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Recording Dates


Survivors was recorded over three years between 1975 and 1977. The first series was recorded in transmission order, but series two and three were recorded very much out of sequence. All 38 episodes of Survivors are listed below in production order...
The Fourth Horseman (1.1) 18th - 19th February 1975
Genesis (1.2) 28th February - 1st March 1975
Gone Away (1.3) 11th - 12th March 1975
Corn Dolly (1.4) 21st - 22nd March 1975
Gone to the Angels (1.5) 1st - 2nd April 1975
Garland's War (1.6) 11th - 12th April 1975
Starvation (1.7) 21st - 25th April 1975
Spoil of War (1.8) 28th April - 1st May 1975
Law and Order (1.9) 12th - 16th May 1975
The Future Hour (1.10) 20th - 24th May 1975
Revenge (1.11) 28th May - 1st June 1975
Something of Value (1.12) 5th - 9th June 1975
A Beginning (1.13) 13th - 17th June 1975
The Witch (2.6) 3rd - 7th January 1976
Greater Love (2.2) 11th - 16th January 1976
Birth of a Hope (2.1) 20th - 25th January 1976
The Lights of London 1 (2.3) 24th - 25th February 1976
The Lights of London 2 (2.4) 5th - 6th March 1976
The Chosen (2.9) 16th - 17th March 1976
Face of the Tiger (2.5) 6th - 11th April 1976
By Bread Alone (2.8) 15th - 20th April 1976
A Friend In Need (2.7) 24th - 29th April 1976
Parasites (2.10) 3rd - 8th May 1976
New Arrivals (2.11) 12th - 17th May 1976
Over the Hills (2.12) 21st - 26th May 1976
New World (2.13) 30th May - 4th June 1976
Law of the Jungle (3.3) 15th - 21st January 1977
Bridgehead (3.5) 7th - 12th February 1977
Manhunt (3.1) 17th - 23rd February 1977
Sparks (3.8) 1st - 6th March 1977
A Little Learning (3.2) 12th - 17th March 1977
Mad Dog (3.4) 12th - 13th March 1977
The Last Laugh (3.10) 23rd - 28th March 1977
Reunion (3.6) 3rd - 8th March 1977
The Peacemaker (3.7) 14th - 18th April 1977
The Enemy (3.9) 24th - 30th April 1977
Long Live the King (3.11) 6th - 11th May 1977
Power (3.12) 26th - 28th May 1977



Recording Trivia

Some examples of the strange circumstances that arose due to some episodes being filmed out of
order include:

- Christopher Tranchell recording Paul's death scene in Greater Love and then a further episode as
Paul, alive and well in
Birth of a Hope, the season opener.

- Gigi Gatti appearing as Daniella throughout By Bread Alone, before subsequently filming her
arrival scene in
A Friend In Need.

- Anna Pitt's first scene as Agnes being her reunion with Charles and Jenny in Law of the Jungle.

- An injured Charles being shown to return to the Walter's farm in Bridgehead after his adventures
in rabies country, before
Mad Dog had even been filmed.

- Half of series three being filmed after Greg's fate had already gone before the cameras.

- Lorna Lewis, Gordon Salkilld and the children already filming daily life at Sloton Spencer in
The Last Laugh before the characters arrived there, supposedly for the first time, in Reunion.



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