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
3 May 199331 years ago VHS Official release date for volumes one (1.1 and 1.2) and two (1.3 and 1.4) of the VHS release of series one of Survivors by BBC Enterprises
3 May 20222 years ago Cast Death of June Brown (Susan, Manhunt, S3) aged 95
4 May 20195 years ago Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2019 location trip visited locations on the Severn Valley Railway
4 May 197747 years ago TelevisionSparks, the eighth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.22m viewers
4 May 199826 years ago VHS Official release date for volumes one (1.1 and 1.2) and two (1.3 and 1.4) of the VHS release of series one of Survivors by Sovereign Video
5 May 20195 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2019 location trip visited locations in Monsal Dale and at Ilam
5 May 197648 years ago TelevisionThe Witch, the sixth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.83m viewers
7 May 197549 years ago TelevisionCorn Dolly, the fourth episode of series one, broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.08m viewers
Later this month in Survivors
11 May 197747 years ago TelevisionThe Enemy, the ninth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 6.31m viewers
12 May 197648 years ago TelevisionA Friend in Need, the seventh episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.28m viewers
13 May 193292 years ago Cast Birth of Terry Scully (Vic Thatcher, S1)
14 May 197549 years ago TelevisionGone to the Angels, the fifth episode of series one, broadcast on BBC1 and was seen by 8.08m viewers
15 May 194777 years ago Cast Birth of Lucy Fleming (Jenny Richards)
18 May 197747 years ago TelevisionThe Last Laugh, the tenth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 6.31m viewers
18 May 192995 years ago Cast Birth of John Abineri (Hubert Goss)
19 May 197648 years ago TelevisionBy Bread Alone, the eighth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 10.66m viewers
20 May 1915109 years ago Cast Birthday of Peter Copley (Dr Bronson, The Fourth Horseman)
21 May 197549 years ago TelevisionGarland's War, the sixth episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 6.51m viewers
21 May 197648 years ago Production OB Recording begins at Callow Hill on the series two episode Over the Hills
22 May 200816 years ago Cast Death of Hana-Maria Pravda (Emma Cohen, S1), aged 92
Cite this web page
02 May 2024202121 February
Cross, R. (2021). 'Survivors: on this day,' [online] Survivors: A World Away, 21 February. Available at: https://www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk/a-world-away/Survivors_on_this_day.php. Accessed on: 02 May 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
Hampton Court features in Antiques Road Trip
HAMPTON COURT IN Herefordshire, a key filming location in the first series of Survivors, features in a new episode of the long-running BBC auction show Antiques Road Trip.
SEVERAL MEMORABLE SERIES ONE Survivors' filming locations inside Hampton Court are now accessible to visitors to the Herefordshire stately home and its grounds, as part of a series of welcome enhancements to the popular Herefordshire tourist attraction.
