Survivors how many series

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Email required Address never made public. Or even the right show on the wrong channel? Now, I think, it would be on Netflix or Showtime. If you want to see a British TV series about a viral pandemic during a viral pandemic, you have to pay. The Walking Dead launched just eight months after Survivors signed off and, in many ways, picked up its post-apocalyptic baton. It is now 10 series in, a longevity at which Hodges can only marvel.

Given how much he has been reflecting on Survivors recently, is there anything Hodges would do differently, now, given what we have all experienced over the past few months?

Though God knows this one is bad enough! The series — which began with the immediate aftermath of the devastating plague — concluded with the re-establishment of a new federation of trading communities across southern England and the switching-on of the first revived hydroelectric power plant in Scotland. Inexplicably, the BBC has never repeated the series on its terrestrial channels. In the s, fan interest in the show was kept alive in the pages of the genre and sci-fi press, which ran retrospective pieces on the pioneering drama.

The release, in , of the first series on VHS video by BBC Worldwide in a six volume set reignited popular interest in the programme. Fans of the show, old and new, began to make contact with one another, and over the next few years the first Survivors fanzines and web sites appeared. In and the entire of the series was broadcast on the British satellite-cable channel UK Gold — the first time the programme had been screened since , allowing fans to tape off-air copies of the complete run.

The series has since been run a further four times on UK Gold. In Sovereign Video leased, from BBC Worldwide, the license for all three series of Survivors , but although the first series was repackaged and re-released by the company between July and September of that year, plans to release the remaining two series went unrealised.

The last broadcast run of the show concluded on UK Gold in the spring of