EDITOR’S NOTE: Survivor was on the CBS Late Movie on April 7 and August 3, 1988.

A man known only as The Survivor (Christopher Mayer) returned from space ten years ago to find the Earth looking like the cover of Defcon-4. And yes, that is Vance Duke, the man who tried to ruin many a childhood when Bo and Luke had a contractual dispute.

He’s met less than a handful of people in ten years of wandering the nuclear cursed lands and even meets a woman (Sue Kiel) who claims to know of a city filled with people. She’s kidnapped before she can tell him more, which leads to him searching for her.

Who kidnapped her? Well, seeing as how this was made in 1987, this movie is contractually obligated to have Richard Moll as the bad guy, Kragg. Don’t be confused if you saw the 1998 film The Survivor, in which Moll plays Kyla.

This movie may move a bit slow, as it is mostly told through narration and flashbacks. Kragg’s plan is to repopulate the Earth by taking every woman and fertilizing them, while encouraging suicides to keep the numbers low. He also wants to castrate The Survivor, which seems like a pretty rude way to deal with an enemy. At least let them keep their cock!

Director Michael Shackleton only directed this one film but did shoot two different Benji movies. It was written by Bima Stagg and Martin Wragge. Wragge produced another Stagg script for Black Trash and also wrote The Last Warrior, which sounds like an end of the world movie, but is not.

Shot in South Africa and distributed by Vestron, this is way more high falutin of post nuke movie than you’d expect from Vance Duke and Bull Shannon. Did you know Bull’s first name was Nostradamus? As slow as this plays, I can’t even imagine how long it seemed with commercials when it played the CBS Late Movie.

Byron Cherry, who played Coy Duke, never got to be in a post-apocalyptic movie. He did, however, show up in Blood Salvage.

You can watch this on YouTube.