The End of the World?

Book excerpt: Survivors was one of the finest speculative dramas ever produced by the BBC. Between 1975 and 1977, primetime television audiences were drawn to a series shaped from a 'what-if' premise both horrifying and all-too plausible: what would happen if a global catastrophe all but destroyed the human race, laying waste the pillars of modern civilisation, and condemning the few survivors to life in a country plunged back into the dark ages? This unofficial work is the first commercially published book to scrutinise Survivors in depth and in its entirety The End of the World? offers a guide to the production of each of Survivors' three series, and the characters who populate its storylines.