By Rich Cross Last updated on 09 June 2019, 09:59:07
Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors
This day in Survivors
25 April 200321 years ago Location trip The first day of the Mad Dog 2003 location trip visited locations in Ilam and the village of Eyam
The next seven days in Survivors
26 April 200321 years ago Location trip The second day of the Mad Dog 2003 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
27 April 197747 years ago TelevisionThe Peacemaker, the seventh episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 5.10m viewers
27 April 199826 years ago Television The transmission of Power, the closing episode of series three, brings to an end the final run of Survivors on UK Gold, a cable and satellite TV station. UK Gold had broadcast complete runs of Survivors several times since it first screened The Fourth Horseman in 1993
27 April 20231 year ago Audio Release of Survivors: New Dawn 3, a new and original three-part audio drama, produced by Big Finish, set more than two decades on from The Death
28 April 197648 years ago TelevisionFace of the Tiger, the fifth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 9.04m viewers
29 April 200618 years ago Location trip The Mad Dog 2006 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
30 April 197549 years ago TelevisionGone Away, the third episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 on seen by 9.39m viewers
Earlier this month in Survivors
1 April 193193 years ago Cast Birth of George Baker (Arthur Wormley, Genesis)
2 April 197549 years ago Production Recording of the studio sequences for Gone to the Angels, the firth episode of series one, at BBC TV Centre in London
6 April 197747 years ago TelevisionMad Dog, the fourth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.42m viewers
6 April 20213 years ago Audio Big Finish release Carolyn Seymour: in conversation, a two-hour audio interview, hosted by Toby Hadoke, in which the actress reflects on her life and career
7 April 197648 years ago TelevisionGreater Love, the second episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.53m viewers
12 April 197549 years ago Production Recording of the studio sequences for Garland's War, the sixth episode of series one, at BBC TV Centre in London
13 April 197747 years ago TelevisionBridgehead, the fifth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 8.23m viewers
14 April 197648 years ago TelevisionLights of London Part 1, the third episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 10.4m viewers
16 April 197549 years ago TelevisionThe Fourth Horseman, the opening episode of series one, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 7.07m viewers
17 April 200123 years ago Cast Death of Terry Scully (Vic Thatcher, S1), aged 68
20 April 197747 years ago TelevisionReunion, the sixth episode of series three, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 6.92m viewers
21 April 197648 years ago TelevisionLights of London Part 2, the fourth episode of series two, was broadcast on BBC1 and seen by 6.67m viewers
Cite this web page
25 April 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: 25 April 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
Terry Nation audiobook
AN AUDIO-BOOK EDITION of cultural historian Alwyn Turner's acclaimed Terry Nation: The Man Who Invented the Daleks has been released by Fantom Publishing.
Big Finish announce two new Survivors audio boxsets
BIG FINISH HAVE announced the release of two new boxsets of original full-cast Survivors audio adventures - starring Carolyn Seymour and Lucy Fleming - to be called New Dawn.
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.
