The Last Train

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The Last Train
Intro card for The Last Train'
Genre	Sci Fi/Drama
Running time	aprox. 50 minutes
Creator(s)	Matthew Graham
Starring	Nicola Walker Christopher Fulford Treva Etienne
Country of origin	UK
Original channel	ITV
Original run	April 7, 1999–May 6, 1999
No. of episodes	6
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The Last Train (Cruel Earth in Canada) was a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first aired on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999 and 2001 and on various occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel, although it has never been made available on DVD. 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 pilot stage.

Contents 1 Plot synopsis 2 Episodes 3 External links

[edit] Plot synopsis

Beginning in Sheffield, the location of the 1984 BBC nuclear holocaust drama Threads, it followed the survival of a group of passengers on a train who were cryogenically frozen when scientist Harriet Ambrose (Nicola Walker) was unable to get to the Ark in time to be with her boyfriend Jonathan Geddes (Ralph Brown). The journey that follows revolves on Harriet's obsession to reach the Ark and Jonathan despite several decades having passed.

Upon being unfrozen, Harriet and her fellow passengers explore a post-apocalyptic Sheffield with no survivors except a pack of rabid dogs. One of the passengers makes his way to his lockup garage and is able to start his Mercedes Sprinter van which enables the survivors to make their way to Scotland to find the Ark and hopefully more survivors.

[edit] Episodes

Screencap	Title	UK Airdate	#
	"Episode One"	April 7, 1999	01
	On a train heading for Sheffield only Harriet Jones knows what is about to happen; an impending collision with an asteroid. A canister of cryogenic material is dislodged from her rucksack and spills its contents into the train carriage, causing all the passengers to be cryogenically frozen. Revived some years later, the passengers emerge from the tunnel in which their train had previously crashed, into a very different world.
	"Episode Two"	April 8, 1999	02
	The group heads into the city to go to a government bunker and find clean water but all the supplies are gone; Johnathan leaves Harriet a cryptic message.
	"Episode Three"	April 15, 1999	03
	The group heads north to look for the mysterious ARK and Mick's van sinks into an old refinery.
	"Episode Four"	April 22, 1999	04
	Jandara is in a critical condition after falling from the refinery, and the group is attacked by men on horses and take Hild with them.
	"Episode Five"	April 29, 1999	05
	The survivors take refuge in an apparently abandoned village.
	"Episode Six"	May 5, 1999	03
	Finally arriving at ARK, Harriet is anxious to get inside to see Johnathan. Little do they realise though, that Hild's people are following.

[edit] External links

• The Last Train at the Internet Movie Database