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Original series reviews

Series 1 (1977-78)

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 1 - The Way Back
With Sky One's Blake's 7 reboot a way off yet, we revisit the original Terry Nation series. Here's episode 1...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 2 - Space Fall
The appearance of the Liberator offers freedom to Blake and Co...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 3 - Cygnus Alpha
Finally - finally! - our Blake's 7 episode reviews pick up again, with our heroes making a bid for freedom...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 4 - Time Squad
The Liberator crew take a strange ship on board, but the ensuing plot is wanting in suspense...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 5 - The Web
Something green and silly this way comes in today's review of the 1970s sci-fi series...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 6 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
Two of the canon's most popular villains make their entrance this week...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 7 - Mission To Destiny
Possibly the first whodunnit in space, but far from the best...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 8 - Duel
Travis and Blake face off on an alien planet, and it's a fight to the death...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 9 - Project Avalon
Season one hits a welcome high as Travis goes for the hat-trick of failing to kill Blake...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 10 - Breakdown
Good old Gan's gone on the rampage, and only a desperate medical mission can save his life...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 11 - Bounty
Exhausted Blake's 7 writer Terry Nation is rescued by Doctor Who stalwart Chris Boucher this week, resulting in a great episode...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 12 - Deliverance
Servalan devises a scheme evil enough to have even black-clad Travis questioning her ethics...

Blake's 7 series 1 episode 13 - Orac
Our heroes finally get close to the mysterious and valuable computer that the Federation are gasping to obtain...

Series 2 (1979)

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 1 – Redemption
The repo women come for the Liberator, arguably the biggest TDA in sci-fi history...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 2 – Shadow
Blake just can’t say no to the drug that could get him nearer his dream of destroying the federation...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 3 - Weapon
Much talk, but not much action in this week’s review of the 1970s sci-fi series...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 4 - Horizon
Season 2 continues its temporary slump with a soggy outing that tackles the interesting theme of colonisation, but to no real effect...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 5 - Pressure Point
Blake's increasingly ambitious strikes against the Federation are about to cost the crew of the liberator very dearly...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 6 - Trial
Travis is up before the judges this week, while Blake counts the cost of his ambition...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 7 - Killer
A diversion from the story- arc finds the crew of the linerator in one of the best episodes of season two...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 8 - Hostage
This entry from the otherwise well-regarded series 2 favours plot-holes over black holes…

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 9 - Countdown
The clock is ticking, and Avon must team up with an old enemy to stop a bomb going off…

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 10 - Voice From The Past
An episode of Blake's 7 that's not a fan favourite by most measures. John wonders if Voices From The Past deserves a bit more love, though...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 11 - Gambit
The review that many Blake's 7 fans have been waiting for, as Blake & Co. go gambling-happy in space-Vegas...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 12 - The Keeper
The quest for Star One takes an atavistic turn as season two draws to a close...

Blake's 7 series 2 episode 13 - Star One
Matters come to an explosive head at the end of season two...

Series 3 (1980)

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 1 - Aftermath
As series three opens, Avon seems to be getting all kinds of action...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 2 - Powerplay
New blood for the old Blake's crew - but with Servalan and a body-parts operation to defeat, will Tarrant even get to the next episode...?

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 3 - Volcano
The title's a bit more exciting than the episode as season three produces its first pot-boiler...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 4 - Dawn Of The Gods
A new writer fills Blake's 7 with dwarves and oddballs, and the result might even make David Lynch say 'That's a bit weird'...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 5 - The Harvest Of Kairos
Some brachial posturing signals a perhaps unintentionally hilarious entry for season 3...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 6 - City At The Edge Of The World
He's waited for three series to get some action, but now Vila's moment has truly come...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 7 - Children Of Auron
Avon's got a big surprise coming soon during his noble revenge mission. Meanwhile, the drinks are on Servalan...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 8 - Rumours of death
Turns out that Avon might have once had a heart to be broken...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 9 - Sarcophagus
Blake's 7 succumbs to sci-fi's greatest nemesis: the musical interlude, but it can't damage a great episode...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 10 - Ultraworld
Can our heroes survive a confrontation with the three blue baldies of doom...?

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 11 - Moloch
The end-of-series budget shortage heads for critical mass as our heroes have computer problems...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 12 - Death-Watch
The cult 70s sci-fi show predicts the advent of reality TV this week...

Blake's 7 series 3 episode 13 - Terminal
Darkness descends on our favourite freedom fighters as their original leader hoves back into view...

Series 4 (1981)

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 1 - Rescue
The unexpected season 4 finds our heroes a woman short and facing an enemy Oscar Wilde might find familiar...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 2 - Power
Popular sci-fi subject the battle of the sexes makes a slightly overbearing return to Blake's 7...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 3 - Traitor
Servalan's back again, and the crew of the Scorpio struggle a little to be surprised...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 4 - Stardrive
Outmoded space-punks and a padded-out plot bode ill for this series four entry...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 5 - Animals
Dayna gets her own episode, but it's far from a classic...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 6 - Headhunter
There's a ghost in the machine this week, in a return to quality for season 4...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 7 - Assassin
Avon's up for grabs - up for auction, in fact, and wouldn't you just know that Servalan has got her purse out...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 8 - Games
Our heroes pre-empt the invention of the Wii, as the pursuit of a precious substance must be won the hard way...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 9 - Sand
Trapped on a planet with man-eating sand and Servalan, which fate will Tarrant consider worse...?

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 10 - Gold
With more lives than a vampire cat, Servalan's back and using our heroes to make her a buck...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 11 - Orbit
Avon faces the choice between a fiery death and ejecting Vila into space. And we know where the smart money is...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 12 - Warlord
The four-season space saga draws to a close with an episode that belies the poor reputation of season four...

Blake's 7 series 4 episode 13 - Blake
Our four-season reviews of Blake's 7 finally come to an end on, er, a bit of a bleak note...

Features, news & reviews

The many proposed returns of Blake's 7
One year ago (nearly), Sky announced it was resurrecting Blake's 7. So what's happened since then, and where have other revival plans failed...?

Stephen Grief interview
Travis speaks!

Blake's Junction 7 DVD review

Avon Calling
Jamie Hailstone praises sci-fi TV's greatest anti-hero...

A New Future For Blake's 7...?
Martin wonders if Sky One are the best people for a Blake's 7 reboot...