{"id":1610,"date":"2018-04-27T18:08:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T17:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2018-01-13T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T10:19:21","slug":"twenty-years-today-since-survivors-was-last-shown-on-british-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/twenty-years-today-since-survivors-was-last-shown-on-british-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years today since Survivors was last shown on British TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Basics_Satellite.jpg?resize=520%2C207&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Terry Nation&#039;s Survivors - on satellite and cable TV in the 1990s\" width=\"520\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1735\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>TODAY MARKS THE twentieth anniversary of\u00a0<em>Survivors<\/em>&#8216;\u00a0last appearance on British TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 1993,\u00a0the entire three-series run of <em>Survivors<\/em>\u00a0enjoyed several repeat showings on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/a-world-away\/Basics_Satellite.shtml\">satellite-cable channel UK Gold<\/a>. As the BBC never ran repeats of <em>Survivors<\/em>, this was\u00a0the first time that the programme had been seen\u00a0on British television since\u00a0<em>Survivors<\/em>&#8216; original transmission on BBC 1 between 1975 and 1977.<\/p>\n<p>The final transmission on UK Gold concluded, with the broadcast of series three finale &#8220;Power&#8221;, \u00a0shortly after midnight on Monday 27 April 1998. This concluding episode was preceded by an episode of the satirical puppet show\u00a0<em>Spitting Image\u00a0<\/em>and followed by an instalment of crime drama\u00a0<em>The Equalizer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The first series of <em>Survivors<\/em> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/a-world-away\/Basics_BBCWorldwide.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released on VHS cassette by BBC Video<\/a> the same year that the UK Gold transmissions began, and again by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/a-world-away\/Basics_Sovereign.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sovereign Video<\/a> in 1998, before series one secured its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/a-world-away\/Basics_DVD_One.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first DVD release<\/a> (and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/a-world-away\/Basics_DDHE_VHS.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">third VHS release<\/a>) courtesy of DD Video in 2003.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1611\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/TV_and_Satellite_Week_26_April_1997.jpg?resize=840%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TV and Satellite Week - 26 April 1997\" width=\"840\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY MARKS THE twentieth anniversary of\u00a0Survivors&#8216;\u00a0last appearance on British TV. Beginning in 1993,\u00a0the entire three-series run of Survivors\u00a0enjoyed several repeat showings on the\u00a0satellite-cable channel UK Gold. As the BBC never ran repeats of Survivors, this was\u00a0the first time that the programme had been seen\u00a0on British television since\u00a0Survivors&#8216; original transmission on BBC 1 between 1975 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/twenty-years-today-since-survivors-was-last-shown-on-british-tv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twenty years today since Survivors was last shown on British TV&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-tv","category-post-apocalyptic-tv","category-series-three"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-pY","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}