https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series) 1975–77 and 2008–2010. Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction drama television series created by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC, that broadcast from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an apocalyptic plague pandemic – a genetically modified form of influenza– which was accidentally released by a Chinese scientist and quickly spread across the world via air travel.