I have never forgotten this series and think about it every time there is a pandemic scare. It had quite a good look at a crumbled, paranoid society -- the frayed remnants of a modern civilization. I was 17 when the show first aired.
I remember watching this as a kid and as a matter of fact when covid broke out last year I thought back to this series thinking how canny and similar it was to the origins of this one, spooky stuff.
Just about remember it as a kid and have the complete boxset now and watching it again for the second time, brilliant that it's set in the UK very realistic scenarios
What is interesting is that in the BBC survivors only 1% of the population globally survive however currently with covid-19 99.9% of the population survive so almost a reversal
I wonder what the survival rate would have been if it did happen in the 70's, without the benefit of instantaneous communication globally and 21st century science and medicine.
@@SteveMcGarrigle exactly the same ..there was no need for a vaccine its just tied up to digital ID and priming people for a life of endless lockdowns ..for climate and so on
I sent that opening title sequence to everyone when the C19 nonsense kicked off :) That series is what steered me away from the Capitalist Drone life-arc and set me towards being ready for there not to be a working civilisation anymore. Sadly, time is one heck of a grinding wheel and, tho' the mind knows what is necessary, now I am too old to make it once the wheels come off.
I was only 9 or 10 when Survivors first on telly, I can remember it being on but not any of the storylines. So... how excited to see all three series, all thirty-six episodes, listed on BritBox - just finished a bingewatch over a month or so! Yeah, some of the similarities with the Covid pandemic are quite spooky, the writing team clearly had medical experts to advise them. One similarity not included in these clips is the London variant strain, much like we’re seeing in various places around the globe. The acting is pretty terrible (even with the help of a few recognisable faces, eg Brian Blessed) but that helps keep it light, easy to digest while I did the washing up 👏🏻
terry nation, the welsh science fiction writer, born in cardiff...., said his basis of inspiration....for * survivors* was the 1918 spanish flu global pandemic..., the spooky simmilarities with the 1975 bbc series,novel and bigfinish audio drama... to the events of 2020 are uncanny* also that history, pandemics like the justinian plague, bubonic, pnuemonic plagues in history,,,,
The acting was better than the performances by midozalam Matt Hancock and Johnson pretending he was ill in hospital a day after the Scottish home Secretary was caught for a second time in their holiday home..
Hello Road Gent and thanks for the 'Knob' at the end of your post. It did make me laugh. I haven't heard that for years. In my world best mates call each other 'C**t' so I am not at all offended. So of course this series didn't exactly predict every single detail of the Covid pandemic correctly - that would be uncannily weird, but in case it was lost on you, my parallels are these. It was a virus, originating in China and of course there are continuing real life investigations in to the possibility of it originating from a lab in Wuhan, a concept reflected in the shows title sequence. It is quickly transmitted globally via air travel. This happened with Covid and resulted in the near shut down of the Airline industry when national border lockdowns happened. The hospitals are, to quote the doctor 'Snowed under' with 'Staff going down with it as fast as the patients.' This continues to be the case. Jen, the female character in the hospital mistakes it for the flu and the doctor points out that it is not the flu ( In real life there were people saying 'It's no worse than the flu - why are we suddenly having lockdowns and self isolation? ) People can be asymptomatic carriers unknowingly infecting other people reflected in the scene "You brought some illness with you." Jen - "We were all well." M "You were carrying it." The reality of this resulted in social distancing and mask mandates. In real life, people were panic buying food, leaving shelves empty and in the show, it wasn't that the shelves were or weren't actually empty it was that the character who confronts our 'Survivors' addresses this with his talk ending with "It's a question of conserving. Sharing out properly". Or it's a case of "I'm alright Jack while other people are starving." In the last clip Peter Bowls discusses with his wife taking their child out of school and of course we had a complete closure of schools in real life. As for queues for injections ,I was in pretty long queues for my first two jabs. Finally, I don't think my title and description were unnecessarily 'Click-baity' or going to scare anybody more than the government and media were already doing and I stand by it. Besides, click-bait titles are just a standard thing on RUclips and across the Internet so get over it! Clearly with only 81 subscribers I don't take this channel very seriously. I post very infrequently. I think my kids have more subscribers than I do on their channels. Peace and love.
I didn't know about this programme at all. I was only five at the time and far more interested in Play School and my toys. Little did we know that this scenario would become reality in the future!
I know this series from the seventies. Now the reality in 2022 has turned out to be even worse. I thought not because of the same amount of deaths but because of the shortcomings in human society.
Someone must have been in on the know to produce this at the time. Lets face it, old Klaus and his ' ze great reset' agenda has been in the planning stage for decades
@@modernchampionmusic81 it was in the 70s when I came home from school and I always believed it would become reality one day and now it has become reality and I'm going to be 59 years old in two days time
I thought about this series and the remake when the country started to close down 4 years ago. Thankfully it was never as bad as Survivors, but the disease spreading from the Far East and being some new virus had parallels.
Note, in both versions of this show, the doctors don't wear masks or use gloves or other means to protect them from this supposed "flu virus" (as they call it). Also, it appears to be a severe version of bubonic plague, so why weren't they using plague vaccines and antibiotics? Why didn't anybody twig that flu vaccines aren't designed to fight the plague? EDIT: And why has the doctor got his hands all over the main character and standing right in her face, wouldn't he be staying back and telling her to get out of there?
The doctors knew that everyone in London was exposed to it already, it was virulent and killed in about 6 days. He knew Jenny had to have been exposed to it just being in London, combine that with her roommate being sick and her walking into the hospital. No measures would protect her from getting it.
@@ClydeRowing No it was more akin to the bubonic plague. Remember they got lumps under their arms (buboes) in the series. Smallpox gives you pustules on your skin and the "Survivors" plague didn't do that.
Never saw the original but am watching the remake. With most people dead electricity would turn off. Biggest challenge would be surviving without any electricity. Generators will be useful but eventually gasoline would also run out
You'd be surprised at how well you CAN get along without electricity. What do you need it for really? cooking? use a camp stove or wood, watching TV? there won't be any broadcasts, cell phones? the towers will all be dead. About the only thing you would notice is the fridge stinks because everything has rotted... you'll have to figure out how they kept food safe in the old days (drying, smoking, pressure canning etc)..
@@campervan-john power stations will just auto down (if they werent shut down already prior to everyone dying) also nuclear power stations dont magically explode just bcause no one is there to monitor them...
@@redcardinalist Don't spent nuclear rods have to be consistently be kept cool,hence vast amount of water used. If no one around to maintain and keep the pumps running the water would run dry then then the spent nuclear waste would explode. As I've seen in a documentary.
Yes. Has some similarities as they both explore a post-apocalypse world. But they differ very much in terms of the world that follows the apocalypse. In Threads, most of the land is uninhabitable, and the cities are in ruins. Human survival looks a remote possibility beyond a couple of generations. In Survivors, the cities are intact but disease-ridden, and the countryside is a comparatively safe environment, so people revert to a primitive, agrarian lifestyle and largely live away from full settlements. They are able to live moderately well, but simply.
When I was a boy and used to watch this drama I said too myself one day if people are not careful about tampering with nature this is really going to happen in 50 years time and now were living it and my words have come true and wipe us all out all over the world
well except that there's no evidence at all that this isn't a natural disease. Oh and of coruse it hasnt wiped us out has it? Farm from it. Thanksfully, the mortality rate is low.
Not really as there's no comparison between the virus in this tv series and cvoid. First, one is man made and the other isnt. Second, one has a huge mortality rate and Covid doesnt
What is accurate is that it's about a pandemic, spread by air travel from China, the ensuing chaos in the hospitals and how some people were panic buying food, leaving non for everyone else. Plus how in the clip, one of the survivors realises that she is an asymptomatic carrier who has inadvertently killed someone else.
@@SteveMcGarrigle just like every other virus then (well without the China bit) except of coruse with Covid we didn't run out of food as there wasnt really much panic buying (other than played up by the media) and there wasn't "chaos" in the hospitals (yes there was a great deal of stress on our feeble NHS). 90% of the population has just got on with life with Covid. Don't get me wrong, it's a potenitally life threatening illness but the moratailty rate is low (not much hihger than flu). Unlike this tv show.God helps us if we have a disease that has a high mortality rat.
No one is saying that EVERYTHING in it has come true. Indeed, no one is saying that Covid-19 and The Death are the same disease. What the series has proven correct about is how vulnerable we can be to mutant pandemics.
Covid prediction my arse. it's a good series (rubbish BBC remake later - but no surprises there...) but Covid prediction - nope. Covid isn't man made for a start (despite what looney conspiracy theorists might claim)
It's never established in the original version that The Death is man-made either. All we see in the titles is a scientist in China examining a sample of the disease and spilling it. This doesn't tell us how they discovered it. It's entirely possible that it was found in the wild (maybe in the entrails of a local animal) and they were simply trying to identify it or learn its properties.
I watched this series on tv back in the 70’s, when Covid happened in 2020 I immediately remembered it
There was a remake in 2007 that was just as good to watch and with a bigger budget.
Likewise.
@@0scartheCat white privillege
I was very young when this was on TV....I remember it was very depressing....the opening credits were so ominous
I have never forgotten this series and think about it every time there is a pandemic scare. It had quite a good look at a crumbled, paranoid society -- the frayed remnants of a modern civilization. I was 17 when the show first aired.
I remember watching this as a kid and as a matter of fact when covid broke out last year I thought back to this series thinking how canny and similar it was to the origins of this one, spooky stuff.
They should have had a private screening of this in the first COBRA meeting
😂
Perhaps they did?
survivors is an excellent series, surprisingly good and accurate in the present day, thanks for the upload and reminder
What fucking similarities are there to whats happening in the world to this drama?
@@modernchampionmusic81if you can't see any similarities you're a fucking simpleton 😂😂😂
I remember this well, I was in the first year of secondary school in 1975. Great series.
So 65 ? This year ?
You must be about my age!
You would therefore be eleven years older than me, as I was just five and not long at infant school then!
I bought the dvd to the series a couple of years back and enjoyed it tremendously. No doubt the BBC is too scared to air it again.
but they made a remake?
@@porkulator they did ? I'll have a look if I can't find it please post a link to it.
@@redneckredcoat ruclips.net/video/54PUhMEZDp0/видео.html&ab_channel=BBCAmerica
@@porkulator Wow. Cheers for that.
@@redneckredcoat But it was not a good re-telling of the tale, I am afraid.
the virus in this series has the same thing in common with Covid - they BOTH started in China.
the current virus was first discovered in China. That's the only thing they have in common.
Just about remember it as a kid and have the complete boxset now and watching it again for the second time, brilliant that it's set in the UK very realistic scenarios
I was 10 when I watched this and I still remember how I thought this was most likely
What is interesting is that in the BBC survivors only 1% of the population globally survive however currently with covid-19 99.9% of the population survive so almost a reversal
Its early days - wait for their end game to see what the percentages really are...
They could have mixed Corona with MOUSEPOX that would be 99.98%
Make that 99.998% and even if you catch CoVid its a 1 in 200th of 1% of actually dying from it, but fare not, rush out and get the (Not) Vaccine
@@andyb.1026 wouldn't touch the vaccine with the barge pole lol you are right
I wonder what the survival rate would have been if it did happen in the 70's, without the benefit of instantaneous communication globally and 21st century science and medicine.
@@SteveMcGarrigle exactly the same ..there was no need for a vaccine its just tied up to digital ID and priming people for a life of endless lockdowns ..for climate and so on
I sent that opening title sequence to everyone when the C19 nonsense kicked off :) That series is what steered me away from the Capitalist Drone life-arc and set me towards being ready for there not to be a working civilisation anymore. Sadly, time is one heck of a grinding wheel and, tho' the mind knows what is necessary, now I am too old to make it once the wheels come off.
I absolutely loved Survivors. It was created by Terry Nation, who also created Dr Who. I was 15 in 1975. I’m 28 now. How time flies!
Wait, what? Lol!
Wrong. So wrong. Terry Nation didn't create Dr Who. He just created the Daleks. And fuck knows how old you are. You certainly don't ;)
I understood that joke. Very funny 😂
@@hopebgood True, although Nation did create Blake's 7 as well, so his record was still impressive.
I was only 9 or 10 when Survivors first on telly, I can remember it being on but not any of the storylines. So... how excited to see all three series, all thirty-six episodes, listed on BritBox - just finished a bingewatch over a month or so! Yeah, some of the similarities with the Covid pandemic are quite spooky, the writing team clearly had medical experts to advise them. One similarity not included in these clips is the London variant strain, much like we’re seeing in various places around the globe. The acting is pretty terrible (even with the help of a few recognisable faces, eg Brian Blessed) but that helps keep it light, easy to digest while I did the washing up 👏🏻
terry nation, the welsh science fiction writer, born in cardiff....,
said his basis of inspiration....for * survivors* was the 1918 spanish flu global pandemic...,
the spooky simmilarities with the 1975 bbc series,novel and bigfinish audio drama...
to the events of 2020 are uncanny* also that history, pandemics like the justinian plague, bubonic, pnuemonic plagues in history,,,,
Who needs to watch at mo ? It’s all around!
The acting was better than the performances by midozalam Matt Hancock and Johnson pretending he was ill in hospital a day after the Scottish home Secretary was caught for a second time in their holiday home..
@@jardon8636 what happened in your town ?was everyone wiped out?
Hello Road Gent and thanks for the 'Knob' at the end of your post. It did make me laugh. I haven't heard that for years. In my world best mates call each other 'C**t' so I am not at all offended. So of course this series didn't exactly predict every single detail of the Covid pandemic correctly - that would be uncannily weird, but in case it was lost on you, my parallels are these. It was a virus, originating in China and of course there are continuing real life investigations in to the possibility of it originating from a lab in Wuhan, a concept reflected in the shows title sequence. It is quickly transmitted globally via air travel. This happened with Covid and resulted in the near shut down of the Airline industry when national border lockdowns happened. The hospitals are, to quote the doctor 'Snowed under' with 'Staff going down with it as fast as the patients.' This continues to be the case. Jen, the female character in the hospital mistakes it for the flu and the doctor points out that it is not the flu ( In real life there were people saying 'It's no worse than the flu - why are we suddenly having lockdowns and self isolation? ) People can be asymptomatic carriers unknowingly infecting other people reflected in the scene "You brought some illness with you." Jen - "We were all well." M "You were carrying it." The reality of this resulted in social distancing and mask mandates. In real life, people were panic buying food, leaving shelves empty and in the show, it wasn't that the shelves were or weren't actually empty it was that the character who confronts our 'Survivors' addresses this with his talk ending with "It's a question of conserving. Sharing out properly". Or it's a case of "I'm alright Jack while other people are starving." In the last clip Peter Bowls discusses with his wife taking their child out of school and of course we had a complete closure of schools in real life. As for queues for injections ,I was in pretty long queues for my first two jabs. Finally, I don't think my title and description were unnecessarily 'Click-baity' or going to scare anybody more than the government and media were already doing and I stand by it. Besides, click-bait titles are just a standard thing on RUclips and across the Internet so get over it! Clearly with only 81 subscribers I don't take this channel very seriously. I post very infrequently. I think my kids have more subscribers than I do on their channels. Peace and love.
We watch the full series at Christmas every year. Survivors taught us what not to do.
I didn't know about this programme at all. I was only five at the time and far more interested in Play School and my toys. Little did we know that this scenario would become reality in the future!
I know this series from the seventies. Now the reality in 2022 has turned out to be even worse. I thought not because of the same amount of deaths but because of the shortcomings in human society.
Someone must have been in on the know to produce this at the time. Lets face it, old Klaus and his ' ze great reset' agenda has been in the planning stage for decades
They have planned it for years..predictive programming ..everyone else on here thinks its "spooky"
GREAT WORK
Creepy...
Also check The Invasion with Nicole Kidman...2007.
Or The Patriot with Steven Seagal..
I read this was due for a re airing in the time in 2018 /19 and then came COVID can you imagine if this was shown during lockdown?
I used to come home from school and watch this drama survivor
you must have come home from chool late asit wasnt broadcast until after 9pm:)
What time did they show it?I'm obsessed with it cant stop watching it..it was madex2 years before I was born..
@@modernchampionmusic81 hahaha I will have to rethink too help you lol
@@modernchampionmusic81 it was in the 70s when I came home from school and I always believed it would become reality one day and now it has become reality and I'm going to be 59 years old in two days time
@@modernchampionmusic81 i have watched every episode from the first episode and their is about 52 hour long episode's to watch
I watched this when I was 10yrs old... I too remember this Immediately when Covid struck.
I thought about this series and the remake when the country started to close down 4 years ago. Thankfully it was never as bad as Survivors, but the disease spreading from the Far East and being some new virus had parallels.
Over what period of time are people killed off. Does it happen over night, a week ?
How freaky is this... I remember when as a 12 year old kid, hebeejeebees.
Note, in both versions of this show, the doctors don't wear masks or use gloves or other means to protect them from this supposed "flu virus" (as they call it). Also, it appears to be a severe version of bubonic plague, so why weren't they using plague vaccines and antibiotics? Why didn't anybody twig that flu vaccines aren't designed to fight the plague? EDIT: And why has the doctor got his hands all over the main character and standing right in her face, wouldn't he be staying back and telling her to get out of there?
The doctors knew that everyone in London was exposed to it already, it was virulent and killed in about 6 days. He knew Jenny had to have been exposed to it just being in London, combine that with her roommate being sick and her walking into the hospital. No measures would protect her from getting it.
I believe it was meant to be smallpox.
@@ClydeRowing No it was more akin to the bubonic plague. Remember they got lumps under their arms (buboes) in the series. Smallpox gives you pustules on your skin and the "Survivors" plague didn't do that.
poor writing basically
The Welsh guy, Price, got it right in the first episode, I`m not going near anyone and stay away from me he told people.
Never saw the original but am watching the remake. With most people dead electricity would turn off. Biggest challenge would be surviving without any electricity. Generators will be useful but eventually gasoline would also run out
You'd be surprised at how well you CAN get along without electricity. What do you need it for really? cooking? use a camp stove or wood, watching TV? there won't be any broadcasts, cell phones? the towers will all be dead. About the only thing you would notice is the fridge stinks because everything has rotted... you'll have to figure out how they kept food safe in the old days (drying, smoking, pressure canning etc)..
Yes and nuclear power stations will over heat and explode and shower radiation all over the place just to make survival more difficult.
@@campervan-john power stations will just auto down (if they werent shut down already prior to everyone dying) also nuclear power stations dont magically explode just bcause no one is there to monitor them...
@@redcardinalist
Don't spent nuclear rods have to be consistently be kept cool,hence vast amount of water used. If no one around to maintain and keep the pumps running the water would run dry then then the spent nuclear waste would explode. As I've seen in a documentary.
So anyone remember the 1984 series Threads
Yes. Has some similarities as they both explore a post-apocalypse world. But they differ very much in terms of the world that follows the apocalypse. In Threads, most of the land is uninhabitable, and the cities are in ruins. Human survival looks a remote possibility beyond a couple of generations. In Survivors, the cities are intact but disease-ridden, and the countryside is a comparatively safe environment, so people revert to a primitive, agrarian lifestyle and largely live away from full settlements. They are able to live moderately well, but simply.
When I was a boy and used to watch this drama I said too myself one day if people are not careful about tampering with nature this is really going to happen in 50 years time and now were living it and my words have come true and wipe us all out all over the world
well except that there's no evidence at all that this isn't a natural disease. Oh and of coruse it hasnt wiped us out has it? Farm from it. Thanksfully, the mortality rate is low.
@@redcardinalist I agree with you i think a lot of it has been made up
By the way I watched most of it at 8yrs old!
I watched a few episodes of this on TV as a kid, scary as. Notice there's no masks or protection in the hospital!
According to the novel, the hospitals ran out of PPE due to the overload of patients.
@@martinodoni8943 Probably.
Prophetic !
Not really as there's no comparison between the virus in this tv series and cvoid. First, one is man made and the other isnt. Second, one has a huge mortality rate and Covid doesnt
So crazy
Survivors started good but then became a soap opera.
Difference is this depicted a real pandemic..
95% of the human race was wiped out. Hardly anaccurate predicrtion.
What is accurate is that it's about a pandemic, spread by air travel from China, the ensuing chaos in the hospitals and how some people were panic buying food, leaving non for everyone else. Plus how in the clip, one of the survivors realises that she is an asymptomatic carrier who has inadvertently killed someone else.
@@SteveMcGarrigle just like every other virus then (well without the China bit) except of coruse with Covid we didn't run out of food as there wasnt really much panic buying (other than played up by the media) and there wasn't "chaos" in the hospitals (yes there was a great deal of stress on our feeble NHS). 90% of the population has just got on with life with Covid. Don't get me wrong, it's a potenitally life threatening illness but the moratailty rate is low (not much hihger than flu). Unlike this tv show.God helps us if we have a disease that has a high mortality rat.
No one is saying that EVERYTHING in it has come true. Indeed, no one is saying that Covid-19 and The Death are the same disease. What the series has proven correct about is how vulnerable we can be to mutant pandemics.
@@SteveMcGarrigle its called predictive programming its not a prediction..whats another word for a TV show?
@@martinodoni8943 more vulnerable to mutants who believe everything they see on the TV and start injecting themselves with mutant spike proteins
Covid prediction my arse. it's a good series (rubbish BBC remake later - but no surprises there...) but Covid prediction - nope. Covid isn't man made for a start (despite what looney conspiracy theorists might claim)
It's never established in the original version that The Death is man-made either. All we see in the titles is a scientist in China examining a sample of the disease and spilling it. This doesn't tell us how they discovered it. It's entirely possible that it was found in the wild (maybe in the entrails of a local animal) and they were simply trying to identify it or learn its properties.
Great show but a year later & nothing mirrors this show except covid is serious. Nice try