Blake's 7

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

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Cast:Michael Keating , Paul Darrow , Peter Tuddenham , Jan Chappell , Jacqueline Pearce , Gareth Thomas , Sally Knyvette , Steven Pacey , Josette Simon , David Jackson , Glynis Barber , Stuart Fell , Brian Croucher , James Muir , Stephen Greif , Deep Roy , Michael Gaunt , John Bryans

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Way Back

Mon, Jan 2, 1978

Former resistance leader Roj Blake witnesses a massacre and is subsequently framed for a series of fictional crimes by the totalitarian Federation.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Space Fall

Mon, Jan 9, 1978

Blake attempts to take over the prison transport ship London with help from Kerr Avon and Jenna Stannis. When this fails, Blake, Jenna and Avon are sent to investigate an abandoned alien spaceship, where Blake grabs the chance to take control of that ship and escape.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Cygnus Alpha

Mon, Jan 16, 1978

Blake, Avon and Jenna follow the transport ship London to the Federation prison planet Cygnus Alpha where Blake teleports to the surface to free the prisoners. But the planet's supreme ruler Vargas wants to take over the Liberator in his goal of total power and conquest of the galaxy.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Time Squad

Mon, Jan 23, 1978

Blake picks up an unidentified space projectile en route to an attack on Saurian Major, accidentally allowing three dangerous aliens aboard the Liberator.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Web

Mon, Jan 30, 1978

Cally comes under the influence of an alien intelligence from her own people's legends, causing her to sabotage the Liberator. The ship goes off course and becomes ensnared by an organic web that surrounds a remote planet inhabited by a genetically-engineered race and their creators.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Seek-Locate-Destroy

Mon, Feb 6, 1978

Supreme Commander Servalan assigns Federation military officer Space Commander Travis (wounded by Blake) to eliminate Blake and the crew of the Liberator. However, Travis takes Cally captive, when Blake and the crew steal a message decoder from a Federation security base on Centero.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Mission to Destiny

Mon, Feb 13, 1978

Kendall, the captain of a spaceship whose crewmember has been murdered, offers Blake the location to Destiny if he helps him find the killer on-board the ship.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Duel

Mon, Feb 20, 1978

On a world destroyed by warfare, two powerful aliens force Blake and Travis to fight each other to the death so their ships will survive.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Project Avalon

Mon, Feb 27, 1978

Blake and Jenna teleport down to evacuate a well-known resistance leader named Avalon, only to find that she was captured by the Federation. The Liberator's crew launch a rescue mission, not realizing that Travis is using Avalon as bait.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Breakdown

Mon, Mar 6, 1978

The Liberator heads for space station XK72 where they seek help from surgeon Professor Kayn, when Gan's limiter implant malfunctions causing Gan to go psychotic and violently attack members of the crew. But Professor Kayn has other plans and he informs the Federation of the crew's presence on-board the space station.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Bounty

Mon, Mar 13, 1978

Blake and Jenna set out to convince Sarkoff, the exiled former president of the planet Lindor to return to lead his people, before the Federation assumes control of the planet. However, the Liberator is taken over by a group of bounty hunters known as Amagons.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Deliverance

Mon, Mar 20, 1978

Approaching Cephlon, the Liberator crew witness a spacecraft crash land on the planet. They rescue a man named Ensor, who was trying to get back to his father on Aristo and arrange for the Federation to purchase something called Orac. He forces Blake and Cally to fly him to Aristo, leaving Avon, Jenna, Gan, and Vila stranded on the radiation-scarred surface of Cephlon.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Orac

Mon, Mar 27, 1978

The crew of the Liberator head to the planet Aristo to deliver medical supplies to the computer scientist Ensor, creator of the mobile super-computer Orac. Blake and Cally require anti-radiation drugs for Avon, Gan, Vila and Jenna who have absorbed radiation on Cephlon. Travis and Servalan have also arrived on Aristo as they intend to claim Orac for themselves.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Redemption

Tue, Jan 9, 1979

After an attack by two unidentifiable spacecraft, the computers aboard Liberator turn on Blake and his crew through the intervention of the ship's original owners, who are controlled by a massive computer called The System.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Shadow

Tue, Jan 16, 1979

Blake tries to buy the services of the Terra Nostra organized crime syndicate in his struggle against the Federation. When his first effort fails, he decides to go after their biggest source of profit to gain leverage. That source is an illicit narcotic called shadow.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Weapon

Tue, Jan 23, 1979

After a researcher named Coser kills his superiors at the Federation's weapons development base, he escapes to a deserted planet with a new secret weapon called IMIPAK. Soon, both the Liberator's crew and Servalan are searching for him.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Horizon

Tue, Jan 30, 1979

The Liberator arrives at the planet Horizon when the Liberator follows a Federation freighter. Blake and Jenna teleport to the surface, only to be taken captive by Federation guards. Shortly after Cally, Gan and Vila are also taken captive and forced to work in the mines. Avon decides to leave the crew on Horizon and take control of the Liberator, but instead, teleports to the surface to rescue them.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Pressure Point

Tue, Feb 6, 1979

The Liberator returns to Earth where Blake plans to attack the Federation Central Control computer complex. But Blake's contact, Kasabi and her daughter Veron have been taken prisoner by Servalan and Travis. Blake and Gan teleport to the surface to find Veron while trying to outrun the security devices on the outer perimeter of the Central Control computer complex.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Trial

Tue, Feb 13, 1979

Blake holds himself responsible for Gan's death at the Central Control computer complex and decides to desert the crew. He teleports to the surface of a volcanic planet, where he finds he is not alone. Meanwhile Travis is standing trial at Federation HQ for the massacre of innocent people.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Killer

Tue, Feb 20, 1979

Avon and Vila teleport to a Federation installation on the planet Fosforon to meet an old friend of Avon's in hopes of stealing a key component of the Federation's cipher coding system. Meanwhile, Blake becomes involved with the base's investigation into the appearance of a spacecraft listed as missing 700 years ago that has suddenly appeared near Fosforon.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Hostage

Tue, Feb 27, 1979

The Liberator crew learns Travis is on the planet Exbar where he has taken Blake's cousin Inga hostage, demanding Blake comes to meet with him. Now he is a Federation outlaw he wants to join the Liberator crew. Things heat up when Servalan also arrives on Exbar.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Countdown

Tue, Mar 6, 1979

The Liberator heads to the Federation controlled planet Albian, where the crew search for Federation officer Space Major Provine whom they believe can lead them to the location of Central Control. They learn the Federation has buried a radioactive bomb on Albian which can wipe out all life on the planet. Avon meets up with enemy Del Grant, brother of Avon's former lover Anna, and tries to disarm the bomb, having to put aside his differences with Grant.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Voice from the Past

Tue, Mar 13, 1979

As the Liberator heads to Del-10 Blake receives a subliminal signal to reroute to an asteroid where he finds Shivan, a resistance leader and Governor Le Grand who need the Liberator to transport them to Atlay where they are to hold a summit to denounce the Federation. But is all what it seems?

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Gambit

Tue, Mar 20, 1979

The Liberator travels to the gambling paradise of Freedom City, where Blake is in search of a cybernetics surgeon known as Docholli who knows the location of Star One, the Federation power base. However, Servalan has implanted a bomb in Travis' robotic arm, which will kill both Blake and Travis, and Travis requires Docholli's help to remove the bomb.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ The Keeper

Tue, Mar 27, 1979

The Liberator sets a course for the planet Goth, where Blake, Jenna and Vila go in search of a amulet that belongs to the royal family, containing the location of Star One. But Travis too has arrived on Goth and is also after the amulet. To secure the amulet Blake agrees to rescue Rod, brother of the planet's ruler Gola.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Star One

Tue, Apr 3, 1979

Blake leads the apprehensive crew of the Liberator out into intergalactic space to find and destroy Star One and cripple the Federation. What none of them realize is that Star One is already showing signs of sabotage. But since nobody but Blake's crew know the location of Star One, who could be causing it, and why?

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Aftermath

Mon, Jan 7, 1980

The Liberator is damaged in the battle against the alien invasion fleet of Andromeda and the crew abandons ship whilst the automatic on-board systems attempt to repair the ship. Avon finds himself on the tribal planet Sarren, where he is rescued by Dayna and her father, Federation fugitive Hal Mellanby, only to find Servalan, the newly installed president, has also arrived on Sarran.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Powerplay

Mon, Jan 14, 1980

Avon and Dayna return to the Liberator to find it has been taken over by a Federation death-squad led by Captain Del Tarrant. Vila's escape pod has crash-landed on a jungle planet where people are apparently hunted for sport. Cally was rescued by a hospital ship, which also picks up Servalan. But not all help might be as friendly as it appears to be.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Volcano

Mon, Jan 21, 1980

The Liberator is lured to Obsidian, a volcanic planet of strategic value, which is linked to rumours of Blake's whereabouts. Dayna has a potential ally among the pacifist population: its ruler, an old acquaintance of her father named Hower. Tarrant and Dayna teleport down in an attempt to enlist recruits to their rebellion, and establish a base from which to complete the destruction of the Federation and defeat Servalan. However, Servalan has enlisted a traitor.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Dawn of the Gods

Mon, Jan 28, 1980

The Liberator is drawn off course by an artificial black hole. Orac brings the ship too close in order to study the phenomenon, and, unable to break free, the Liberator is dragged through into an "impossible" starless black void... or is it? Orac's science is pitted against a legendary figure from Cally's childhood stories.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Harvest of Kairos

Mon, Feb 4, 1980

Tarrant convinces the others to launch a raid on a Federation transport loading a cargo of valuable crystals from the planet Kairos, and Servalan recruits a retired officer who once served with Tarrant to stop him.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ City at the Edge of the World

Mon, Feb 11, 1980

The Liberator crew makes a deal with a outlaw, known as Bayban the Berserker, in order to obtain crystals needed for the Liberator's weapons system. Bayban, in return, requires Vila's help to find a treasure on the distant planet Keezar; and Vila falls in love with Kerril, one of Bayban's gang members.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Children of Auron

Mon, Feb 18, 1980

Servalan has unleashed a plague on Cally's home planet Auron as a lure for the Liberator and its crew. It works, as Cally receives a telepathic message calling for help and she is compelled to go there. Servalan is also using Auron's advanced technology to create clones in her image; her children, as it were.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Rumours of Death

Mon, Feb 25, 1980

Avon sets out on a personal vendetta to avenge the murder of his lover Anna Grant, killed by the Federation torturer Shrinker. But Avon was deceived, and learns that Anna is alive and she, along with a resistance group, have taken Servalan captive.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Sarcophagus

Mon, Mar 3, 1980

Avon, Cally and Vila investigate a derelict spacecraft. When they return to the Liberator, the spirit of a long dead alien woman comes back with them, causing power failures on the ship and creating illusions for the crew. Using Cally as a conduit, she requires the crew to transport her back to her home planet. The fight for control of the Liberator quickly becomes a battle of the mind.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Ultraworld

Mon, Mar 10, 1980

The Liberator detects a mysterious spiky metal globe floating in space. Avon deduces that it is an artificial planet, but can't raise any communication. Then Cally disappears - apparently abducted inside the "planet". As well as affecting minds, this "Ultraworld" turns out to be capable of stealing them - and using the zombified bodies of space travelers to trap others. But the crew must ultimately face the menace that rules from the center of the Ultraworld...

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Moloch

Mon, Mar 17, 1980

The Liberator follows Servalan's flagship to Sardos, where a rogue Federation officer has designs on the galaxy.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Death-Watch

Mon, Mar 24, 1980

Tarrant's elder brother Deeta is competing in a gladiatorial ceremony, where combatants fight each other to the death to settle Interplanetary feuds. Servalan is acting as a judge, but she is manipulating events to trigger a real war.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Terminal

Mon, Mar 31, 1980

After Avon receives mysterious instructions, he, for reasons he will not share with the others, is determined to follow them. They bring the Liberator to the artificial planet Terminal, passing through a cloud of fluid particles on the way. Avon goes down to the surface and finds Blake, connected to a life support system, and Servalan, who is holding him captive. While they negotiate the release of Blake in exchange for the Liberator, the fluid particles start eating away at the ship.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Rescue

Mon, Sep 28, 1981

Marooned on the artificial planet Terminal, Avon, Vila, Dayna and Tarrant finds their only hope of rescue is the space freighter Scorpio commanded by Dorian and his associate, Soolin, a gunfighter from the lawless planet Gauda Prime.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Power

Mon, Oct 5, 1981

The Xenon base security systems have locked down the Scorpio, effectively stranding our heroes. The computerized lock leading to the launch silo can only be opened by Avon, who has his hands full after becoming enmeshed in a war between the male Hommiks and the female Seskas. And if that wasn't bad enough, there's a nuclear weapon counting down inside the launch silo...

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Traitor

Mon, Oct 12, 1981

When Avon receives news Helotrix has been reconquered by the Federation, Scorpio travels to the planet to find out how they were defeated so easily. Tarrant and Dayna meet up with the local resistance group and encounter an old enemy.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Stardrive

Mon, Oct 19, 1981

Scorpio is damaged in a collision with an asteroid and the crew need a stardrive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run Federation pursuit ships. Unfortunately Dr. Plaxton is working for pirates called the Space Rats.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Animals

Mon, Oct 26, 1981

Avon sets out to recruit Justin, one of Dayna's former tutors and former lover who is conducting genetic engineering experiments. However, Servalan captures Dayna and brainwashes her into hating Justin and forces Justin to share with her his discoveries.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Headhunter

Mon, Nov 2, 1981

The rebels help a top cybernetic scientist, Muller, to defect from the Federation. Whilst escaping, they discover a dead body and a mysterious box which terrifies Muller, leading to a disastrous struggle and quarantine for the Scorpio crew.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Assassin

Mon, Nov 9, 1981

Commissioner Sleer hires a mysterious assassin to pick off the crew of the Scorpio, one by one.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Games

Mon, Nov 16, 1981

The Federation sends Commissioner Sleer to Mecron II in order to investigate the various irregularities discovered in the mining operation on that planet. Belkov, the head of the mining unit, has hidden a large consignment of crystals aboard his orbiting space station. But Avon and his accomplices are also after the crystals, assisted by one of Belkov's erstwhile colleagues.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Sand

Mon, Nov 23, 1981

Marooned on the arid desert world of Virn, Tarrant and his enemy must confront each other, and the past, whilst trying to solve the mystery of a lost Federation expedition. Meanwhile, time is running out for the struggling Scorpio and Orac.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Gold

Mon, Nov 30, 1981

Keiller, an "old friend" of Avon, proposes an ingenious heist to make off with a huge Federation gold shipment. All it requires is the Scorpio, the Space Princess pleasure cruiser, an infiltration mission, and for nothing to go wrong.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Orbit

Mon, Dec 7, 1981

The Scorpio crew are summoned by renegade Federation scientist Egrorian who wants to unleash vengeance on the Federation. He offers a powerful weapon in exchange for Orac. Avon soon suspects Egrorian is working for Servalan in another of her schemes.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Warlord

Mon, Dec 14, 1981

The success of Avon's attempt to forge an anti-Federation alliance is threatened by the treachery of a key delegate.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Blake

Mon, Dec 21, 1981

Orac has pinpointed Blake's location and reveals to Avon and the crew of Scorpio that he is on the lawless planet Gauda Prime, where Blake has given up fighting against the Federation and is now a bounty hunter. However, the crew of the Scorpio suspect Blake has betrayed them and has sold out to the Federation.