I remember a chilling episode about smallpox. Due to audience complaints about this, the production crew replaced the cameras.The principal characters of Abby, Greg, Jenny and Tom Price were retained, but new elements were introduced, including a subplot about the origins of the virus and a stronger focus on action. Filming at Hampton Court.
Survivors was one of the earliest programmes to be shot on tape for whole episodes made on location. Ian McCulloch was cast as Peter West in Zombie (1979) on the strength of his performance in Survivors (1975 - 1977) which was a huge hit in Italy where it was known as I Sopravvissuti.
Series One The Fourth … ISCRIVITI E GUARDA GRATIS IN HD. Events in this series take place after "Something of Value".
Brecon Beacons, Powys, Wales, UK Is this interesting? Finally, the arrival of Norwegian survivors brings the possibility of re-establishing worldwide contact and technology. The show took pains to make sure these characters represented a broader spread of racial and social backgrounds.
""They are nearly all in glass mounts as I suspect they were used in BBC technical presentations, which would have toured all over the country. The programme ran for three series and 38 episodes (series 1 and 2 comprised 13 episodes each, the third series just 12; budget cuts and technical problems reduced the planned last double episode to a single, as some scenes were lost during shooting).
1975-1979. Il mondo è stato colpito da un’epidemia dovuta ad un virus altamente letale, a cui è scampato soltanto l’1% dell’intera popolazione. IMDB: 8.1/10 1512 votes.
Two cameras were used, but one of them had a recurrent fault, which shows as multiple reflections on the left hand side of pictures in many scenes, particularly visible in series 3. Unseen series one location shots THREE BEHIND-THE-SCENES IMAGES taken during location filming on series one of Survivors at Hampton Court, Herefordshire in the early summer of 1975 have been saved from being dumped in landfill by the … It's one of those that really stick in the memory and help "make" the atmosphere of the series. Thanks to you all! Many of the episodes from the original 1970's series of Survivors were filmed in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. For many years I've wanted to get the theme music on CD. We think that they originally came from the BBC Engineering Information Department (EID) which was one of the many casualties of the Birt and post-Birt era. Fave episode is Mad Dog which I still remember vividly as a kid giving me complete mightmares for weeks afterwards! Hello everyone, I love the original Survivors - it's one of my all time favourite shows (VERY disappointed with the new one). The third series juxtaposes the personal story arc of the search for Greg with a wider narrative of society appearing to re-establish itself, with federated communities, market bartering and rudimentary railway travel, based on using the steam locomotives preserved on "Revelation" and "Exodus" depict events happening in parallel with the early episodes of the first TV series, as the Death first takes hold and wipes out much of the UK's population. Strange that in the 70's when it was unusual for something to NOT be repeated by the BBC that Survivors along with Doomwatch never got a single repeat and yet they both retained their fans enough to be remade. 8.1.
It's one of those that really stick in the memory and help "make" the atmosphere of the series. Does anyone know if it's ever appeared on any original TV theme compilations?
If you’d like to join in, please sign in or register. What did you think of the recent BBC 'remake' Events in this box-set happen after the end of the third TV series. Events in this box-set take place between the episodes of the second TV series.