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Survivors – Gone to the Angels

H E Cooper — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:00:32 +0000

Our survivors experience more disappointments, but their little family unit is growing. Snatches of hope drive Abby and the others forward this episode. She returns to the school, with the older teacher now gone. Interestingly, she doesn’t find his body and we’re left wondering what actually happened to him. When she’s in the chapel, there …

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Survivors – Corn Dolly

H E Cooper — Tue, 30 May 2023 20:49:47 +0000

When I saw this episode’s title appear onscreen, it seemed vaguely familiar but I couldn’t remember what a corn dolly was. I was hoping it wasn’t going to end up as a metaphor for something horrific here because I didn’t fancy an evening that climaxed with The Wicker Man-type terrors. After all the opening grimness, …

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Survivors – Gone Away

H E Cooper — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 09:34:40 +0000

Abby has started to establish her own little group but we soon see that, even with hardly any other people around, some of the Survivors are still truly terrible human beings. Whatever this plague was, it’s looking highly doubtful that it was divine intervention. Why couldn’t only the nice ones survive? Looting At some point, …

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Survivors – Genesis

H E Cooper — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:21:14 +0000

Last episode’s title represented Death and I like that the biblical namings have continued with Genesis – the first book in the Bible – offering us a new beginning. Can Terry Nation keep these up? I hope so, even if my own biblical knowledge may become stretched quite quickly. If The Fourth Horseman was brutal …

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Survivors – The Fourth Horseman

H E Cooper — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:10:50 +0000

After getting so much enjoyment from Blake’s 7, I was keen to explore other work from its contributors. I’d seen various versions of Terry Nation Bingo and 1975’s Survivors seemed to tick the kind of boxes I liked. A box set emerged from my stocking on Christmas Day 2020… I initially liked the idea of …

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