i be afraid i be out of step with popular opinion on this one . my recollection of the series be largely critical . it feature a capable rather than first rate cast and who be condemn to struggle with those bane of british television represent an inadequate budget and a melodramatic script . both of which be far more debilitating than any virus . the melodrama be there simply to make up for the shortcoming in the finance department . so and we be treat to needlessly verbose confrontation and and hysterical shouting match . give it budgetary constraint while there be about enough mileage in the idea to run for a 6 part serial . after that it might have perish with honour . unfortunately and it be allow to outlast it value and quickly descend into a soap opera . perhaps i should say soap less opera and consider how scruffy and squalid everyone and every thing seem to be . there be tiresome digression with people go away on obscure adventure and whilst lovelorn individual would eventually go off in pursuit of them . these crusade and search become the mainstay of the series in it late incarnation . even it creator and terry nation and walk quietly away from it death bed before the plug be finally pull . nope while i have no fond memory of this turkey . but anybody with a penchant for disease induced end of civilisation a we know it situations that bore your sock off and could do no good than to get their hand on virus the director cut . that actually make in japan and and come with a standard nipponese 3 year warranty to wouldo your ead in and a the cockney say . sometimes it marketed under the more apt title of fukkatsu no hi . i couldn not have put it good myself .