I had a very similar reaction to it - for a time I drifted away into the everyday Hamster Wheel of work and so on and recent events have me thinking that it might be appropriate to be ready once more :)
At the time Survivors was aired I was the same age as Lizzie and John the 2 children . I was so glad I found this show. Great observations I totally agree, the series was completely absorbing.
Thanks for the video, really interesting reflections on a great and underated series,Terry Nation was a genius, I just finished re watching the series last week for probably the 20th time if not more , I grew up in the 70s in New Zealand and the bulk of our content was from the UK , The professionals, Colditz, secret Army,Dr Who , tomorrow People,where do I stop , Survivors is definitely one of my all time favourites,it was definitely one of a kind
I don't think that any series had more of an impact on me than Survivors. I was in my early-mid-teens when it came out and it has stayed with me over all the decades ever since. I can't say if Greg being an engineer had any influence on me but I did go on to become an engineer :D One interesting fact ... okay only interesting to me {:D} ... is that the hydroelectric station they used in the show is one that I created the control systems for it's substation in the 'real world' but two decades after the show aired :) I'd well recommend the couple of novels related to this. And now, looking them up, I have just discovered there is now a recent third book, "Survivors: Salvation" :)
Thanks for the video. I became fascinated by survivors during the first Covid lockdown. It’s become one of my favourite series of all time. It explores so many human issues and it’s not hard to imagine much of the issues and situations coming true.
I just finished season 1 and I'm kinda hooked. The writing and storylining are pretty simple and basic, but I'm enjoying it. Looking at TV series' nowadays they suffer from ridiculously convoluted set-ups and unbelievable set-pieces. The beauty of Survivors is its simplicity and relatability. Looking forward to seasons 2 and 3!
I was a month off being 11 when this started, only saw part of the first episode. I watched it from beginning during covid to episode 30, by that time it has lost its edge.
Good feature David. I watched the originals in the 70's when I was very young. Scary! I watched it again a few years ago and loved it. The themes are still interesting and relevant, and at times, the suspense and scary qualities were still most evident.
Just wondering if you've seen the Big Finish audiodrama revival of the 70s series with the actors brought back? They introduce their own characters and the original trio of characters make cameos in the first series but by the second series onwards the main trio from series 1 are the main characters and we get to see Abby's journey of her finding her son, a second strain of the virus, the death of Greg, and the reintroduciton of government to society (New Dawn which is set in the 90s after a time jump).
People who grew up in the Cold War get the entire 'fin de siecle' mood of the 'plausible' late 1970s, early 1980s post-apocalyptic shows ('Threads', 'The Day After'). Millennials are completely overwhelmed by the subject - especially when the Hollywood/BBC scripts are suddenly executed for real, breaking the 4th Wall.
Brilliant drama series - prophetic (and who is to say that it won't prove even more prophetic in the future - will there be more pandemics? how long until the next one? and will it be worse than the one that we had in the recent past?) The thing that I take away from the drama is that human life is fragile - at one point in the first series it is said that "cities are like pampered babies" and without the services of food supply and utilities etc provided to them, modern urban human beings are more or less useless. That includes me - there would be no place for me in a post apocalyptic world - I'm thinking that I would prefer to be one of the people who do not survive. Watching this drama on YT for the first time in nearly 50 years.
I really liked your genuine appreciation of the show. Particularly the unearthly quality of the background silences, largely filled by birdsong. But there is one piece of incidental music, a transitional sitar sting in 3.7 The Peacemaker. Also, we don't see Abby drink while she's ill, but then her bedside clock, with convenient date display, which tells us 5 days has passed was a mains powered model and wouldn't have been working anyway...
Bless the RUclips algorithms, I've just binge watched the entire 3 series.... I wonder what the possible 4th series with an African take over might have looked like? Oh well we'll never know, , maybe they thought the survivors audience weren't ready for a black cast .. (( About the same time the show first aired my parents still recall in horror me being surprised at seeing a real life black person on the train, we lived in a small village much like those depicted in the series, and our family being half-European were as close to an ethnic-minority as it got) ) For me once Abby and Greg dropped off the screen it lost it's magic .. (I was too young to be allowed to watch the first time round, but discovered it first from charity shop video tapes😊
I have recently watched the 1975-77 "Survivors" on RUclips having fondly remembered it form my youth. Having watched now as an adult I thought Series 1 was excellent but sadly declined over Series 2 & 3. I have read that both Terry Nation & Carolyn Seymour left after Series 1 due to disputes with Producer Terence Dudley over the direction he was taking the future series. Is it true that the reason we don't see Ian McCulloch & Denis Lill together in an episode of Series 3 is that by that time they were both hostile towards each other? I didn't know about the proposed additional series where Britain is invaded by black Africans. How ironic that since the 1970's Survivors and proposed additional series: 1. in 2019 the world would be plunged into chaos by a virus emanating from Chinese scientists 2. Since 2010 Britain is being invaded by hordes of African, Albanian & other migrants crossing the channel.
6:46 Tom Price is hardly "working class"! He was homeless AND jobless before the virus i.e. you can't be working class when you don't work. Everyone comes down to his level during the series.
5:43 and there was nothing wrong with it diversity is devisive theses days (and tends to be shallow and colour based ) the seventies/80s music charts were diverse . the word has been corrupted just means anti white these days
Ian McColluch said his idea for series 4 was rejected by the BBC on the grounds that it was "racist". Why didn't you say so? You must know this. I agree that it could be seen as racist - against Caucasians. Reason = the European empires in Africa were overwhelmingly beneficial to Africa. McColluch's idea was to have an Idi Amin style general/leader and an African army try to conquer Britain and simply enslave, rob, rape and murder it. ruclips.net/video/xwA3MLVyRX0/видео.html Here's a Chinese engineer telling a Congolese man what he thoinks about sub-Saharan Africans' conceit, laziness and stupidity. You wouldn't talk like this, but you surely can't disagree.
watching it today...again for the hundredth time ..love this series .made for our time.....
Aged 15 I watched this series and it scarred me for life. I am a survivalist because of this.
I am now watching it again. We've started prepping, not because of, but as well as.
I had a very similar reaction to it - for a time I drifted away into the everyday Hamster Wheel of work and so on and recent events have me thinking that it might be appropriate to be ready once more :)
At the time Survivors was aired I was the same age as Lizzie and John the 2 children .
I was so glad I found this show.
Great observations I totally agree, the series was completely absorbing.
Thanks for the video, really interesting reflections on a great and underated series,Terry Nation was a genius,
I just finished re watching the series last week for probably the 20th time if not more ,
I grew up in the 70s in New Zealand and the bulk of our content was from the UK , The professionals, Colditz, secret Army,Dr Who , tomorrow People,where do I stop ,
Survivors is definitely one of my all time favourites,it was definitely one of a kind
I must've. Watched the three series at least a dozen times. Dennis lil did a fantastic job. Terry was a genius.
Outstanding series 👍I watched when I was young 👍👍👍
I don't think that any series had more of an impact on me than Survivors. I was in my early-mid-teens when it came out and it has stayed with me over all the decades ever since. I can't say if Greg being an engineer had any influence on me but I did go on to become an engineer :D
One interesting fact ... okay only interesting to me {:D} ... is that the hydroelectric station they used in the show is one that I created the control systems for it's substation in the 'real world' but two decades after the show aired :)
I'd well recommend the couple of novels related to this. And now, looking them up, I have just discovered there is now a recent third book, "Survivors: Salvation" :)
watched it many times and ive started again
Amazingly small number of documentaries available about this subject
Thanks for the video. I became fascinated by survivors during the first Covid lockdown. It’s become one of my favourite series of all time. It explores so many human issues and it’s not hard to imagine much of the issues and situations coming true.
I just finished season 1 and I'm kinda hooked. The writing and storylining are pretty simple and basic, but I'm enjoying it. Looking at TV series' nowadays they suffer from ridiculously convoluted set-ups and unbelievable set-pieces. The beauty of Survivors is its simplicity and relatability. Looking forward to seasons 2 and 3!
I'm actually watching this now!!!!!, love it.
thank you I absolutely love the original survivor series, I also did a book review on the novel as well.
You're welcome!
I absolutely loved this show in the 70s. Loved the revamp but was very disappointed the BBC scrapped it without a conclusion.
I was in love with Carolyn Seymour.
Series went down after series 2
An excellent review of the series.
Thank you!
I was a month off being 11 when this started, only saw part of the first episode. I watched it from beginning during covid to episode 30, by that time it has lost its edge.
Good feature David. I watched the originals in the 70's when I was very young. Scary! I watched it again a few years ago and loved it. The themes are still interesting and relevant, and at times, the suspense and scary qualities were still most evident.
Just wondering if you've seen the Big Finish audiodrama revival of the 70s series with the actors brought back? They introduce their own characters and the original trio of characters make cameos in the first series but by the second series onwards the main trio from series 1 are the main characters and we get to see Abby's journey of her finding her son, a second strain of the virus, the death of Greg, and the reintroduciton of government to society (New Dawn which is set in the 90s after a time jump).
I haven't listened to them, no. I'm not a great fan of BF.
People who grew up in the Cold War get the entire 'fin de siecle' mood of the 'plausible' late 1970s, early 1980s post-apocalyptic shows ('Threads', 'The Day After').
Millennials are completely overwhelmed by the subject - especially when the Hollywood/BBC scripts are suddenly executed for real, breaking the 4th Wall.
Brilliant drama series - prophetic (and who is to say that it won't prove even more prophetic in the future - will there be more pandemics? how long until the next one? and will it be worse than the one that we had in the recent past?) The thing that I take away from the drama is that human life is fragile - at one point in the first series it is said that "cities are like pampered babies" and without the services of food supply and utilities etc provided to them, modern urban human beings are more or less useless. That includes me - there would be no place for me in a post apocalyptic world - I'm thinking that I would prefer to be one of the people who do not survive. Watching this drama on YT for the first time in nearly 50 years.
I really liked your genuine appreciation of the show. Particularly the unearthly quality of the background silences, largely filled by birdsong. But there is one piece of incidental music, a transitional sitar sting in 3.7 The Peacemaker.
Also, we don't see Abby drink while she's ill, but then her bedside clock, with convenient date display, which tells us 5 days has passed was a mains powered model and wouldn't have been working anyway...
Interesting points - thank you.
Artistic licence is widely used in the three series' though, which is fine.
I loved the series. Are you from North Yorkshire? I recognise the accent
More like County Durham...
The only way I can really describe survivors is emmerdale farm meets the walking dead!
Good analogy.
Bless the RUclips algorithms, I've just binge watched the entire 3 series.... I wonder what the possible 4th series with an African take over might have looked like? Oh well we'll never know, , maybe they thought the survivors audience weren't ready for a black cast .. (( About the same time the show first aired my parents still recall in horror me being surprised at seeing a real life black person on the train, we lived in a small village much like those depicted in the series, and our family being half-European were as close to an ethnic-minority as it got) ) For me once Abby and Greg dropped off the screen it lost it's magic .. (I was too young to be allowed to watch the first time round, but discovered it first from charity shop video tapes😊
I have recently watched the 1975-77 "Survivors" on RUclips having fondly remembered it form my youth. Having watched now as an adult I thought Series 1 was excellent but sadly declined over Series 2 & 3. I have read that both Terry Nation & Carolyn Seymour left after Series 1 due to disputes with Producer Terence Dudley over the direction he was taking the future series. Is it true that the reason we don't see Ian McCulloch & Denis Lill together in an episode of Series 3 is that by that time they were both hostile towards each other?
I didn't know about the proposed additional series where Britain is invaded by black Africans. How ironic that since the 1970's Survivors and proposed additional series: 1. in 2019 the world would be plunged into chaos by a virus emanating from Chinese scientists 2. Since 2010 Britain is being invaded by hordes of African, Albanian & other migrants crossing the channel.
The early episodes of the 1970s series was the best in my opinion. Towards the end stories where a bit samey and less thought provoking.
If you like this look for th we bbc film threads from 1984. About nuclear war.
6:46 Tom Price is hardly "working class"! He was homeless AND jobless before the virus i.e. you can't be working class when you don't work. Everyone comes down to his level during the series.
That's how one knows that events are scripted.
5:43 and there was nothing wrong with it diversity is devisive theses days (and tends to be shallow and colour based ) the seventies/80s music charts were diverse .
the word has been corrupted just means anti white these days
Ian McColluch said his idea for series 4 was rejected by the BBC on the grounds that it was "racist". Why didn't you say so? You must know this.
I agree that it could be seen as racist - against Caucasians.
Reason = the European empires in Africa were overwhelmingly beneficial to Africa. McColluch's idea was to have an Idi Amin style general/leader and an African army try to conquer Britain and simply enslave, rob, rape and murder it. ruclips.net/video/xwA3MLVyRX0/видео.html Here's a Chinese engineer telling a Congolese man what he thoinks about sub-Saharan Africans' conceit, laziness and stupidity. You wouldn't talk like this, but you surely can't disagree.
its darker and told more how it would be ,without the woke bullshittery of today
Did only the middle class survive 😂
Them and the Welsh tramp.
@culturewarp he didn't survive long though thankfully😂