By Rich Cross Last updated on 06 November 2026, 16:13:05
Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors
Earlier this month in Survivors
3 November 201511 years ago Audio Release of the third series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures
4 November 198244 years ago Cast Death of Talfyrn Thomas (Tom Price, S1), aged 60
Later this month in Survivors
14 November 200521 years ago DVD Official release date for the third series Survivors DVD boxset on the DD Home Entertainment (DDHE) label
18 November 193987 years ago Cast Birth of Ian McCulloch (Greg Preston)
21 November 201610 years ago Audio Release of the fifth series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures
25 November 20215 years ago Audio Release of Survivors: New Dawn 1, a new and original three-part audio drama, produced by Big Finish, set two decades on from The Death
25 November 20215 years ago Audio Release of Survivors: Ghosts and Demons, a new and original audiobook, narrated by Carolyn Seymour, and produced by Big Finish, set during Survivors' first series
28 November 20179 years ago Audio Release of the seventh series of original Big Finish Survivors audio adventures
Coming up in Survivors
04 December 201115 years ago Location trip The Mad Dog 2011 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
06 December 197452 years ago Production Anthony Isaac's Survivors theme music, used for the opening and closing credits of each episode, recorded by a twenty-piece orchestra
Cite this web page
06 November 2026202510 April
Cross, R. (2025). 'Survivors: on this day,' [online] Survivors: A World Away, 10 April. Available at: https://www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk/a-world-away/Survivors_on_this_day.php. Accessed on: 06 November 2026.
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
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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.
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.
