SURVIVORS.
It happens now. It is later this evening, or tomorrow, when you wake up - if you wake up...
SURVIVORS has often been mistaken for science-fiction. Produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1975-77, this fascinating drama is not set in some future time or place, instead it happens here and now.
There are no alien visitations or advanced societies, only an invisible, man-made bacterium which steals through our world, erasing nine-tenths of the earth´s population.
Shot almost entirely on video-tape, these stories have an uncanny realism about them and cover, in real time, an alternative world about us - should the worst have happened...
Produced by the visionary Terence Dudley, with major contributions by writer Terry Nation (´Rebecca´s World´) and masterfully piloted by director Pennant Roberts, SURVIVORS has gone on to become an acknowledged classic in the finest BBC Tradition.
SURVIVORS - The Newsletter exists to provide fans with a platform from which to communicate regarding the implications of this innovative show in addition to celebrating its brilliant storylines. SURVIVORS stalwart, Ian McCulloch still retains a gentleman´s agreement on an option to revive the show, should anyone have faith in the next coming...
