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Blake's 7
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Blake's 7

Mon, Jan 2, 1978
  • Drama
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

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Cast

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  • Josette Simon
    Josette Simon
    as Dayna Mellanby
  • Michael Keating
    Michael Keating
    as Vila Restal
  • Paul Darrow
    Paul Darrow
    as Kerr Avon
  • Peter Tuddenham
    Peter Tuddenham
    as Slave / ORAC
  • Steven Pacey
    Steven Pacey
    as Del Tarrant
  • Glynis Barber
    Glynis Barber
    as Soolin
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Episodes

4 seasons · 52 episodes

Ended · 52 aired
Season 1
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Way Back
    Aired · Mon, Jan 2, 1978 · 50m

    Rog Blake is asked to stop eating food and drink for a period of time by a woman he knows. Then he is taken to a private meeting outside the dome that his group of people are living in. He is told some startling news then arrested by Federation forces. After watching innocent people shot down, he seems to regain his memories.

  • E2
    Space Fall
    Aired · Mon, Jan 9, 1978 · 50m

    Blake and his companions are on the prison space transporter bound for Cygnus Alpha, but Blake has no intention of spending his life as a convict on a penal planet.

  • E3
    Cygnus Alpha
    Aired · Mon, Jan 16, 1978 · 50m

    In the alien spaceship which they have named Liberator, Blake, Jenna and Avon plan to free the prisoners held on Cygnus Alpha.

  • E4
    Time Squad
    Aired · Mon, Jan 23, 1978 · 50m

    On their way to attack the Federation communications complex on the planet Saurian Major, Blake and his crew discover a mysterious projectile drifting in space and take it on board the Liberator.

  • E5
    The Web
    Aired · Mon, Jan 30, 1978 · 50m

    Blake and his companions discover that Cally, their new crew member, has sabotaged the Liberator. Apparently out of control, the ship plunges on into uncharted space.

  • E6
    Seek-Locate-Destroy
    Aired · Mon, Feb 6, 1978 · 50m

    Stepping up his war against the Federation, Blake plans to steal the message decoder from a top security installation on the planet Centero. But things go badly wrong...

  • E7
    Mission to Destiny
    Aired · Mon, Feb 13, 1978 · 50m

    The crippled spaceship Ortega presents Blake and his companions with a series of mysteries. Who murdered the pilot and sabotaged the controls? What happened to the crew and why?

  • E8
    Duel
    Aired · Mon, Feb 20, 1978 · 50m

    The flight of Federation pursuit ships, commanded by Travis, finally succeed in trapping the Liberator.

  • E9
    Project Avalon
    Aired · Mon, Feb 27, 1978 · 50m

    Travis has devised an evil plan to destroy Blake and capture the Liberator. Even Servalan believes it cannot fail.

  • E10
    Breakdown
    Aired · Mon, Mar 6, 1978 · 50m

    There is an implant in Gan's brain that was designed to limit aggressive impulses, but what will happen when it malfunctions?

  • E11
    Bounty
    Aired · Mon, Mar 13, 1978 · 50m

    President Sarkoff is a prisoner of the Federation. While Blake and Cally are trying to rescue him the Liberator answers a distress call and runs into trouble.

  • E12
    Deliverance
    Aired · Mon, Mar 20, 1978 · 50m

    A spaceship crashes on the planet Cephlon. When the crew of the Liberator look for survivors they find their own survival threatened.

  • E13
    Orac
    Aired · Mon, Mar 27, 1978 · 50m

    What is the mysterious Orac? The Federation want it, but Blake must get to it first.

Season 2
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Redemption
    Aired · Tue, Jan 9, 1979 · 50m

    Blake and his crew witness an explosion that destroys their spaceship, The Liberator. The event is shown to them on a visual by Orac, the super-computer. Orac confirms this prediction but refuses to say when it will happen - but it will happen soon.

  • E2
    Shadow
    Aired · Tue, Jan 16, 1979 · 50m

    The Terra Nostra are a dangerous crime syndicate which Blake discovers while trying to buy their help, but they are not as dangerous as the mysterious force which threatens Cally.

  • E3
    Weapon
    Aired · Tue, Jan 23, 1979 · 50m

    Something very secret and dangerous is stolen from the Weapons Development Base of the Federation. Blake sets out to find it before Servalan's security forces close in, but Servalan already has a secret weapon...

  • E4
    Horizon
    Aired · Tue, Jan 30, 1979 · 50m

    Blake takes the Liberator towards the edge of the galaxy while fleeing ship patrols, but on a planet named Horizon he is finally captured by the Federation.

  • E5
    Pressure Point
    Aired · Tue, Feb 6, 1979 · 50m

    Within the Forbidden Zone is Control, the computer complex which runs the entire Federation. Blake is now ready to return to Earth to attack it.

  • E6
    Trial
    Aired · Tue, Feb 13, 1979 · 50m

    As a result of Blake's abortive attack on the Federation's control centre, a court martial is issued by in Space Command. On the Liberator, Blake prepares to desert his crew.

  • E7
    Killer
    Aired · Tue, Feb 20, 1979 · 50m

    On the planet Fosforon, Avon tries to persuade an old friend to hand over a vital component in the latest Federation cypher machine. On the Liberator, Blake and the others watch as an Earth ship, listed as missing centuries earlier, approaches the planet.

  • E8
    Hostage
    Aired · Tue, Feb 27, 1979 · 50m

    Although himself an outlaw from the Federation, Travis is still determined to kill Blake. On a derelict planet he finds the means to do it.

  • E9
    Countdown
    Aired · Tue, Mar 6, 1979 · 50m

    An entire world is under sentence of death unless Blake and the rest of his crew can save it.

  • E10
    Voice from the Past
    Aired · Tue, Mar 13, 1979 · 50m

    A mysterious telepathic signal plunges Blake back into the night mare of his torture and trial. Under its control he re-routes the Liberator.

  • E11
    Gambit
    Aired · Tue, Mar 20, 1979 · 50m

    The search for Docholli - the man with the secret of Star One - brings Blake to Freedom City, a place which has the richest casino in the galaxy, and the biggest morgue.

  • E12
    The Keeper
    Aired · Tue, Mar 27, 1979 · 50m

    One of the tribal chiefs on the planet Goth unknowingly holds the secret of Star One. Blake's problem is to stay alive while he discovers which one.

  • E13
    Star One
    Aired · Tue, Apr 3, 1979 · 50m

    Blake's search for Star One, the secret Federation control centre, takes him to the edge of the galaxy, and humanity to the edge of annihilation.

Season 3
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Aftermath
    Aired · Mon, Jan 7, 1980 · 50m

    In a desperate attempt to delay the invading aliens until the Federation battle fleet arrive, Blake has sacrificed the Liberator. As the war rages the crew prepare to abandon ship.

  • E2
    Powerplay
    Aired · Mon, Jan 14, 1980 · 50m

    As Avon and Vila fight separate battles for survival, each finds that it is not always easy to distinguish between friends and enemies.

  • E3
    Volcano
    Aired · Mon, Jan 21, 1980 · 50m

    For the Liberator's crew the planet Obsidian offers the prospect of allies and a safe base from which to work. But Obsidian also holds a deadly secret.

  • E4
    Dawn of the Gods
    Aired · Mon, Jan 28, 1980 · 50m

    When the Liberator is mysteriously drawn off course it takes the crew vital time to find out why. By then it is already too late to save the ship from almost certain destruction.

  • E5
    The Harvest of Kairos
    Aired · Mon, Feb 4, 1980 · 50m

    A mysterious death awaits anyone who remains on the the planet Kairos after the harvest week. When Servalan captures the Liberator it is on Kairos that she maroons the crew.

  • E6
    City at the Edge of the World
    Aired · Mon, Feb 11, 1980 · 50m

    In an ancient and deserted city on the planet Keezarn, Vila struggles to open a mysterious vault. The penalty for failure is death. The reward for success is not much better.

  • E7
    Children of Auron
    Aired · Tue, Feb 19, 1980 · 50m

    When a deadly disease strikes the planet Auron, Cally is summoned to return home to help her people. Only Avon suspects that it might be a trap.

  • E8
    Rumours of Death
    Aired · Mon, Feb 25, 1980 · 50m

    Avon returns to Earth looking for the Federation torturer who killed the woman he loved. But revenge is not always sweet, and the past not always what it seems.

  • E9
    Sarcophagus
    Aired · Mon, Mar 3, 1980 · 50m

    In deep space the Liberator finds an alien ship, drifting and unmanned. What the scanners fail to register is the strange and terrifying death the ship carries.

  • E10
    Ultraworld
    Aired · Mon, Mar 10, 1980 · 50m

    To the crew of the Liberator the strange artificial planet appears lifeless but Ultraworld contains an enemy as dangerous as any they have met before.

  • E11
    Moloch
    Aired · Mon, Mar 17, 1980 · 50m

    The planet Sardos holds the secret of almost limitless wealth and power. But, as the Liberator's crew discovers, the men who possess that secret do not control it.

  • E12
    Death-Watch
    Aired · Mon, Mar 24, 1980 · 50m

    The ritual war fought by two professional champions seems like the ultimate spectator sport. But with Servalan as one of the judges, can the Liberator crew just stand by and watch?

  • E13
    Terminal
    Aired · Mon, Mar 31, 1980 · 50m

    Darkness descends over the crew as their original leader Blake seems to be returning, but is it all a figment of Avon's imagination?

Season 4
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Rescue
    Aired · Mon, Sep 28, 1981 · 50m

    Avon and the crew of the Liberator are struggling to survive on the hostile world of Terminal: a stranger is on his way to find them but rescue is not on his mind.

  • E2
    Power
    Aired · Mon, Oct 5, 1981 · 50m

    When Avon is captured and Vila discovers that the silo containing Scorpio is impossible to open, it looks as though things cannot go any worse, but looks can be deceptive.

  • E3
    Traitor
    Aired · Mon, Oct 12, 1981 · 50m

    Avon needs to know why the Federation are suddenly making such easy territorial gains. The invasion of the planet Helotrix seems like a chance to find out.

  • E4
    Stardrive
    Aired · Mon, Oct 19, 1981 · 50m

    A collision with an asteroid damages Scorpio's main drives. The need to replace them is urgent. To Avon it seems urgent enough to make facing the Space Rats worthwhile.

  • E5
    Animals
    Aired · Mon, Oct 26, 1981 · 50m

    Justin is a genetic engineer who has knowledge which Avon needs. Since Justin was once her tutor, Dayna is sent to recruit him. She finds a horrifying experiment.

  • E6
    Headhunter
    Aired · Mon, Nov 2, 1981 · 50m

    Muller is Avon's latest recruit and a genius in his field, but even a genius cannot come back from the dead.

  • E7
    Assassin
    Aired · Mon, Nov 9, 1981 · 50m

    Avon and his companions become targets for murder.

  • E8
    Games
    Aired · Mon, Nov 16, 1981 · 50m

    The planet Mecron is the only source of Feldon, a rare and extremely valuable crystal. Such wealth attracts thieves. Some are obvious, some less so.

  • E9
    Sand
    Aired · Mon, Nov 23, 1981 · 50m

    The Federation's sudden concern for a long lost expedition to the planet Vim arouses the interest of Avon and his companions.

  • E10
    Gold
    Aired · Mon, Nov 30, 1981 · 50m

    To Avon, stealing a gold shipment from an undefended pleasure cruiser en route to Earth seems too good an opportunity to miss. That's his first mistake...

  • E11
    Orbit
    Aired · Mon, Dec 7, 1981 · 50m

    A renegade Federation scientist makes an interesting offer to Avon: the ultimate weapon in exchange for Orac.

  • E12
    Warlord
    Aired · Mon, Dec 14, 1981 · 50m

    A mysterious man who hunts people for money seems to have an uncanny resemblance to Blake.

  • E13
    Blake
    Aired · Mon, Dec 21, 1981 · 50m

    The crew think they are going to be able to run away from the Federation, but Avon has other ideas, and sets off to find Blake.