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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2017 14:35:47 GMT
Just bought these two boxsets, Doomwatch 1970-72 and Survivors 1975-77 They're quite quirky! and definitely worth a watch! Anybody remember then!??
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Post by Bojan Scores on Feb 19, 2017 13:19:31 GMT
Not seen them, but definitely the kind of thing I'd like. Post apocalypse themes featured heavily in films, TV, pop music, and the popular imagination in the 60s and especially the 1970s. I'm a fan of the BBCs version of Day of the Triffids, which is in a similar vein. It looks like the Post apocalyptic genre is making a comeback what with the current rash of zombie films. I particularly liked a film called 'The Road', very unsettling.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 14:02:05 GMT
Yes I remember the day of the triffids! Guess that was an era when a lot of stuff like that was about! Always found invasion of the body snatchers, the version with Donald Sutherland quite scary, it's the whole conspiracy thing. The thing with Survivors' is it can be a bit slow in places, and even though a bit low budget, over all the story is good! a guess you have to use your imagination! But at the time back then in 1975' I bet it was a lot better, in maybe an era when people were a bit less cynical. These days you are more decensetised, and it takes a lot more imagination in film' for you to be spooked! Lol.. Maybe in a way, the film 28 days later' is similar to, Survivors' but a more modern look, if ya know what I mean.. But a guess if ya in doubt, A Double Diamond! Can work wonders 😆
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 15, 2017 23:42:03 GMT
I'm a fan of both. Just finished watching Doomwatch, or what episodes are left of it as many were wiped. I noticed it got mocked recently on 'The Best Of Bad TV' or whatever the clips show was, but it's a show that was ahead of its time, as Robert Powell who played Toby Wren in the show says, 'everything in it has come true'. One example of this is an episode about the dangers of lead in petrol, at the time the motor industry said that unleaded petrol was something that would never happen.
Survivors, made by some of the same team as Doomwatch, is also interesting for similar reasons. Asking questions about how mankind would survive if we reverted to the Middle Ages & had to re-learn everything. Both shows were repeated on UK Gold but haven't been shown again on the BBC so they have a cult audience. You have to buy the dvd set & get into it to appreciate it.
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 4, 2019 21:15:10 GMT
Too young to be allowed to watch Doomwatch at the time but just watched it on DVD, whats left of it and found it a very good watch, particularly Quist.
The original Survivors was very good, much more atmospheric than the dismal remake.
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 22, 2019 20:39:44 GMT
As often, its the actors that make the show. The Quist character in Doomwatch is an engaging watch, IMO.
Plus they did have some thought provoking plots, plastic eating virus for example.
They did a remake with Trevor Eve, didn't work.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Mar 22, 2019 22:32:10 GMT
They did a remake with Trevor Eve, didn't work. Probably because the budget was on a shoestring. Gene Genie.
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 24, 2019 9:45:38 GMT
They did a remake with Trevor Eve, didn't work. Probably because the budget was on a shoestring. Gene Genie. .....and actually correct! Those BBC sci-fi shows did suffer from that. Contrast that with most of the Gerry Anderson ITV shows that had excellent model and effects, generally anyway. Derek Meddings who was behind many of the effects when on to work on the Bond and Superman films of course, to great effect. Pun intended.
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Post by Three Litre on Feb 14, 2021 19:33:22 GMT
Just bought these two boxsets, Doomwatch 1970-72 and Survivors 1975-77 They're quite quirky! and definitely worth a watch! Anybody remember then!?? I have been re-watching Survivors on Britbox, saw it first time round in '75. Someone on here commented that the child actors were poor and they definitely were, they both children of one of the writers and the director. I'm afraid that it looked liked a case of giving jobs to your family rather than who deserved it, very unconvincing whereas most the rest of the acting is fine. Some of episodes are a bit thin plot wise. Funny thing is the series starts with a virus escaping from a possible chinese or asian lab ................................
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Feb 14, 2021 20:18:50 GMT
Yes the two kids are annoying. I started to watch it again last year thinking I'd probably not get another opportunity to see it during a real life virus pandemic.
The problem with Survivors is that, apart from 2 episodes set in London, it's set in the country, which is quiet & sparsely populated compared to a town/city anyway. So instead of getting a sense of how the nation might fare after a devastating virus, you get people in a big country house squabbling constantly over food & petrol.
Most post apocalyptic films or tv shows are set in the country as it's obviously impractical to create the conditions in a town or city. You'd need to film very late or very early to get a sense of depopulation. In fact if anyone wanted to make such a show, now would be the ideal time!
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