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BLAKE'S SEVEN :SEASON ONE AND TWO SEASON ONE
Episode 1/1 - The Way Back. After being put on trial on false charges, Blake is sentenced to spend the rest of his life on the prison colony of Cygnus Alpha. Blake's memory of the freedom fighter he once was slowly returns after his brainwashing by the Federation. Episode 1/2 - Space Fall. On-board a prison ship bound for Cygnus Alpha, Blake meets fellow convicts Avon and Jenna. After a failed mutiny, the prisoners are sent aboard a mysterious alien ship. Episode 1/3 - Cygnus Alpha. Blake, Avon and Jenna head toward Cygnus alpha in the mysterious alien ship. Jenna names the ship, the Liberator. When Blake beams down to the planet, he's captured by the Vargas. The Vargas rule Cygnus Alpha as a religious cult, and demand he hands over the Liberator to them. Episode 1/4 - Time Squad. The Liberator heads for Saurian Major, a Federation communications base. A distress signal is detected and the ship takes on board a mysterious capsule containing cryogenic pods. On the planet's surface Blake finds Cally, an Auron with telepathic powers. Together they join forces to stage an attack. Meanwhile, back on board the ship the inhabitants of the cryogenic pods come to life, intent on killing the crew. Episode 1/5 - The Web. A psychic attack forces Cally to attempt to sabotage the ship, which becomes trapped in a web-like net drifting around the orbit of a planet. Blake finds the last survivors of an experimental project set up on the planet to experiment in genetic engineering. They refuse to free the Liberator from the web until Blake hands over vital power cells. Episode 1/6 - Seek-Locate-Destroy. Blake stages a sabotage attack on the planet Centero's Federation communications base. It goes wrong and Cally is trapped in the debris. Commander Travis is dispatched on a mission to seek, locate and destroy Blake. Travis sets an elaborate trap, with Cally as bait. Episode 1/7 - Mission to Destiny. The Liberator encounters the crusier Ortega. The ship is carrying a neurotrope energy refractor, vital to save the planet Destiny from a deadly disease. One of the crews number attempt a sabotage. Avon stays on the Ortega to repair the damaged ship, and begins to reveal an intricate plot of intruige and murder. Episode 1/8 - Duel. The powerful survivors of a race devasted by centuries of war stop the Liberator as it is about to destroy Travis's ship. Blake and Travis are brought down to the planet by the young woman Sinofar. Blake and Travis are forced into a fight to the death, to prove the barbarity of the human race. Episode 1/9 - Project Avalon. Travis massacres a group of rebels and captures their leader, Avalon on an ice world. Blake, due to meet with the group, beams down to the planet. Knowing Blake will attempt to rescue Avalon, Travis develops a replica android. He plans to use the android to plant a deadly plague on Blake's ship. Episode 1/10 - Breakdown. The Liberator enters a meteroite storm, which causes a malfunction with the limiter implant in Gan's skull. Gan goes on a rampage which Blake and the others are barely able to stop. The crew take the Liberator to Space Laboratory XK.72, where Professor Kayn realises that something is wrong as such devices are only implanted in the minds of dangerous criminals. Episode 1/11 - Bounty. Blake and Cally infiltrate Federation security to reach the retreat of President Sarkoff, the exiled leader of the planet Lindor. Blake tries to talk him into returning to the planet to rally his people against the Federation. Jenna is tricked into beaming on board a team of bounty hunters. Episode 1/12 - Deliverance. Servalan monitors a small craft at Space Command, which the Liberator sees catch fire. They rush to the rescue, and find Ensor who ejected in an escape pod. He is trying to transport micropower cells to his father, vital for his survival. He speaks of his father's incredible invention, Orac. The most powerful computer in the galaxy. Episode 1/13 - Orac. With Ensor dead, the Liberator heads for his father's home on Aristo. Both Blake and the federation are on a collision course to get Orac. End of series cliffhanger : Orac shows the crew of the Liberator a future prediction of the Liberator's impending destruction. SEASON TWO Episode 2/1 - Redemption. Avon tries to keep the Liberator out of the sector shown in the background during Orac's prediction of the ship's destruction. All goes wrong when the ship is drawn to a vast space station. The crew encounter the alien race who created the Liberator, and they want it back! Episode 2/2 - Shadow. Blake is intent on buying the services of the Terra Nostra. They arrange a rendezvous at Space City. Jenna has had past dealings with Largo, but instead of helping, he takes her prisoner with Blake and Avon. Vila is elsewhere in the city enjoying the city's gambling centre. Back on board the Liberator, Orac comes under alien control and begins to terrorise Cally. Episode 2/3 - Weapon. A technician called Coser, working for the federation, has developed an invention called Imipak, a weapon which can be fired at people with no visible effect, until a key is pressed which will then kill them days, or even years later over any distance. Servalan uses a clone Blake to get the device off Coser. All the crew of the Liberator are shot by Travis and allowed to escape, as she knows that no matter where they are - she can kill them all at a press of a button. Episode 2/4 - Horizon. The Liberator moves to a distant point in the galaxy to avoid the Federation. However, they come across a freighter heading for a world called Horizon, which is practically unknown to Zen. The fact that the federation sends a freighter there once a year intrigues Blake. All of the crew (except for Avon) teleport across and are captured. Avon contemplates the possibility of leaving the others, and piloting the Liberator on his own. Episode 2/5 - Pressure Point. Blake takes the Liberator back to Earth, and tells the crew that he intends to destroy the centre of the Federation's computer network. Blake has the assistance of Kasabi and her rebels, but she has been captured by Servalan and Travis. They use Kasabi's daughter, Veron to try and capture Blake. It takes an act of supreme sacrifice by Gan for Blake and the others to get out alive. Episode 2/6 - Trial. Travis is framed by Servalan and put on trial so he is unable to provide any evidence over her inability to capture Blake. Wracked by guilt over Gan's death, Blake seeks solitude on a desolate planet. Recovering from his grief, Blake leads an attack on the Federation's Space Command. This unwittingly provides Travis with the chance he needs to escape. Episode 2/7 - Killer. On the planet Fosforan, Avon and Vila try to negotiate with Tynus for a T-P Crystal, vital for Blake to be able to crack Federation codes. Blake monitors the salvage operation on an ancient vessel, and Cally senses something is wrong. After teleporting down to witness the autopsy on a body found on board, the body momentarily comes to life, and unleashes a lethal plague. Episode 2/8 - Hostage. In the aftermath of an intense Federation attack on the Liberator, Blake receives a message from Travis. He suggests a meeting on the planet Exbar, saying that they should pool their resources now they are both outlaws. As a further incentive, Travis reveals that he is holding Blake's cousin, Inga as a hostage and that he'll kill her if Blake does not come. Episode 2/9 - Countdown. The Federation are holding the population of the planet Albian at bay, stopping revolution with the threat of detonating a solium radiation device. The device is activated after the revolution takes place, and the Liberator crew arrive to try and stop it. Avon has to teleport there and work alongside an old acquaintance, Grant. Blake finds out that the federation Central Control is at a place called Star One, and that only a cyber surgeon called Docholli knows it's true location. Episode 2/10 - Voice from the Past. Under the influence of a telepathic message, Blake abandons plans for the crew to rest from their search for Star One. He finds a guerilla leader Shivan, heavily bandaged from severe injuries, and a former Federation official, Ven Glynd, who proposes to join forces and denounce the Federation at a summit meeting on the planet Atlay. However, Shivan is actually Travis under heavy disguise, and Avon and Cally have to race to try and break the telepathic hold over Blake. Episode 2/11 - Gambit. The Liberator arrives at Freedom City. Blake, Jenna and Cally teleport down to search for Docholli, unaware that both Travis and Servalan have second guessed him. They both wait there, certain that Blake would eventually turn up to look for the cyber-surgeon. Meanwhile, Avon and Villa manage to reduce Orac in size, and take him with them to Freedom City's gambling centre. They use him to help beat the gambling machines. Eventually, Docholli reveals he does not know the location of Star One at all, but that another surgeon called Lurgen does. Episode 2/12 - The Keeper. Lurgen's brain print containing the information Blake needs is on an amulet worn by members of the Royal Family of the planet Goth. Distracted by a chance to attack and destroy Travis's ship, Avon leaves Vila, Jenna and Blake stranded on Goth, where they are attacked. Travis, who survives Avon's attack beats them to the brain print. Due to a twist of fate, Blake gains Star One's location as well, and sets off after Travis. Episode 2/13 - Star One. Star One is breaking down. All the technicians who remained on the planet to service the system have been taken over by aliens from Andromeda, to pave the way for a galactic invasion. Travis betrays mankind and assists the alien's in their efforts. In a confrontation, Travis wounds Blake severely before Avon kills him. End of series cliffhanger : Avon prepares to face the invasion force head on with the Liberator. |
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BLAKE SEVEN :SEASON THREE AND FOUR SEASON THREE
Episode 3/1 - Aftermath. The Liberator sustains heavy damage in the battle with the ships from Andromeda, and Zen shuts the life-support systems down, forcing the crew to abandon the ship in life-pods. On the planet Sarran, Avon and Orac are rescued from savage tribesmen by a young woman called Dayna. On the way back to her base, they find Servalan stranded there as well. Dayna's father, Hal Mellanby is killed by Servalan as she steals Orac. Episode 3/2 - Powerplay. Stranded on the planet Chenga, Vila's wounds from his crash landing are treated by two primitives, who flee as a pair of Hitech's arrive and take Vila to their base. Cally and Servalan have been picked up by a hospital ship which is heading for Chenga. The whereabouts of Blake and Jenna is still unknown. Meanwhile, Avon and Dayna are held captive by Federation guards, but Captain Tarrant is revealed as an impostor who joins forces with them to regain control of the Liberator. Episode 3/3 - Volcano. With Dayna and Tarrant now part of the crew of the Liberator, Avon seeks a base to work from on the planet Obsidian, but they are refused and betrayed by one of the people there. Cally and Orac are captured and taken prisoner by Servalan. Episode 3/4 - Dawn of the Gods. Curious about what lies beyond a black hole the Liberator is heading for, Orac fails to stop the ship spiralling through it. The crew are convinced they are about to die but instead land on an artificial world called Crandor. The planet is ruled by the Thaarn, a creature Cally remembers from the legends of her childhood on Auron. It's up to Orac to stop the Liberator from being destroyed by Thaan's servants. Episode 3/5 - The Harvest of Kairos. Jarvik, a construction worker with the Federation openly speaks of Servalan's incompetence in her attempts to capture the Liberator. He boasts he can do it with three ships. He is brought before her, whereupon she agrees to let him try. Tarrant leads an attempt to steal the Federation's freight of valuable kairopan from Kairos, and leads the Liberator straight into an elaborate ambush. Episode 3/6 - City at the Edge of the World. Tarrant is tricked into sending Vila down to the planet Keezam, where he is held by Bayban the Butcher, a flamboyant outlaw. Bayban believes he has found the valut where all of Keezam's treasure is stored. Vila and Bayban's female accomplice, Kerril find out it is not a vault, but a matter transmitter. Avon and the rest of the Liberator crew teleport down to Keezam to try and rescue Vila, and confront Bayban and his men. However Vila and Kerril have been transported to a distant world. Episode 3/7 - Children of Auron. Servalan captures an Auron pilot, infects him with a plague virus her scientists have created, and lets him head back to his planet where the disease spreads. Cally is sent a telepathic distress call from her twin on Auron. It is all part of an elaborate scheme by Servalan to capture the Liberator. At the same time she plans to use the planet's cloning plant to breed an entire race in her likeness. Episode 3/8 - Rumours of Death. Avon allows himself to be captured returning to Earth, but it's part of a plan to trap a vicious Federation interrogator known as Shrinker. Avon believes him to be responsible for the death of his lover, Anna Grant. Avon discovers that Servalan is the real key to finding out the identity of Anna's killer, and discovers that a certain person might not be as dead as he thought. Episode 3/9 - Sarcophagus. A strange alien craft comes across the path of the Liberator, and Cally, Avon and Vila teleport on board. They find various artefacts and bring them back to the ship before it explodes. An alien life form takes over Cally's body, and starts to stalk the Liberator, seeking to enslave the crew. Avon has to confront the creature. Episode 3/10 - Ultraworld. Investigating an artificial planet, Cally is drawn to teleport on board. Avon, Tarrant and Dayna follow to rescue her, but find they are now in what is effectively a giant computer. The core of the planet wipe the brains of lifeforms they encounter. With Avon and Cally 'wiped', and Dayna and Tarrant held as part of a human breeding experiment, only Vila and Orac are left to try and free them. Episode 3/11 - Moloch. The Liberator follows Servalan's ship to Sardos, which has a powerful generator capable of making the planet invisible. Tarrant and Vila beam on board a transporter to get on to the surface. A group of federation deserters have found technology that is able to duplicate any solid object, and after luring Servalan there, they intend to create a whole fleet using her ship as a blueprint. Episode 3/12 - Death-Watch. The outcome of a war between two planets is to be decided by man-to-man combat, with a contestant representing each side. The Liberator crew decide to watch, until they see that one of the contestants is Tarrant's brother, Deeta. The crew immediately become suspicious of Servalan's involvement as a neutral arbiter. Episode 3/13 - Terminal. Following instructions being relayed to him, Avon takes control of the Liberator and heads for the artificial planet, Terminal, flying through a cloud of particles that start to corrode the hull of the ship. Avon is drugged and an illusion of meeting a badly injured Blake is induced - all part of an elaborate plan by Servalan to capture the Liberator. End of series cliffhanger : Servalan tries to escape as the Liberator disintegrates, and the crew are trapped on the planet with no means of escape. SEASON FOUR Episode 4/1 - Rescue. Cally dies when one of the explosive charges that Servalan has left behind on Terminal detonates. Avon and the others move to higher ground to try and avoid any more fatalities, and come across the Scorpio, owned by a salvage operator named Dorian. At gun point, Dorian rescues them and takes them to his base on the planet Xenon. There they meet his partner Soolin, who seems harmless enough - but Dorian has plans to absorb the lifeforce of both her and the Liberator crew. Episode 4/2 - Power. Trapped in Dorian's base, a device has been set to detonate and the only way out is on Scorpio, which even Vila can't break into. On the surface of the planet, the crew are captured by the Hommiks, an all-male race of savages at war with the female Seska. Pella, one of the three surviving Seska, tries to trick her way on board the Scorpio to escape from the planet. Meanwhile, Orac has deduced that a piece of jewellery she's wearing might be the key to getting the teleport system on Scorpio to work. Episode 4/3 - Traitor. The crew of the Scorpio discover the Federation is using a pacifying drug to dominate the planet Helotrix. Whilst finding an antidote for the drug, Tarrant and Dayna see Servalan, who they thought had been killed when the Liberator was destroyed. Servalan now assumes the guise of security officer Sleer. Avon has to get Dayna and Tarrant away from the planet as the Scorpio is detected by the federation, who start to persue it. Episode 4/4 - Stardrive. Whilst carrying out repair work on Scorpio, the crew see three Federation ships explode with no apparent cause. Slowing the replay down, they see it was an attack by Space Choppers moving at an incredible speed. Orac concludes they had the new Photon Drive System, perfected by Dr Plaxton. The Scorpio crew plan to use it on their engines - but they have to get it first. Episode 4/5 - Animals. Dayna and Tarrant head for Bucol-2, where Dayna is stranded and attacked by strange creatures before being rescued by Justin, her former tutor. Justin is now a genetic engineer creating lifeforms that are capable of moving into areas of radiation dangerous to humans. Servalan arrives and captures Dayna, whom she brainwashes into trying to kill Justin. Episode 4/6 - Headhunter. Villa and Tarrant arrive on the planet Pharos to pick up Muller, who has created a powerful android. However, his creation has turned on him and killed him. Scorpio actually picks up the android, which is assuming Muller's identity. The android plans to gain entry to Xenon base and steal Orac, for the combined power of itself and Orac would make them invincible. Episode 4/7 - Assassin. The Scorpio crew head to the planet Domo with the information that Servalan has hired an assassin, known as Cancer to eliminate them. Avon favours taking the battle to Cancer, rather than letting Cancer find them first. The crew think they've captured the assassin, but he's merely an actor hired to trick them by the real Cancer. Episode 4/8 - Games. On the planet Mecron II, Belkov runs a vast mining operation to extract feldon crystals from the planet's core. He's an obsessive, master games player. Servalan arrives, determined to find out why the output of crystals has not met with their original estimates. Belkov has stored a haul of crystals on an orbiting carrier ship, which the Scorpio crew plan to steal, but Belkov proves himself not that easy to outsmart. Episode 4/9 - Sand. Servalan and her team of investigators arrive on the planet Virn to find out what happened to some Federation researchers stationed there. They all disappeared soon after they discovered a unique energy source. The Scorpio crew arrive to find the same source of power, and Tarrant becomes trapped on the planet's surface with Servalan. Atmospheric conditions make it impossible to get Tarrant back. Episode 4/10 - Gold. An old acquaintance of Avon called Keiller, who is the purser on a passenger ship tells him about a secret load of gold he is transporting on board. Keiller has a plan to steal it, but he needs help. The scheme is part of an elaborate trap set by Servalan. Fully aware of this fact, the Scorpio crew still carry out the robbery. Episode 4/11 - Orbit. A brilliant scientist named Egrorian contacts the Scorpio crew to offer them a weapon called a Tachyon Funnel in exchange for Orac. With little choice, Avon agrees but uses a fake replica of Orac in the transaction. Avon and Vila travel down to the planet's surface in shuttle. As Avon and Vila try to leave in the shuttle, they find the excess weight will not allow them to break out of the atmosphere. Avon considers what on the ship he can discard ... Episode 4/12 - Warlord. Avon calls a summit conference at Xenon base, bringing together the five most powerful anti-Federation factions. Their aim is to try to mass-distribute the antidote to the suppressant drug the Federation use to pacify the planets they control. However, Zukan - one of the most powerful warlords at the conference is under Servalan's control. He detonates bombs throughout the base, and discharges a lethal virus into the air to kill off any survivors. Episode 4/13 - Blake. (the last episode!) Servalan is now aware of the location of Xenon base, so the Scorpio crew destroy it as they abandon it. Avon reveals that he has found a leader to unite the rebel forces and defeat the federation. On the planet of Guada Prime, Orac has located the location of Blake, now working as a bounty hunter. As they near the planet, Scorpio is attacked. The crew are beamed to safety whilst Tarrant stays on board to crash land the ship. He's rescued from the wreckage by Blake, who hands him over for a reward. Tarrant sees this as an act of betrayal. Series Conclusion : Believing Tarrant's words about his betrayal by Blake, Avon kills blake just as Federation guards storm into the room. One-by-one, the Scorpio crew are shot, except for Avon. He is surrounded by Federation troops as he stands over Blake's dead body and simply smiles. A volley of gunshots are heard as the credits roll ... |
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