Blake's 7 (1978)

Name: Blake's 7
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cast: Josette Simon, Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, Peter Tuddenham, Steven Pacey

★ 7.3 50m/ep Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy Latest: S4 E13

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

Created by: Terry Nation
Cast: Josette Simon, Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, Peter Tuddenham, Steven Pacey, Glynis Barber
Country: United Kingdom
First aired: January 2, 1978

Seasons

Series 1 · 13 episodes
Series 2 · 13 episodes
Series 3 · 13 episodes
Series 4 · 13 episodes

Series 1 Episodes

1. The Way Back
A rebel leader, his memory altered by an oppressive galactic government, suffers injustice after witnessing a massacre.
2. Space Fall
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.
3. Cygnus Alpha
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.
4. Time Squad
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.
5. The Web
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
The crew steals a Federation deciphering unit and accidently leave Cally behind. Travis finds her and decides to use her in a hostage trap for Blake.
7. Mission to Destiny
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.
8. Duel
The flight of Federation pursuit ships, commanded by Travis, finally succeed in trapping the Liberator.
9. Project Avalon
Travis devises a plan to destroy Blake and capture the Liberator.
10. Breakdown
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
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
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
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.