[3] Under the cover of a meteor shower, a UFO manages to evade SHADO's tracking and land on the Moon.
[4][5] Locations used for the filming included Neptune House at ATV Elstree Studios, Borehamwood; and Windermere Hall, London.
He argues that the scenes showing the uneasy alliance between Foster and the alien fail to convince, partly because the two space-suited characters are unable to communicate meaningfully with one other.
Muir also highlights a subplot in which Straker makes the black Lieutenant Bradley acting Moonbase commander despite the latter's concerns about being undermined by racism, which has supposedly disappeared in the near-future world of UFO: "Straker's hostility towards Bradley, bluntly informing him that he is the only one who still believes in racism, comes off in today's era as paternalistic and a bit condescending.
"[6] Ranking the UFO episodes from best to worst, review website anorakzone.com places "Survival" 15th, stating that the episode "sums up UFO in many ways, as it contains lots that's good and lots that's pretty terrible [...] However, it scores fairly high here for a customary dark twist, even if it doesn't all make perfect sense.