Forget the 2008 remake, the grim dystopian societal breakdown of the original is where it’s at and with the current climate like it is, it also becomes a handy tips guide to what we can expect when the shit hits the fan (luckily without a John Waters scratch ‘n’ sniff movie card) as NOGARD47 points out.

Between the original Survivors series, The Changes TV series, the lesser known Noah’s Castle TV series and the incredibly underrated UK film ‘No Blade Of Grass’ along with shows like Doomwatch and Quatermass 1979 - all these shows pretty much primed many of us growing up in the 70s for an apocalyptic future British style.
I know when the first lockdown occurred and I went into my local Tescos and witnessed the panic buying and empty shelves I instantly flashed back to all those 7Os TV apocalyptica.
Though this screws up the neat seventies chronology as it was made in 1983, the daddy of them all for me is the nuclear post apocalypse drama Threads, partly because I only lived about 12 miles outside Sheffield where the action took place and partly because the rat on a stick outdoor takeaway scene has always been my subsequent yardstick of “well, things aren’t quite that bad yet”.

i like the remake a bit better. it has the same name.