Rick Cross (LVWolfman) I was fortunate enough to get to watch this when it was first run and I was stationed in England while in the U.S. Air Force. While I missed the first season, I was there in time for seasons two and three and loved them.Like the person who complained five or six years ago that it wasn't available on video, I too would like to complain... it's now on Video in the UK and Germany, but not here in the U.S.A. :-( If it ever does come out on DVD here in the States, you can be sure I'll be buying the set.As for the person wondering why the British TV shows have washed out color, my guess is that perhaps it has something to do with the conversion process from the PAL format to the NTSC format. As I remember watching shows on my PAL format TV over there, the colors were much richer than we had here in the States. It might be that the conversion was done from a film print rather than video tape as well. Old film prints tend to be more washed out.It might also have to do with the fact that the British (at least when I lived there) didn't go for the garish colors in their clothing that we Americans did. After living in England several years, I'd almost be blinded by the clothes that some of the newly arrived airmen wore. LOLHis comparison to the color in Star Trek is probably unfair though. Star Trek was done at a time when color TVs were still relatively new and they went out of their way to use very bright colors on the sets and costumes, much the way they did the first color movies.The conversion process must have certainly gotten though as the shows I watch on BBC America are very rich.

nislop In the 70s anything on TV labelled as Sci-Fi meant either wobbly cardboard sets (Dr Who) or simplistic formulas and silly costumes (StarTrek). Survivors was only called Sci-Fi because it was set 'slightly in the future', and, I suppose, because everyone in the world dying doesn't fit neatly into any other category. Three decades after last seeing an episode, two moments still stand out for me as examples of superb television.Although it was set mostly in the Worcestershire countryside, one scene set in Birmingham near where I lived featured a suburban road made over with several years' worth of moss, overgrown gardens, sagging gutters. The impressive attention to detail meant you could totally believe the world would look like this.After weeks of getting used to a world with no people, no electricity, no services of any kind, one episode started with a dramatic bang - the screen filled with the sudden noisy arrival of a police Range Rover. I really did jump out of my seat, and as I remember, it was indeed a dramatic and violent episode.Nothing quite like it has ever been made. OK, Last Train tried, but a gas that can freeze a trainload of people for years? Everyone knows that cryogenics is a sick joke.

rikko_71 Great Pilot, great movie. It was late '70 or first '80 when Rai (italian broadcast company) played this show.I was mesmerized by this product and I still remember characters as Abby or Greg.The story of a virus killing 90% of earth population compelling the survivors to start a new civilization again was thrilling expecially in the computer decade.I miss it.

Theo Robertson This speculative drama starts each episode with one of the greatest title sequence ever devised for television : A Chinese scientist accidentally drops a glass tube . Cut to the scientist collapse at an airport where planes are arriving then taking off again then the camera focuses on passports of Moscow , Madrid , Madrid , Paris and London being stamped as the picture dissolves . It doesn`t sound very exciting and it`s probably not but it is very very effective because it`s so simple . The whole premise of the series and its consequences of a lab borne virus escaping and being carried around the world sums up what has happened to humanity - the survivors - in the opening credits . Not a lot of programmes do that . And credit too for Anthony Isaacs title music which is understated , bleak and haunting Written by Terry Nation the first couple of episodes introduce us to the main characters of Abby Grant , Jenny Richards and Greg Preston , three people who have survived a superflu like virus that has wiped out 99 % of the world`s population . The trio meet more characters on their travels , not all of them good . One thing season one was good at was showing us that a worldwide calamity will not bring out the best in people and in some episodes like " Garland`s war " and " Something of value " that people may have to turn to violence if they want to survive at all . One outstanding episode " Law and order " centres around the premise of how will people deal with someone within in the group who harms another person in the sanctum Unfortunately as soon as Nation left to create BLAKES 7 at the end of the first season he took many of his Wyndham / Christopher inspired ideas with him . Seasons two and three are far less interesting than the first . Charles Vaughn who wouldn`t be out of place on a hippy or Greenpeace commune becomes the central character and SURVIVORS becomes a sort of BBC post apocalypse rival of EMMERDALE FARM with the only episodes worth watching being " Lights of London " , " Mad dog " and the absolutely outstanding " Last laugh " All in all a fairly good mature intelligent drama series but it should have been an unforgettable masterpiece from the golden age of British television. And if only Terry Nation had been given more control I`m certain it would have been . So if you`re going to watch SURVIVORS make sure you watch the whole of the first season and the episodes I mentioned above . Ignore the rest