Editing Protect and Survive (section)

===Television===
[[Image:Protect And Survive logo.png|right|thumb|150px|The ''Protect and Survive'' end credit seen at the end of each film accompanied by a circle animation and electronic musical phrase composed by [[Roger Limb]]]] ''Protect and Survive'' was adapted for television as a series of twenty short [[public information film]]s. The films were [[classified information|classified]], intended for transmission on all television channels if the government determined that nuclear attack was likely within 72 hours. However, recordings leaked to [[CND]] and the [[BBC]], who broadcast excerpts from them on ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' on 10 March 1980, shortly after the [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]].<ref name="panorama">{{cite episode | title=If the Bomb Drops | series=Panorama | network=British Broadcasting Corporation | airdate=10 March 1980}}</ref>

The films were produced by Richard Taylor Cartoons, who also produced the ''[[Charley Says]]'' child safety films and children's animation ''[[Crystal Tipps and Alistair]]'',<ref name="Young2019" /> and were ready for use by at least 1975,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_warnings.htm|title=Protect & Survive – Casualties|website=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]]|access-date=30 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622211232/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_warnings.htm|archive-date=22 June 2011}}</ref> with rough cuts being screened at the Central Office of Information in November of that year.<ref name="Young2019" /> They were similar in content to the pamphlet, detailing the same instructions using voice-over narration, sound effects, and a combination of simple [[Stop-motion animation|stop-motion]] and [[Traditional animation|illustrated]] animation. [[Patrick Allen (actor)|Patrick Allen]] was chosen to narrate. His voiceover was later described as "the calm, clipped vowels of a male announcer, advising how to build shelters, avoid fallout, and wrap up your dead loved ones in [[polythene]], bury them, and tag their bodies."<ref name="newstatesman2018" /> He later parodied the recordings for [[Frankie Goes To Hollywood]]'s song "[[Two Tribes]]", announcing "Mine is the last voice you will ever hear. Do not be alarmed".<ref name="newstatesman2018">{{cite news | last=Rogers | first=Jude | date=2018-03-17 | title=Here come the bombs: the making of Threads, the nuclear war film that shocked a generation | url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2018/03/here-come-bombs-making-threads-nuclear-war-film-shocked-generation | work=[[New Statesman]] | location=London | access-date=2019-10-12}}</ref>

Each episode concluded with a distinctive electronic musical phrase composed by the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]]'s [[Roger Limb]]. It featured two high- and low-pitched melodies coming together "like people". So great was the secrecy around production that Limb handed over his tapes to producer Bruce Allen in an alley.<ref name="newstatesman2018"/>

{|class="wikitable"
|+List of ''Protect and Survive'' films<ref name="iwm-list">{{cite web|last3=Allen|first3=Patrick|author1=Home Office|author2=Central Office of Information|title=Protect and Survive [Main Title]|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060022098|website=Imperial War Museums|access-date=18 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018032643/https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060022098|archive-date=18 October 2023|location=London|language=en-gb|date=1980}}</ref>
|-
! {{abbr|No.|Number}}
! Title
! Length
! Notes
|-
|  1.
| "Nuclear Explosions Explained"
| 1:35
| Effects of atomic weapons
|-
|  2.
| "The Warnings"
| 2:53
| Attack, fall-out and all-clear warnings
|-
|  3.
| "What to Do When the Warnings Sound"
| 2:28
| "Immediate action" drill
|-
|  4.
| "Stay at Home"
| 1:40
| Techniques for sheltering in place
|-
|  5.
| "Choosing a Fall-out Room"
| 2:06
| Choosing a safe room
|-
|  6.
| "Refuges"
| 3:54
| Building an "inner refuge"
|-
|  7.
| "Materials to Use for Your Fall-out Room and Refuge"
| 1:55
| Radiation shielding materials
|-
|  8.
| "Make Your Fall-out Room and Refuge Now"
| 4:42
| Preparing for an attack
|-
|  9.
| "What to Put in Your Fall-out Room"
| 3:03
| Essential supplies
|-
| 10.
| "Action After Warnings"
| 4:13
| Detailed "immediate action" drill
|-
| 11.
| "Water and Food"
| 2:41
| Provisions for 14 days
|-
| 12.
| "Sanitation"
| 1:33
| Makeshift toilet arrangements
|-
| 13.
| "Fire Precautions"
| 2:02
| Expedient firefighting techniques
|-
| 14.
| "The Importance of Your Radio"
| 1:20
| Portable radio as a vital aid
|-
| 15.
| "Life Under Fall-out Conditions"
| 2:51
| Survival during an attack
|-
| 16.
| "What to Do After an Attack"
| 2:29
| Post-attack actions
|-
| 17.
| "Sanitation Care"
| 2:40
| Essential hygiene
|-
| 18.
| "Water Consumption"
| 1:28
| Safeguarding and rationing water
|-
| 19.
| "Food Consumption"
| 1:40
| Rationing food
|-
| 20.
| "Casualties"
| 1:27
| Advice on casualty care and mortuary actions
|}

The "Refuges" film was originally meant to cover outdoor bunkers as well as indoor shelters but the relevant scenes were cut;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=Taras |title=Scrapped fallout shelter scene from Protect and Survive |url=https://coldwar.org.uk/scrapped-fallout-shelter-scene-from-protect-and-survive/ |website=Nuclear War in the UK |access-date=12 April 2025 |date=2 August 2018}}</ref> the subject of outdoor shelters was later covered in the ''Domestic Nuclear Shelters'' series of publications.<ref name=youngdomnucshel />