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: Myra Frances (Anne Tranter, Survivors) dies at 78

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 character of 'spoilt rich girl' Tranter first appeared in Survivors' second episode Genesis, when she flags down Greg's car on the main road next to a quarry. Wrapped in a fur coat, and with an immaculate appearance, her character makes an immediate impression.

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Myra Frances (Anne Tranter, Survivors) dies at 78

Recalling 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


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Latest addition:

The location where Jenny Richards first meets Tom Price in The Fourth Horseman - the first episode of Survivors - image one

News of the discovery of a long sought-after filming location from The Fourth Horseman

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