Survivors - Series 1-3 - Complete DVD

Conceived by Terry Nation (the creator of the Daleks and Blake's 7) Survivors is a groundbreaking and startlingly realistic television drama series. First aired in 1975 at the height of the Cold War Survivors post-apocalyptic storylines immediately gripped the imagination of the British public and remain compelling viewing to this day. Series 1 The first series of thirteen episodes charts the onset and aftermath of a virulent plague that wipes out 99.9% of the world's population and the struggles of a lone group of survivors during the privations that follow. The action... follows the experiences of three principal survivors: headstrong housewife Abby Grant enigmatic engineer Greg Preston and London secretary Jenny Richards. Series 2 This second series of thirteen episodes is set a year after the global pandemic which claimed the lives of 99.9% of the world's population and charts the continuing struggles of a small band of survivors in the dangerous new world left behind by 'The Death'. Picking up the storyline six months after the events of the first series the action follows Greg Preston as he visits Whitecross to meet up with self-sufficiency expert Charles Vaughan again. Jenny is now heavily pregnant with Greg's baby and is understandably keen to have absent medical student Ruth present at the birth. Greg is determined to locate her but catastrophe strikes while he is away and a terrible fire destroys the Grange. Reunited with Jenny and the other survivors of the blaze Greg decides they have no choice but to join the community at Whitecross. There they meet Charles partner Pet (Lorna Lewis) shepherd Hurbert (John Abineri) and carpenter Jack (Gordon Salkilld). The new year brings new perils for the survivors including: a memorable journey to the heart of rat-infested London; the menace of a deadly sniper in an episode penned by Ian McCulloch (Greg) himself; and the ever present threat of disease. Series 3 This final series of twelve episodes is set two years after the global pandemic which claimed the lives of 99.9% of the world's population and charts the continuing struggles of a small band of survivors in the dangerous new world left behind by 'The Death'. [show more]

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