Fifty years ago, schoolboy Phil was knocked out by a British science fiction TV show, the post-apocalyptic Survivors . Created by Terry Nation - who also created Doctor Who 's recurring enemy the Daleks and Blakes Seven - Survivors ran for three seasons. And it's had a long afterlife as a cult favourite, and as a long-running audio drama starring many of the original cast. Survivors was about a plague which wipes out 99.998% of the world's population, and its aftermath. It follows the struggles of a handful of British people to survive and rebuild after the collapse of civilisation. It's uncomfortably close to what we all experienced when COVID-19 came along, but thankfully COVID wasn't as deadly as the Survivors plague. Today, Phil has persuaded Colin to take a first look at this sometimes harrowing (but ultimately life-affirming) '70s classic, and together they discuss some selected episodes from the series. As we announ...