Blake's 7

50min

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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

Episodes

Cast

The Way Back

1. The Way Back

50min

2nd Jan 1978

A rebel leader, his memory altered by an oppressive galactic government, suffers injustice after witnessing a massacre.

Space Fall

2. Space Fall

50min

9th Jan 1978

Blake and some criminals attempt to seize control of the prison ship London as it passes a space war where an abandoned ship is found.

Cygnus Alpha

3. Cygnus Alpha

50min

16th Jan 1978

Blake tries to rescue the remaining prisoners from the prison planet Cygnus Alpha only to find they have a disease that can be cured by the power mad high priest Vargas.

Time Squad

4. Time Squad

50min

23rd Jan 1978

A ship whose crew had been put in suspended animation is picked up by the Liberator, while Blake attempts to destroy the Federation Communication base on Saurian Major.

The Web

5. The Web

50min

30th Jan 1978

The Liberator runs into a web created by psionic means; the crew meets the race of genetically-engineered Decimas. Blake learns of the attempt at genocide being waged against the Decimas by the creator of the Web.

Seek-Locate-Destroy

6. Seek-Locate-Destroy

50min

6th Feb 1978

The crew steals a Federation deciphering unit and accidently leave Cally behind. Travis finds her and decides to used her in a hostage trap for Blake.

Mission to Destiny

7. Mission to Destiny

50min

13th Feb 1978

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 ? For Avon and Cally, the answers become a matter of life and death.

Duel

8. Duel

50min

20th Feb 1978

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

Project Avalon

9. Project Avalon

50min

27th Feb 1978

Travis devises a plan to destroy Blake and capture the Liberator.

Breakdown

10. Breakdown

50min

6th Mar 1978

Gan's limiter malfunctions, and the crew go to space station XK-72 to have it repaired, at the risk of being discovered. The neurosurgeon notifies the Federation and delays surgery long enough for Federation forces to arrive.

Bounty

11. Bounty

50min

13th Mar 1978

The crew land on the planet Lindor, where a deposed leader has been held in exile. Blake and Cally ask him to return to his people. Meanwhile, a ship in distress is helped by the Liberator, only to encounter a group of bounty hunters who seek to turn Blake and the Liberator over to the Federation.

Deliverance

12. Deliverance

50min

20th Mar 1978

The Liberator crew brings back the survivor of a ship that blew up while delivering some medical supplies to Ensor, the survivor's father. Jenna is captured on the planet, while the survivor of the destroyed ship forces Blake to leave the planet by holding Cally at gunpoint. On the planet, Avon is considered a god by a priestess leading her people there.

Orac

13. Orac

50min

27th Mar 1978

The Liberator crew fly to Aristo to deliver the supplies to Ensor, in exchange for radiation drugs and the computer Orac, which Ensor gives to Blake before he dies. Orac predicts the destruction of the Liberator.

First air date

2nd Jan 1978

Last air date

21st Dec 1981

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks