In 1965, the powerful documentary filmmaker Peter Watkins made the amazing “Culloden” – a documentary about the 1746 Jacobite uprising, done in the style of the Vietnam War reporting being done at the time. The docudrama was widely praised and went on to win a BAFTA award for its innovative style. Following on that success, his next project was intended to be aired as a documentary special airing on the 20th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. The War Game was presented as a documentary detailing the events leading up to and then following a nuclear attack on Britain by the Soviet Union. Before it could be aired, however, it was pulled from release by the BBC because it was deemed “…too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting.”



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Writer Terry Nation is probably best know as the creator of the Daleks, the most popular recurring monsters on the television show Doctor Who. First appearing in the second ever storyline in the series, the Daleks (and by extension, Terry Nation) were responsible for a huge ratings success on the BBC and spawned a national craze in the United Kingdom. A decade later Terry Nation created a new series for the BBC called “Survivors” which ran for three seasons from 1975 – 1978. The storyline followed a small group of people who survive a plague that kills most of the Earth’s population.



The Logo for the original series

In the original series (which unfortunately I have never seen, but would be keen to watch), the story begins with the mysterious pandemic and then gradually builds a cast of characters who eventually group together to try to build a new...