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The Last Train : Season 1
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Air date: 07 Apr '99 - 6 episodesThe Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by Matthew Graham and produced for ITV by Granada Television. In the United States, the Fox Network purchased the rights to produce a new version of the series soon after its original UK transmission. Retitled The Ark, the idea did not progress beyond the pilot stage. As of May 2013, the series has not been released on DVD or any other format, and has never aired in the US.
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List of Episodes (6)
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The Last Train (1999)
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1. Episode 1
07 Apr '99Harriet Ambrose, a government technician, is travelling from London to Sheffield, aware of a pending cataclysm. As the train she is on enters a tunnel, a meteorite the size of Birmingham strikes the Earth.
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2. Episode 2
08 Apr '99The survivors explore the ruins of Sheffield city centre in a search for friends and family, but find no survivors. The group desperately needs to find a supply of fresh water, and Harriet leads them to the bunker, and possible salvation. They are confronted by evidence of fellow survivors, but it is of an unwelcome nature.
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3. Episode 3
15 Apr '99The survivors head out of the city towards the Ark, and search for food and water. A trip to an abandoned factory complex has tragic consequences.
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4. Episode 4
22 Apr '99Jandra is seriously injured, but the group needs to press on with their journey. Their progress is blocked by an unfordable river, but Hild leads her new friends to medical facilities, and into danger.
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5. Episode 5
29 Apr '99The travellers take refuge in a village and meet the last survivors of a failed community, but their hosts present a threat to the group and the hunters are in pursuit.
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6. Episode 6
06 May '99The survivors reach the Ark, where they discover the truth about Hild's people.
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