Imagine being the only survivor of a disease that kills every member of your family. Lovers, strangers, friends, nearly everyone you ever met. You are among the lonely few to live and now you must start over in a strange new world where everything that was once safe and familiar is now strange and dangerous. What would you do? Where would you go? Who could you trust?

Set in the near future, this gripping BBC drama Survivors focuses on the world in the aftermath of a devastating virus and the small, resilient group of people who, because they survived, must now live. The unlikely leader of this group of survivors is Abby who, fuelled by a determination to find her young son, proves far stronger than she could ever have imagined. She is joined by Greg, a good but private man; Anya, a doctor; Al, a playboy who becomes surrogate father to a young boy called Najid and, finally, Price – charismatic, urbane but unbeknownst to the others, a high security prisoner before the virus attack.

Survivors presents an opportunity for new beginnings, but with no electricity, no mobile phones, no running water, those who do survive now face terrible dangers – not just the daily struggle for food and water but also the threat from others who survived.

Survivors, written by Adrian Hodges (Primeval, Rome, Kavanagh QC) is a re-imagining of the classic 1970s BBC drama series which was based on the novel by Terry Nation. It launched in April 1975 and ran for 38 episodes over three series.