding locations

Details of the very latest discoveries from across the UK, and news of the continuing search for the remaining filming locations used across three series of the show still to be tracked down.

Carolyn Seymour and Ian McCulloch pictured in first series Survivors episode Starvation

Survivors: The Basics

A one-stop beginner's guide that takes you through every aspect of the Survivors phenomenon, including a three series episode guide and details of TV screenings and VHS and DVD releases.

The cast of the 2008-2010 BBC remake of Survivors

Survivors remake

In 2008, the BBC broadcast a 'reimagining' of Survivors that reset the pandemic in the present day. Find out more about the two series Survivors remake and its journey to the small screen.

A detail from the front cover of the hardback edition of Terry Nation's 1976 Survivors novel

Survivors in print

An exploration of Survivors in print, including Terry Nation's 1976 novelisation, follow-up story Genesis of a Hero by 'John Eyers', guidebooks to the series, and academic studies of the show.

Carolyn Seymour, Ian McCulloch, Lucy Fleming and Neve McIntosh in the Big Finish studio

Survivors: on audio

Audio drama specialists Big Finish launched the first of nine boxsets of new Survivors audio dramas in 2013, set at the time of the 1970s series and featuring original cast members.

Focus on: 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.

The Monsal Dale viaduct, and sites across the Monsal Valley, provided evocative locations for the third series' Survivors episode Mad Dog - which was recorded entirely on location by the BBC's Outside Broadcast (OB) camera unit in 1977 in Monsal Dale, above the Dovedale Valley near Ilam and on the Severn Valley Railway.

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Plan to reinstate the Monsal railway hits buffers

Recalling the history of Survivors

The next seven days in Survivors

 16 June 197649 years ago
 Television Over the Hills, the twelfth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.84m viewers

 18 June 197550 years ago
 Television Law and Order, the ninth episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.38m viewers

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Richard Heffer and Julie Neubert at Hampton Court Castle, Herefordshire, 20 April 2025

Survivors first series - fiftieth anniversary locations trip

Richard Heffer (Garland) and Julie Neubert (Wendy) join a tour of Herefordshire filming locations

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