Survivors

Not to be confused with Survivor.

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Survivors was a British television programme created by Terry Nation and produced by the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerned the plight of a group of people who had survived an accidentally released plague that had killed nearly the entire population of the planet. The programme is usually described as falling into the science fiction genre, but a more appropriate description would be to call it apocalyptic fiction.

Related Topics:
British - Terry Nation - BBC - 1975 - 1977 - Plague - Science fiction - Apocalyptic fiction

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The programme ran for three series and 38 episodes, epitomising the pessimistic tendency of British science fiction as shown on British television beginning with Quatermass and the adaptation on Nineteen Eighty-Four and taken up in later series.

Related Topics:
British television - Quatermass - Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Terry Nation left after the first series to concentrate on other work and some critics feel that the direction of the programme suffered as a result.

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The first two series are now available on Region 2 DVD, with the third scheduled for release later this year.

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