History Series / Survivors

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Despite FightingForSurvival in a world without running water and electricity, the women have perfectly sleeked hair and wear make up, Tom is always freshly shaved, and everybody has clean, smooth clothes.

* FightingForSurvival

* BrandX: Nearly totally averted- a looter is seen hanged in a Netto and the logos of many a major UK shop are to be seen.

** There is no reluctance in calling Greg's Land Rover a Land Rover, to the point where Billy raves about how awesome they are. (As opposed to ''Series/DoctorWho'', also made by TheBBC, where they're inexplicably and incorrectly referred to as jeeps.)
* CliffHanger: the last episode of both seasons.
* CoolCar: The Land Rover Defender

* FreeRangeChildren: Naj does this in the second series when waiting for Abby. Justified as due to the post-apocalyptic situation, rules are a little different.
* GoodIsNotNice: Tom, who is ''very'' morally questionable despite being in Abby’s group. Also, Samantha, the last remaining [[spoiler: (or is she?)]] government official – good, arguably. Nice? Not always.
* HearingVoices: in the first season, Naj brings home a group of people following John, a "preacher" who hears God/Mother Nature ever since the epidemic, which he sees as [[{{GaiasVengeance}} Gaia's revenge]]. After someone he cares for has a brush with death, he becomes [[spoiler: paranoid, and Anya works out that he's schizophrenic and has been off his medication since everything went down]]. This is particularly bad as his wife is about to give birth, and he may be dangerous...

* MustMakeAmends: in the season 2 opener, [[spoiler: Anya and Al]] are buried alive when a burning hospital collapses on top of them. Turns out the building was set on fire by locals who wanted to get rid of the hundreds of bodies and thus of the contagion risk. When they find out there are casualties, the locals team up to try and save them.
* NoBisexuals: Averted. Ooooh... So they were more than just ''college roomates''...
* RedundantRescue: The group goes out to rescue [[spoiler: Tom from enslavement]], only to realize once they get there that that he's already escaped.
* RousingSpeech: Several of these are given by Abby throughout the series, especially when trying to convince the group that they needed to stick together.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Two of them - Samantha Willis, willing to do whatever it takes to restore order and Whitaker, willing to kill in the search for a cure.

* RealityEnsues: A second-season episode deals with the heroes' realization that as (mostly) a bunch of former suburbanites, they really have no clue how to run a functioning farm.

* TheOtherDarrin: At least three characters were played by two different actors, in one case because the original had a nervous breakdown.

* RealLifeRelative: Both John and Lizzie were played by children of members of the show's production crew.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's the [[NeverWhere Marquis de Carabas]]! And [[Series/DoctorWho Martha Jones]]! And [[Film/{{Glitter}} Dice]], even though he would like to forget that...

* TooSoon: the second season was somewhat delayed because of swine flu.

->''Every new person feels like a gift.''

Originally a 1975 post-apocalyptic drama created by TerryNation for TheBBC. It ran for three seasons (the second and third without Nation's involvement), then was "re-imagined" and re-launched in 2008, this time lasting two seasons before being canceled. Officially, the new series was based on an original-series novelization which Nation wrote.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's the [[NeverWhere Marquis de Carabas]]! And [[Series/DoctorWho Martha Jones]]! And [[{{Glitter}} Dice]], even though he would like to forget that...

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Wendy]] in "Law and Order".

* KillTheCutie: [spoiler: Wendy]] in "Law and Order".

[[GallowsHumor Well, look on the bright side. Global warming's not going to be a problem any more...]]

Well, look on the bright side. Global warming's not going to be a problem any more...

* NoBikesInTheApocalypse: Subverted, if only for one episode.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Abby in season two; the characters aren't able to confirm it, but the strong implication is that eventually [[CharacterOutlivesActor she died]].]]

* DeadStarWalking: In both, a high-profile actor (PeterBowles and FreemaAgyeman, respectively) appeared in the first episode, only for their character to die unexpectedly.

* OneSceneWonder: ''Lots'' of people quickly come and go, but [[Series/DoctorWho Patrick Troughton]] stands out in his one-scene turn as a [[spoiler:doomed]] river-barge operator.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: despite FightingForSurvival in a world without running water and electricity, the women have perfectly sleeked hair and wear make up, Tom is always freshly shaved, and everybody has clean, smooth clothes.
* BrandX: nearly totally averted- a looter is seen hanged in a Netto and the logos of many a major UK shop are to be seen.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Al in the season two opener]]

* FridgeLogic: Why are characters limiting themselves to pistols and shotguns? There's entire military arsenals out there.
** If Britain's gone off air, have the [[http://grayee.blogspot.com/2008/12/letters-of-very-last-resort.html letters of last resort]] on the [[UltimateDefenceOfTheRealm UK's nuclear missile submarines]] been opened? If so, what's happened?
*** Since the plague played out over time the nuclear subs would have been able to monitor the progress of the plague through public broadcasts and dispatches from their command authority. Doubtless the same would have happened with the SSBN fleets of the United States, Russia and any other navy operating such submarines.

* HearingVoices: in the first season, Naj brings home a group of people following John, a "preacher" who hears God/Mother Nature ever since the epidemics, which he sees as [[{{GaiasVengeance}} Gaia's revenge]]. After someone he cares for has a brush with death, he becomes [[spoiler: paranoid, and Anya works out that he's schizophrenic and has quit taking his medication]].

* TrueCompanions: Abby's group of survivors

* GoodIsNotNice: Tom, who is ''very'' morally questionable despite being in Abby’s group. Also, Samantha, the last remaining [[spoiler: (or is she?)]] government official – good, arguably. Nice? Not always.

* WhatKeptYou: The group goes out to rescue [[spoiler: Tom from enslavement]], only to realize once they get there that that he's already escaped.

Originally a 1975 post-apocalyptic drama created by TerryNation for TheBBC. It ran for three seasons (the second and third without Nation's involvement), then was "re-imagined" and re-launched in 2008, this time lasting two seasons before being canceled. Officially, the new series was based a original-series novelization which Nation wrote.

* AfterTheEnd: Virus version
* ApocalypseHow: Level One and a high one at that, but the existence of human knowledge in book form keeps it from a Level Two

* BrandX: nearly totally averted- a looter is seen hanged in a Netto and the logos of many a major UK shop are to be seen

* FridgeLogic: Why are characters limiting themselves to pistols and shotguns? There's entire military arsenals out there

* ShootTheDog: Or rather the looter, as the former government minister has to prevent a large-scale loss of authority in her commune
* ShowerOfAngst: ''cold'' and brief one, taken by Abby after waking up from her virus-attack. It's brief as the water packs up after about fifteen seconds.

* {{Nakama}}: Abby's group of survivors

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Abby in season two; the characters aren't able to confirm it, but the strong implication is that eventually [[DiedOnABus she died]].]]

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