SURVIVORS REUNITED

IN THE LIST OF TERRY NATION’S artistic triumphs, Survivors has always tended to come a poor third, after creating the Daleks and writing Blake’s 7. Yet recently, for obvious reasons, Survivors is back on everybody’s lips

“You know, I’ve been thinking about it a lot,” says Lucy Fleming, who played Jenny Richards in the series all those years ago. “And people have been mentioning it to me a lot, saying ‘Does this ring a bell?’”

It was on 16 April 1975 that BBC One viewers witnessed the end of the world as they knew it. In ’ first episode, ‘The Fourth Horseman’, we see Home Counties England ravaged by a deadly plague, one lethal enough to even wipe out Peter Bowles. By the time the end credits rolled, 95% of the world’s population had been decimated by the flu-like