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Looking for a simular show form the same time

posted 10 years ago by fmvd2000
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About 15 years ago I watched TV movie that I thought was called Survivors and may have been cut down from a seasons worth of episodes to two hours of an English TV show

It was the same set up as Survivors and made in the same time or a few years later and the same level of production

It starts with a plague of course and a one eyed retired army doctor and his daughter and her banker white collar fiance head to the Doctor's brother's farm, along the way other people join him and lots of footage o pushing prams loaded with supplies across hills and fields. They are attacked by a biker gang but one of the bikers join the group and the daughter dumps her boy friend for the new guy because she says in the new world he makes her feel safe. In the end they get to the farm and other people are already there and the movie ends with a battle

A friend got the survivors series from the library and i have seen some episodes from season 2 and 3 and described the show and she said that was not in the first season

Edit: Talking to some net friends from England they thought there is a slight chance it was a TV Movie put out as a one off by ITV to retain copyright on "The Survivors" and may or may not have had any thing to do with the series or any of the same characters or stars

[–] greg-233 10 years ago

From your description, it sounds like the film No Blade of Grass. There was a biker gang in that. But it came out in 1970, five years before Survivors:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066154/

A link to a photo from No Blade of Grass:

http://www.listal.com/viewimage/2561843

[–] fmvd2000 10 years ago

Yeah that is it, it may have been shown under a different name on late night TV and the flash forwards they mention may have been why i thought it was a cut down series.

[–] greg-233 10 years ago

I haven't seen No Blade of Grass, but I've read the book it was based on, which was called The Death of Grass. I reread it every now and then. It's a good survival story. The book cover shows an aerial view of London devastated by an atomic bomb, with a big crater near Tower Bridge. The author John Christopher didn't see the film when it came out, he saw it on late night TV. He said ten minutes was all he could stand.

[–] hansons-160-801817 10 years ago

The movie sounds like a very bad version of the book. Personally I think the book is worth reading even though it was written so long ago.