Blake's 7 (1978–1981)

Blake's 7 posterReview score: 81%

Plot

In this British series by Terry Nation, Blake is a rebel framed for pedophilia. En route to a penal colony, Blake convinces several of his fellow prisoners to revolt. They find an alien spaceship and strike out to bring down the Empire. Some of them want freedom, some of them want money, some of them want to be left alone. Together, they are... Blake's 7.

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Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Blake's 7 S01E09Project AvalonS01E09 · 10.0Travis devises a plan to destroy Blake and capture the Liberator.
  2. 02Blake's 7 S02E13Star OneS02E13 · 10.0The crew reach Star One, only to find it is already being overtaken by Andromedan forces. While Blake plots the destruction of Star One Travis plots the destruction of the entire human race. Avon confronts Travis and the Federation computer is destroyed. Blake is seriously hurt.
  3. 03Blake's 7 S04E10GoldS04E10 · 10.0A plan to steal a shipment of atomically converted gold being transported from the planet Xeroc aboard a domestic passenger ship winds up turning into a major loss for the crew.

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes1978Aired 7.8Season avg
  1. S01E01Blake's 7 S01E01The Way BackJanuary 2, 1978 8.0A rebel leader, his memory altered by an oppressive galactic government, suffers injustice after witnessing a massacre.
  2. S01E02Blake's 7 S01E02Space FallJanuary 9, 1978 8.5Blake 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. S01E03Blake's 7 S01E03Cygnus AlphaJanuary 16, 1978 7.5Blake 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
  4. S01E04Blake's 7 S01E04Time SquadJanuary 23, 1978 7.0A ship whose crew had been put in suspended animation is picked up by the Liberator, while Blake attempts to destroy the Federation Communic
  5. S01E05Blake's 7 S01E05The WebJanuary 30, 1978 6.5The Liberator runs into a web created by psionic means; the crew meets the race of genetically-engineered Decimas. Blake learns of the attem
  6. S01E06Blake's 7 S01E06Seek-Locate-DestroyFebruary 6, 1978 7.5The crew steals a Federation deciphering unit and accidently leave Cally behind. Travis finds her and decides to use her in a hostage trap f
  7. S01E07Blake's 7 S01E07Mission to DestinyFebruary 13, 1978 8.0The crippled spaceship Ortega presents Blake and his companions with a series of mysteries. Who murdered the pilot and sabotaged the control
  8. S01E08Blake's 7 S01E08DuelFebruary 20, 1978 8.0The flight of Federation pursuit ships, commanded by Travis, finally succeed in trapping the Liberator.
  9. S01E09Blake's 7 S01E09Season's bestProject AvalonFebruary 27, 1978 10.0Travis devises a plan to destroy Blake and capture the Liberator.
  10. S01E10Blake's 7 S01E10BreakdownMarch 6, 1978 7.0Gan's limiter malfunctions, and the crew go to space station XK-72 to have it repaired, at the risk of being discovered. The neurosurgeon no
  11. S01E11Blake's 7 S01E11BountyMarch 13, 1978 6.5The 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. Meanwhil
  12. S01E12Blake's 7 S01E12DeliveranceMarch 20, 1978 8.5The Liberator crew brings back the survivor of a ship that blew up while delivering some medical supplies to Ensor, the survivor's father. J
  13. S01E13Blake's 7 S01E13OracMarch 27, 1978 9.0The Liberator crew fly to Aristo to deliver the supplies to Ensor, in exchange for radiation drugs and the computer Orac, which Ensor gives

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes1979Aired 7.9Season avg
  1. S02E01Blake's 7 S02E01RedemptionJanuary 9, 1979 9.5The crew encounter the System, builders and original owners of the Liberator (known to them as Deep Space Vehicle-2). They disable its defen
  2. S02E02Blake's 7 S02E02ShadowJanuary 16, 1979 8.0The Liberator reaches Space City where Blake seeks the assistance of the Terra Nostra, a criminal group who control the deadly drug Shadow.
  3. S02E03Blake's 7 S02E03WeaponJanuary 23, 1979 7.0The rebels and the Federation are searching for the stolen prototype of Imipak, a deadly new weapon. Servalan and Travis use a Blake clone t
  4. S02E04Blake's 7 S02E04HorizonJanuary 30, 1979 7.5Horizon is a mysterious planet which neither Zen nor Orac can shed any light on. After teleporting down the crew are captured by Federation
  5. S02E05Blake's 7 S02E05Pressure PointFebruary 6, 1979 8.0The Liberator returns to Earth, and Blake wants to capture Federation Control, in the belief that it would cripple the Federation.
  6. S02E06Blake's 7 S02E06TrialFebruary 13, 1979 8.5Blake is questioning his purpose and motives after Gan's death and goes to a barren planet to reflect on things. Travis is put on trial and
  7. S02E07Blake's 7 S02E07KillerFebruary 20, 1979 7.5The Liberator crew journey to a planet where a friend of Avon's works, in order to get TP crystals. The derelict spaceship K-47 is retrieved
  8. S02E08Blake's 7 S02E08HostageFebruary 27, 1979 8.0The Liberator is ambushed by several Federation ships. Travis captures Blake's cousin. He claims to want to join Blake's crew.
  9. S02E09Blake's 7 S02E09CountdownMarch 6, 1979 7.5The crew travels to the planet Albian in search of information on the location of the Federation computer system Star One. Avon defuses a bo
  10. S02E10Blake's 7 S02E10Voice from the PastMarch 13, 1979 7.5A "time bomb" planted in Blake's memory by the Federation has been stimulated. He goes to an asteroid to meet with the legendary Shivar and
  11. S02E11Blake's 7 S02E11GambitMarch 20, 1979 6.5Blake believes Docholli knows the location of Star One, and has traced him to Freedom City, a gambler's paradise. At the Big Wheel gambling
  12. S02E12Blake's 7 S02E12The KeeperMarch 27, 1979 7.0In their quest for information on the location of Star One, the crew search for a member of the royal family of Goth who has an amulet conta
  13. S02E13Blake's 7 S02E13Season's bestStar OneApril 3, 1979 10.0The crew reach Star One, only to find it is already being overtaken by Andromedan forces. While Blake plots the destruction of Star One Trav

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes1980Aired 8.2Season avg
  1. S03E01Blake's 7 S03E01AftermathJanuary 7, 1980 8.5Severely damaged by combat in the Galactic War, the Liberator disperses its crew while it repairs itself. Avon lands on a planet and is resc
  2. S03E02Blake's 7 S03E02PowerplayJanuary 14, 1980 8.0Avon and Dayna return to the Liberator, only to find it has been claimed by Tarrant. The rest of the crew are rescued by a medical ship and
  3. S03E03Blake's 7 S03E03VolcanoJanuary 21, 1980 7.0The crew search for a new home base on the planet Obsidian, whose volcanic outbursts -- and a nuclear device buried in the planet's core by
  4. S03E04Blake's 7 S03E04Dawn of the GodsJanuary 28, 1980 7.0Orac steers Liberator off course to investigate a black hole and the Thaarn reach out to Cally from her childhood stories. Liberator lands
  5. S03E05Blake's 7 S03E05The Harvest of KairosFebruary 4, 1980 6.5Tarrant decides to raid a Federation freighter carrying valuable Kairopan crystal, but he heads right into Jarvik's trap and the Liberator i
  6. S03E06Blake's 7 S03E06City at the Edge of the WorldFebruary 11, 1980 9.0The crew strike a deal for crystals needed for Liberator's weapon systems. In exchange, Vila must help in obtaining a treasure on the planet
  7. S03E07Blake's 7 S03E07Children of AuronFebruary 19, 1980 9.0Servalan introduces a plague to the people of Auron, and the crew journey to Cally's homeworld to save them. Servalan uses this plan as bait
  8. S03E08Blake's 7 S03E08Season's bestRumours of DeathFebruary 25, 1980 9.5Avon wishes to hunt down the Federation inquisitor, Shrinker, who killed his former girlfriend, Anna Grant. He finds her alive, now working
  9. S03E09Blake's 7 S03E09SarcophagusMarch 3, 1980 9.0The crew find a drifting ship, whose artifacts have a strange effect on Cally. An alien avoiding death has possessed her, and Avon has to br
  10. S03E10Blake's 7 S03E10UltraworldMarch 10, 1980 8.0The crew go to the planet Ultraworld, only to discover it is a mental reprocessing plant. Vila saves the crew by telling riddles to Orac.
  11. S03E11Blake's 7 S03E11MolochMarch 17, 1980 8.0Tarrant is teleported into a spaceship bound for the invisible planet Sardos, which the crew of Liberator discover after nearly crashing int
  12. S03E12Blake's 7 S03E12Death-WatchMarch 24, 1980 7.5The crew visits the Teal and Vandor systems, currently at war with each other. A representative of each system is chosen for a battle. Tarra
  13. S03E13Blake's 7 S03E13TerminalMarch 31, 1980 9.0Avon secretly takes over the ship and flies it through a field containing enzymes which eat away at the Liberator's hull. They reach the pla

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes1981Aired 8.5Season avg
  1. S04E01Blake's 7 S04E01RescueSeptember 28, 1981 8.5Dorian, owner of the spaceship Scorpio, rescues the crew from Terminal. He tries to enlist the help of Orac to build a teleport mechanism fo
  2. S04E02Blake's 7 S04E02PowerOctober 5, 1981 7.5The Scorpio, rendered inaccessible by an elaborate security system, is stolen by a native of the planet who seeks to escape. Avon completes
  3. S04E03Blake's 7 S04E03TraitorOctober 12, 1981 8.0The planet Helotrix is falling easily to attack from a new Federation pacification drug, as are many other star systems. Tarrant and Dayna t
  4. S04E04Blake's 7 S04E04StardriveOctober 19, 1981 7.5After attempts to match the course of an asteroid for cover result in collision with the asteroid and severe damage to Scorpio's engines, th
  5. S04E05Blake's 7 S04E05AnimalsOctober 26, 1981 6.0Dayna meets an old friend, Justin, to seek help with synthesizing an antidote to the Federation pacification drug. Servalan learns of Scorpi
  6. S04E06Blake's 7 S04E06HeadhunterNovember 2, 1981 9.0The crew rescue a protege of Ensor's who instead turns out to be his android creation seeking to unite with Orac.
  7. S04E07Blake's 7 S04E07AssassinNovember 9, 1981 9.0Servalan hires an assassin to kill the crew by luring them to a trap set aboard the assassin's ship.
  8. S04E08Blake's 7 S04E08GamesNovember 16, 1981 8.5The scientist Belkov has stripped a planet of a valuable crystalline substance and tries to double cross both Servalan and the Scorpio crew
  9. S04E09Blake's 7 S04E09SandNovember 23, 1981 9.5Servalan investigates a planet which contains an unknown substance of potential usefulness whose investigation team mysteriously died. The c
  10. S04E10Blake's 7 S04E10Season's bestGoldNovember 30, 1981 10.0A plan to steal a shipment of atomically converted gold being transported from the planet Xeroc aboard a domestic passenger ship winds up tu
  11. S04E11Blake's 7 S04E11OrbitDecember 7, 1981 8.5The scientist Egrorian offers Avon a powerful weapon, the Tachyon Funnel, in exchange for Orac. Servalan, who is behind the transfer, prepar
  12. S04E12Blake's 7 S04E12WarlordDecember 14, 1981 8.5Avon tries to form an alliance to produce an anti-pacification drug by negotiating with the leaders of three warring star systems. The Xenon
  13. S04E13Blake's 7 S04E13BlakeDecember 21, 1981 10.0After Orac traces Blake's trail to the planet Gauda Prime, Avon and crew travel there, leaving the destroyed Xenon base behind. Scorpio is a

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