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Taken from: Blake's 7 Episode Synopsis
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Winter-Spring 1978
Producer: David Maloney
Script Editor: Chris
Boucher
1 The Way Back
Airdate: 2-Jan-78
Time: 49:04
Author: Terry
Nation
Director:Michael
E. Briant
Former Federation
resistance leader Roj Blake learns that his memories have been selectively
tampered with by the Federation, and is being accused of crimes he did
not commit.
[intro. Blake, Jenna,
& Vila]
2 Space Fall
Airdate: 9-Jan-78
Time:52:05
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Pennant
Roberts
Blake's attempt to
seize control aboard the Federation prison ship London meets with failure.
The London encounters the abandoned Liberator, which Blake and Jenna manage
to control over after Zen kills several members of the London crew.
[intro. Avon, Gan,
& Zen (Liberator)]
3 Cygnus Alpha
Airdate: 16-Jan-78
Time:51:46
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Vere
Lorrimer
Blake tries to rescue
the rest of the prisoners from the prison colony on Cygnus Alpha, and from
the clutches of the high
priest Vargas.
Brian Blessed
as Vargas
4 Time Squad
Airdate:23-Jan-78
Time:51:20
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Pennant
Roberts
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.
[intro. Cally]
5 The Web
Airdate:30-Jan-78
Time:49:36
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Michael
E. Briant
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.
6 Seek-Locate-Destroy
Airdate:6-Feb-78
Time:51:17
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Vere
Lorrimer
The crew steals a
Federation deciphering unit, only to leave Cally behind. Travis finds her
alive and holds her hostage as a trap for Blake.
[intro. Servalan
& Travis]
7 Mission to Destiny
Airdate:13-Feb-78
Time:50:59
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Pennant
Roberts
Someone aboard the
Ortega, en route to its home planet Destiny, is killing the crew members
one by one.
John Leeson as
Pasco
8 Duel
Airdate:20-Feb-78
Time:51:10
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Douglas
Camfield
The Liberator, low
on power, engages three Federation ships in combat. Before the battle reaches
its conclusion, the goddess Sinofar suspends the battle and sets Blake
and Travis in a one-on-one death battle on a forest planet.
9 Project Avalon
Airdate:27-Feb-78
Time:52:27
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Michael
E. Briant
Another freedom-fighter,
Avalon, is held hostage by Travis in a Federation detention cell, and is
recovered by Blake's crew. Travis devises a plan to destroy Blake and his
crew using Avalon.
Glynis Barber
as a Mutoid
10 Breakdown
Airdate:6-Mar-78
Time:51:19
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Vere
Lorrimer
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.
11 Bounty
Airdate:13-Mar-78
Time:51:51
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Pennant
Roberts
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.
12 Deliverance
Airdate:20-Mar-78
Time:49:09
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Michael
E. Briant
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.
13 Orac
Airdate:27-Mar-78
Time:51:45
Author:Terry
Nation
Director:Vere
Lorrimer
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.
[intro. Orac]