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Survivors - Series 1-3 Box Set [DVD] [1975]

Denis Lill (Actor), Lucy Fleming (Actor), Pennant Roberts (Director), Rated: Parental Guidance Format: DVD

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Genre	Drama
Format	PAL
Contributor	George Salkind, Myra Frances, Michael Gover, Brian Peck, Paul Chapman, John Hallet, Graham Fletcher, Talfryn Thomas, June Bolton, Ian McCulloch, Lucy Fleming, Barry Stanton, Eileen Helsby, Denis Lawson, Lorna Lewis, Peter Duncan, Stephen Tate, Julie Neubert, Dennis M. Hill, Christopher Reich, George Baker, Denis Lill, Annie Hayes, Christopher Tranchell, Terence Dudley, Peter Bowles, Dennis Lill, Gerald Blake, Pennant Roberts, Hana-Maria Pravda, Peter Miles, Terry Nation, Heather Wright, Dennis Chinnery, Robert Tayman, Celia Gregory, Richard Heffer, Nikolas Grace, Stephen Dudley, Carolyn Seymour, Peter Jeffrey, Suzanna East, Peter Copley, Clive Exton, Jack Ronder, Keith Jayne, June Page, John Abineri, Terence Williams, Terry Scully, Tanya Ronder, Gigi Gatti, Glyn Owen See more
Language	English
Number of discs	11

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Terry Nation’s drama series Survivors, broadcast by the BBC between 1975 to 1977, was one of the most popular series of the decade. Set in a post-apocalyptic, present day world ravaged by a devastating plague, Survivors explored how humanity would cope in a world stripped of modern technology and comforts.

The disease struck quickly and with devastating effect – a global plague that, in Britain, spares just a few thousand people. This is the chilling story of some of those who survive — Jenny, Greg, Abby and others — determined to construct a new community from the surrounding wasteland where the technology and skills of the old life have become obsolete.

Featuring all three series of the classic drama, this collection tells the full Survivors story, from the outbreak of the pandemic to foundation of the settlements to the rebirth of society.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 4:3 - 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.6 cm; 0.75 Grams
Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 5051561027666
Director ‏ : ‎ Pennant Roberts, Terence Williams, Gerald Blake
Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
Run time ‏ : ‎ 31 hours and 55 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ 24 Nov. 2008
Actors ‏ : ‎ Denis Lill, Lucy Fleming, Ian McCulloch, Carolyn Seymour, Talfryn Thomas
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Studio ‏ : ‎ 2entertain
Producers ‏ : ‎ Terence Dudley
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001EVP838
Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Czech Republic
Writers ‏ : ‎ Terry Nation, Jack Ronder, Clive Exton
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 11

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colin rutherford

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2022

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Brought back so many memories from watching this in the 70’s

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Alex Lyon

A Plague on all our Houses

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2013

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What if a super strain of Bubonic Plague wiped out 99% of the population? In Terry Nation's Survivors, it seems to take out the UK (or most of it) in about a week. When Abbie Grant falls ill, the epidemic is just kicking in; by the time she recovers, it's pretty much over, and the next thirty odd episodes, broadcast over three years, deal with picking up the bits.

Self-sufficiency was a big idea in the 1970s, and the Beeb explored it to great effect in The Good Life. Survivors, it is safe to point out, is not remotely funny.

It's also worth noting that the first series was significantly the best of the three. Terry Nation clearly had a hot nut for the zeitgeist, and worked out thirteen episodes dealing with the various 'what if?' questions arising from his apocalypse, and being a writer with a consummate eye for a good tale, he went for the gangsters, robber barons, feudal overlords and scheming adventuresses. Survivors works best when it's got an adventure to go on, and being prime time viewing, that's part of its stock in trade. Invite the viewer to think by all means, but drama demands conflict.

All three series are well acted, with a policy of securing a guest star turn every week - Glyn Owen, George Baker, Peter Bowles, Richard Heffer, Peter Jeffery, Brian Blessed, Peter Myles, John Bennet, Patrick Troughton Sylvia, Coleridge to name ten. The regulars are good; Carolyn Seymour as Abbie, Ian McCulloch as Greg, Lucy Fleming as Jenny, and Chris Tranchell and Paul the charismatic hippy. Terrence Dudley's son Stephen and Jack Ronder's daughter Tanya are the kids, John and Lizzie, and blatant nepotism aside, they're very good. Talfryn Thomas provides grubby light relief as the deeply dodgy Tom Price (until he kills somebody), replaced in Series 2 & 3 by John Albineri as the dour, equally dodgy (if much less funny) Hubert Goss. Denis Lill guest stars in Series 1, then returns as a regular in Series 2 & 3.

While it works very well as an action vehicle, Survivors has an unfortunate tendency to proselytise, which it does far too often, and far too long, rather as if it's all too conscious of an Important Message that it has a bounden duty to teach.

Looking a little more closely at the history of the show, it's hard not to wonder if it was this dichotomy that divided the company. Terry Nation left the show, reportedly in high dudgeon, at the end of Series 1, as did Carolyn Seymour, who had a problem not just with drink but Terrence Dudley. Script Editor Jack Ronder left after Series 2, taking his daughter with him (the replacement child actor has the wrong colour hair - for goodness sake!), as did Ian McCulloch, only returning for two stories, both of which he wrote himself about Greg in action hero mode, and those results are very good, but it's hard not to see a large ego having been frustrated by Series 2.

None of this suggests a company at all at peace with itself. Terry Scully launched the character of Vic Thatcher, eventually wheelchair bound and trying to cope with it, but Mr Scully had a nervous breakdown during Series 1 and was replaced (quite quickly) by Hugh Walters (doing a good job in an unenviable position). It doesn't seem a happy ship.

Vic and a number of previous regulars die in a fire at the start of Series 2 (and are lamentably un-lamented); Series 2, centred on Charles's settlement at White Cross, occasionally concerns itself with the search for Abbie, and Series 3, which is much more nomadic, with the search for Greg, and ultimately restoration of the National Grid, and there it ends.

The mortality rate is considerable, and born of a sensible realism, but an effect of this is that good characters often die with their potential unexplored; Lewis the parson deserved more, as did John the boatman (Patrick Troughton on fine form). Tom Price is side-lined and perfunctorily killed, which is a waste. It's realistic, but ultimately enervating to the story; `Do they want to watch next week now that x isn't in it?'

One criticism made by real former Resistance fighters on the first series of Secret Army was `Why is everyone so serious? We laughed all the time' In spite of the fact that for many, the way to cope is to laugh, Survivors lacks humour, and to remove the ability in humans to make each other laugh is to cause a glaring omission.

Much of it is shot in the Welsh Marches, and what we see looks good, though it starts to get samey after a while (that's about one third into Series 2), and visits to cities, which offer so much potential, are limited and brief. Though `going to Cheshire to get salt' is talked about, we never see it. When Greg and Charlie visit London, we see very little of the place, which seems an opportunity not just wasted, but actively thrown away.

It's also very clean - the BBC wardrobe found it much easier to maintain continuity by laundering the costumes - so the aspect of grubby and increasingly threadbare clothes is never really addressed - Working Class characters like Tom Price and Hubert Goss are generally dirty, but not the nice Middle Class, they are always properly turned out. What it is to be British. In spite of grumbles about returning to a pre-plague status quo, it's the Middle Classes that run things (until they run into Iain Cutherbertson as a Scottish laird in the final episode!) . The analogy with Orwell's pigs is never pointed out.

Even the pack of `wild feral dogs' that feature, particularly in Series 3 are clean, shampooed, and really quite well behaved.

All of this is to damn a series that that set off with the best intentions into uncharted territory and then, unsurprisingly, lost its way occasionally. There are episodes of Series 2 (those dealing with Mina being suspected of witchcraft, and the arrival of Parson Lewis are prime examples) that are terminally thin on plot (oh dear, what *shall* we do next...), while others (the justice episode in Series 1, the Parasites story in Series 2) are just the excellent drama that the BBC was so good at in the 1970s. By turns, Survivors can be turgid or superb, but 50 mins per episode can be a long time to expect people to watch if the engrossing sub plot is all about the rendering of fat to make soap, or squabbles over the rights to a pig.

And here lies the central problem; if it's about `What form of society would we build if all this were wiped away?' (ie `What do we really want?') then it consistently fails to come up with an answer. What we don't want - that it's very clear on - crooks, gangsters, bandits, fascists, despots, random murderers, football hooligans, and Tom Price - but in the end it becomes a race to get the power back on before a daft bugger, with a half-baked agenda that technology is bad, throws his spanner in the works, because we're all so sick of making soap and gathering firewood, and confronting what it really means to be human, and we all want, very much, to get back to a far more superficial way of life.

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Thought-provoking sci-fi drama from the makers of Doctor Who.

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Series 1: This is top quality television. Everyone who worked on this series had a fine pedigree, whether they are writer, director, film cameraman or actor. The series (and every episode) starts with the powerful Anthony Isaac music, accompanied by a clever title sequence which explained the central premise for anyone who might have missed previous instalments. That premise, and really the only science-fiction element in the whole show is that a deadly disease has escaped from a laboratory in China and has spread throughout the world, killing 999 out of every thousand people. The opening episode starts with the almost sitcom domesticity of Peter Bowles and Carolyn Seymour as David and Abby Grant. David's petulant complaints about the traffic and his dreadful commute are soon overtaken by events as he and Abby have to deal with the very real threats of the plague, followed by the loss of television, radio, and electricity. As the series gets going, Abby teams up with a younger, attractive woman Jenny, and a resourceful engineer Greg. Initially their struggle is just to survive, but then they start to rebuild some sort of society. A thorn in their side is Tom Price, played with scene-stealing aplomb by Welsh actor Talfryn Thomas. A rather seedy tramp, Thomas is the light relief in several episodes, until the stand-out story Law And Order, when he's responsible for a chain of events that ends up in tragedy for the fledgeling community. Creator Terry Nation wrote several episodes this series, and often puts words in his characters' mouths which remind us of the fragility of our modern society. The characters ponder whether a modern day person could even make something as simple as a candle - where would they get the tallow, where would they get the string for the wick? How would they mould it? This element of polemic is kept up throughout the three series. Series one is peppered with an all-star guest cast, such as George Baker, Peter Miles, Robert Gillespie, Glyn Owen and Dennis Lill.

Series 2: As this series starts, the characters have relocated to a different farm and several cast members were written out and in. This is mostly for the good, however the loss of Carolyn Seymour is keenly felt. Replacing her is the Welsh character Charles, who had a small role in series one, played by Denis Lill. Lill is a very strong actor and capable of carrying the series in Seymour's absence. However Ian McCulloch who plays Greg Preston is also an able leading man, and the tension in the community between the two leaders is felt by the viewer, who doesn't really know which to follow. The scripts in this series are weaker, as producer Terence Dudley dismissed creator Terry Nation from the writing team. Only Jack Ronder remained as writer from the first year of production, and replacements Don Shaw and Roger Parkes turn in some workmanlike scripts but are not up to the same standard Only Martin Worth arrives with some writing quality. However the acting quality remained good and wonderful child actors Tanya Ronder and Stephen Dudley are retained from season one. Replacing Talfryn Thomas's character as comic relief is the underused John Abineri as grumpy shepherd Hubert. There are some strong guest turns from Patrick Troughton, Philip Madoc, David Sibley and notably Sidney Tafler, giving his all as a Jewish spiv (did he play any other type of role?) as leader of the community in London. Difficult issues continue to be addressed, but there is a sense that the story has already been told.

Series 3: This series saw a shake-up in the format. No longer were we confined to one community or farm, we follow our characters as they set off about the country on horseback with Ian McCulloch and Denis Lill alternating as leads. John Abineri's character Hubert is more prominent in this series, and some of the comedy of his character is lost and we see his more heroic traits emerging. For an actor of Abineri's character, this is just reward for his contribution to series two. Again we're treated to some star names as guest actor of the week, including Iain Cuthbertson, Roy Marsden, and Brian Blessed. While the accent in the second series had been on the philosophy of self-sufficiency, this series dwelled on the reconstruction of society and rebuilding structures of state, an economy, and an infrastructure. By the end of this series, the story has really been told, and it comes to a fine conclusion when Cuthbertson's chippy Scottish laird argues with Lill's egalitarian Welshman about who will own the power once the generators get going again. Martin Worth's final script retains only a little of the essential pessimism of Terry Nation's original vision, and while this might make for a satisfying conclusion, it does mean that the series as a whole is tonally uneven. Nevertheless, every episode is enjoyable, and every episode has something to commend it.

DVD Extras: The extras on this edition are really poor. Previous single series boxed sets had many more extras and commentaries. This set has no commentaries at all, just a brief documentary from the "The Cult Of..." series and a handful of BBC publicity snaps. However you can't really complain for the price this is being released at, and overall it represents excellent value for the price of five packets of cigarettes.

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