UK, 16 April 1975
50m
videotape, 16mm film, colour, 1.33:1
mono, English
Series: Survivors (1975-1977) – series 1, episode 1
A British science fiction television episode directed by Pennant Roberts.
Plot Summary
An accident in a laboratory in Asia releases a highly virulent and deadly flu-like virus which rapidly spreads around the world. As society breaks down around her and with her husband dead, Abby Grant decides to set out to find her son Peter who is at boarding school. Elsewhere, secretary Jenny Richards has just watched her friend die and other survivors are coming to terms with the fact that nothing will ever be the same again.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Pennant Roberts
© BBC 1975
BBC
Series Created by: Terry Nation
Producer: Terence Dudley
Production Unit Manager: Landon Revitt
[Written] By: Terry Nation
Studio Lighting: Peter Winn
Film Cameraman: Nat Crosby
Technical Manager: Bernard Fox *
Film Editor: Chris Wimble
Vision Mixer: John Barclay *
Title Music by: Anthony Isaac
Studio Sound: Alan Fogg
Film Sound: Simon Wilson
Grams Operator: Mike Bartley *
Costume: June Wilson
Costume Assistant: Ros Ebbutt *
Make Up: Lisa Rothwell
Make Up Assistants: Judy Cain, Jane Boak, Lyn Clarke *
Designer: Austin Ruddy
Film Designer: Val Warrender
Dressers: Janice Booth *, Alice Gilbert *, Dennis Brack *, Steve Pokol *, Richard Blanchard *
Property Buyer: Roger Williams *
Production Assistant: Anne Faggetter
Assistant Floor Manager: Chris Green *
Assistant: Mary Holdsworth *
Floor Assistant: Geoff Posner *
Artists Contracts Assistant: Angela Heathcote *
Cast
Carolyn Seymour (Abby Grant)
Lucy Fleming (Jenny Richards)
Talfryn Thomas (Tom Price)
Peter Bowles (David Grant)
Peter Copley ( Bronson)
Christopher Reich (Andrew Tyler)
Margaret Anderson (Mrs Transon)
Callum Mill ( Gordon)
Blake Butler (Mr Pollard)
Elizabeth Sinclair (Patricia)
Giles Melville (Kevin Lloyd)
Len Jones (first youth)
Paul Carter [doctor] *
Maureen Niel, Dotlyn Kidd, Nicole Lee [nurse] *
Patrick Nono, Terry Sartain [auxiliaries] *
Ernest Blyth, Eden Fox, Paul Phillips, Geoffrey Brighty, Fred Davis, Charles Stuart, David Wilde, Jackie Bristow, Eve Aubrey, Annette Peters, Sylvia Lane, Martine Holland, Rosa Gold, Audrey Searle, Graham Tonbridge, John Tucker, Fred Bourne, David Pike, Gary Lean, Bill Lodge, Alan Gibbs, Paddy McQueen, Frances St Barbe West, Amanda Carlson, Anna Von Karina, Jackie Blackmore, Barbara Burnell, Iris Fry, Edward Brett, Ashley Keech, Huntley Young, Jules Walter, Jean St Louis, Kathy Thomas, Tony Harris [patients] *
References
Books
- The Making of Terry Nation’s Survivors by Kevin P. Marshall (ed.) pp.97-103 – credits, synopsis, production notes
