By Rich Cross Last updated on 19 January 2026, 12:48:10
Recalling key dates in the history of Survivors
Earlier this month in Survivors
6 January 197551 years ago Production Location filming begins in Herefordshire, shooting scenes for the first six episodes of the first series of Survivors
Later this month in Survivors
27 January 200719 years ago Location trip The Mad Dog 2007 location trip visited locations at Monsal Dale
29 January 1916110 years ago Cast Birth of Hana-Maria Pravda (Emma Cohen, S1)
Coming up in Survivors
07 February 199432 years ago VHS Official release date for volumes five (1.9 and 1.10) and six (1.11, 1.12 and 1.13) of the VHS release of series one of Survivors by BBC Enterprises
10 February 20224 years ago Audio Release of Survivors: New Dawn 2, a new and original three-part audio drama, released by Big Finish, set two decades on from The Death
13 February 201511 years ago Cast Death of Hugh Walters (Vic Thatcher, S1), aged 75
14 February 20215 years ago PublicationSurvivors: Salvation, the sequel to the novel Genesis of a Hero, both written by Peter Hill (pen name, John Eyers) published in paperback format
17 February 20224 years ago Publication Publication of an Obverse Books Silver Archive scrutinising the series three episode Mad Dog, written by the editor of this site
19 February 197551 years ago Production Recording of the studio sequences for The Fourth Horseman, the opening episode of series one, at BBC TV Centre in London
25 February 197650 years ago Production Recording of the studio sequences for Lights of London Part 1, the third episode of series two, at BBC TV Centre in London
Cite this web page
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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: 19 January 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
Monsal Dale and Perfect Pub Walks
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.
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 BID TO draw up plans to reinstate the rail connection between Bakewell and Buxton - which could have led to trains running across the Monsal Dale viaduct once again - has failed to attract government backing.
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.
