{"id":5448,"date":"2024-09-07T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T10:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2025-02-22T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:08:42","slug":"coming-in-2025-new-book-revisits-survivors-classic-first-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2024\/09\/07\/coming-in-2025-new-book-revisits-survivors-classic-first-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming in 2025: new book revisits Survivors classic first series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SCHEDULED FOR PUBLICATION in 2025, to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the broadcast of the first series of Survivors <\/em>on BBC1, a new book by the author of this site will provide a deep-dive into the show’s first thirteen episodes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survivors: the classic post-apocalyptic BBC series \/ Series one \/ 1975<\/em> will blend updated content by the author from the 2005 book The End of the World? The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Survivors<\/em> with new and original material – based on an additional two decades of research and writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First broadcast in April 1975 on BBC1, Survivors <\/em>presented viewers with the starkest premise imaginable: that only a tiny number of people had emerged unscathed from a deadly global pandemic, into a devastated, dangerous and unrecognisable world. Created by Terry Nation, the first thirteen episodes of Survivors <\/em>explored how these few individuals band together to confront the daunting challenges of survival.

Featuring new interviews, original source material and previously unpublished photographs, this is a comprehensive, meticulous study of the first series of the exemplary post-apocalyptic BBC TV series from what\u2019s now celebrated as a golden era of British genre television.

Rich Cross has published widely on the themes of science fiction, dystopian and genre television, and has written about Survivors <\/em>for Action TV<\/em>, Cultbox, Obverse Books, SciFiNow<\/em>, Starburst <\/em>and Telos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

More information about the book – including details about how to purchase a copy – will be shared on this site as the publication date approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“It’s amazing to think that next year [2025] will mark fifty years since the first series of Survivors<\/em> was broadcast,” says Cross. “It seems like the ideal moment to revisit the contemporary themes and issues that inspired creator Terry Nation; and the ground-breaking way that the first series of Survivors <\/em>was made.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s also chance to to reflect afresh on the extraordinary characters that populate those first thirteen episodes, and the stories and situations that made that first series so compelling – alarming ‘what-if’ scenarios which still resonate with audiences some five decades later.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’d like to be kept up-to-date with the latest news about the book Survivors: the classic post-apocalyptic BBC series \/ Series one \/ 1975<\/em>, then get in touch<\/a> with this site to be sure of being amongst the first to know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich Cross’ most recent book on the series – Survivors: Mad Dog<\/em>, published in 2022 – is available to buy (in both print and electronic formats) from the Obverse Books<\/a> site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His most recent magazine feature on Survivors<\/em>, a four-page retrospective<\/a> celebrating the series’ status as a ‘certified classic’, appeared in the May 2024 edition of Starburst<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCHEDULED FOR PUBLICATION in 2025, to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the broadcast of the first series of Survivors on BBC1, a new book by the author of this site will provide a deep-dive into the show’s first thirteen episodes. Survivors: the classic post-apocalyptic BBC series \/ Series one \/ 1975 will blend updated … Continue reading “Coming in 2025: new book revisits Survivors classic first series”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-print","category-series-one"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-1pS","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\/5448","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5448"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5620,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Any and all profits from sales of the book will be donated to the international, independent medical organisation M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res<\/a> <\/em>(aka Doctors Without Borders) whose clinicians deliver vital, life-saving humanitarian aid in crisis situations and war zones across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n