By Rich Cross Last updated on 23 December 2020, 12:11:29
Survivors DVD releases in Italy
ALL THREE SERIES of Survivors have
been released in two different DVD formats in Italy. In 1975 and 1976
Survivors received an extremely strong popular and critical reception
in Italy, and the show continues to enjoy a strong cult reputation in
the country. A full Italian DVD release of the series has therefore been
long anticipated.
When first shown in Italy, cuts were made to Survivors.
These new fully-complete versions have been re-dubbed into Italian (as
the show was when originally transmitted on Italian TV - in edited form),
but both releases also include the original English soundtrack. In 2009-2010 Survivors
was released both as a part-work, available in newsagents,
and as a three separate box-sets.
Italian Survivors DVD part-work
Covers of several of the Survivors Italian part-work DVDs released by Hobby & Work
A promo block for the Hobby & Work's partwork release of Survivors on DVD
Pages from one of the booklets accompanying Hobby & Work's partwork release of Survivors on DVD
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Cross, R. (2021). 'Survivors Italian DVD releases,' [online] Survivors: A World Away, 31 January. Available at: https://www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk/a-world-away/Basics_DVD_Italy.php. Accessed on: 11 September 2025.
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
Pete Wallbank
ILLUSTRATOR AND ARTIST Pete Wallbank designed the covers for the Sovereign Video VHS release of series one of Survivors.
BRITBOX, THE STREAMING archive television platform that, in September 2020, made all three series of Survivors available to watch online through its subscription service, has now withdrawn the programme from its collection.
Big Finish and the Survivors: New Dawn audio boxsets
BACK IN JULY 2021 Big Finish announced the release of the first three-story boxset in its new Survivors: New Dawn series. These new audio dramas would be set some two decades after The Death.
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.
