http://www.astrodiary.co.uk the astrologers' newsletter Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:27:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.astrodiary.co.uk/2008/12/survivors/ http://www.astrodiary.co.uk/2008/12/survivors/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:49:31 +0000 Val http://localhost/wordpresstransit/?p=68 Survivors. What can the astrology of this and other 'cult' series tell us? Continue reading →]]> The BBC has remade one of its classic serials, Survivors.  The first episode of the original series was broadcast at 20:10 BST (19:10 GMT) 16th April 1975 (time taken from a scan of the original Radio Times page). A chart set for London has 29Libra rising,  with Uranus at 00Scorpio and Aquarius  on the IC – this strong Uranian emphasis shows how revolutionary such a programme was at the time (co-incidentally, Bill Gates had founded Microsoft just 12 days before).  The first episode of the new series was broadcast at 21:00 GMT on 23rd November 2008; this chart has 9Leo rising – the same degree as the MC of the 1975 chart.
As Paul Newman has shown in his articles about the Dr Who TV series – especially A New Dr Who in Transit May 2004 (on the web at  http://tinyurl.com/6lbgwp), the charts of popular TV shows often reflect their times.   If you don’t remember it, Survivors is about the aftermath of a plague that wipes out 95% of the world’s population; the survivors must suddenly learn how to live without any of the benefits of a technological civilisation.  Its revival and broadcast now, when everyone is learning how fragile the world’s economy is,  is eerily prescient.

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