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Harold Robbins' The Survivors

1969 · 1 season · 1h per episode · Drama

The Survivors is a high-profile prime time soap opera aired by the ABC television network as part of its Fall 1969 lineup. This program is probably most noted now for having been the only appearance as a regular series character of major Hollywood actress Lana Turner, and also starred other "big names" such as Jan-Michael Vincent, Ralph Bellamy, Diana Muldaur, George Hamilton, Clu Gulager, and Natalie Schafer. Despite their presence, and that above the title of bestselling author Harold Robbins, since the characters were from his novel of the same name, the program was a ratings fiasco, losing badly to Mayberry R.F.D. and The Doris Day Show on CBS and The NBC Monday Movie on NBC. A program as expensive to produce as this one must garner large ratings in order to be successful, so it was cancelled at midseason, although it was rerun the following summer in an attempt to recoup at least some of the investment.

Seasons

• Season 1 — 14 episodes (September 29, 1969)

Cast

• Lana Turner as Tracy Carlyle Hastings
• George Hamilton as Duncan Carlyle
• Kevin McCarthy as Philip Hastings
• Ralph Bellamy as Baylor Carlyle
• Rossano Brazzi as Antaeus Riakos
• Diana Muldaur as Belle Wheeler
• Louis Hayward as Jonathan Carlyle
• Louise Sorel as Jean Vale
• Jan-Michael Vincent as Jeffrey Hastings
• Robert Lipton as Tom Steinberg
• Katherine Cannon as Sheila Riley
• Robert Viharo as Miguel Santerra

Details

Created by

Richard De Roy, Michael Gleason and Harold Robbins

First aired

September 22, 1969

Episodes

14

Genres

Drama

Network

ABC

Status

Ended

TMDB score

9.0 / 10 from 1 votes