Blake's 7 - 1x04 - Time Squad
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Blake's 7. Full Episodes and Seasons in playlists on YouTube - http://bit.ly/Blakes7Movies Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for broadcast on BBC1. Four 13-episode series of Blake's 7 were broadcast between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also created the Daleks for Doctor Who. The script editor was Chris Boucher. The series was inspired by a range of fictional media including Passage to Marseilles, The Dirty Dozen, Robin Hood, Brave New World, Star Trek, classic Westerns and real-world political conflicts in South America and Israel. The series is set in a future age of interstellar travel and follows the exploits of a group of renegades and convicted criminals. Gareth Thomas played the eponymous character Roj Blake, a political dissident who is arrested, tried and convicted on false charges, and then deported from Earth to a prison planet. He and two fellow prisoners, treated as expendable, are sent to board and investigate an abandoned alien spacecraft. They get the ship working, commandeer it, rescue two more prisoners, and are joined by an alien guerrilla with telepathic abilities. In their attempts to stay ahead of their enemies and inspire others to rebel, they encounter a wide variety of cultures on different planets, and are forced to confront human and alien threats. The group conducts a campaign against the totalitarian Terran Federation until an intergalactic war occurs. Blake disappears and Kerr Avon then leads the group. When their spacecraft is destroyed and one group member dies, they commandeer an inferior craft and a base on a distant planet, from which they continue their campaign. In the final episode Avon finds Blake and, suspecting him of betraying the group, kills him. The group is then shot by Federation guards, who surround Avon in the final scene. Blake's 7 was popular from its first broadcast, watched by approximately 10 million people in the UK and shown in 25 other countries. Although many tropes of space opera are present, such as spaceships, robots, galactic empires and aliens, its budget was inadequate for its interstellar narrative. It remains well regarded for its strong characterisation, ambiguous morality and pessimistic tone. Critical responses to the programme have been polarised; reviewers praised its dystopian themes and "enormous sense of fun", and broadcaster Clive James described it as "classically awful". A limited range of Blake's 7 merchandise was issued. Books, magazines and annuals were published. The BBC released music and sound effects from the series, and several companies made Blake's 7 toys and models. Four video compilations were released between 1985 and 1990, and the entire series was released on videocassette starting in 1991 and re-released in 1997. It was subsequently released as four DVD boxed sets between 2003 and 2006. The BBC produced two audio dramas in 1998 and 1999 that feature some original cast members, and were broadcast on Radio 4. Although proposals for live-action and animated remakes have not been realised, Blake's 7 has been revived with two series of official audio dramas, a comedic short film, a series of fan-made audio plays, and a proposed series of official novels.
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Jenna's jealous
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I remember this episode as if I had watched it yesterday. Wow...
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Very foolish of Blake leaving only two crew members behind to handle a first contact situation with two unknown, potentially hostile aliens on the ship! And why did he jump Cally at the start, instead of just talking to her? Not really the best way to build trust. It's a great shame this is the only time we really see warrior-Cally - for much of the rest of the series she's reduced to sitting behind the teleport controls and occasionally moralising, not this initial character at all.
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This episode was my least favorite of the first 4. The video quality of this series on youtube is pretty poor.
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@1:36 "Naked photographs".
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I think the BBC could make some money if they would release this as a digital product for sale.
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When U was a kid I really enjoyed the film, but watching it know I see a horrieble acting. 😂😂😂
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From the next episode on, you can't help feeling the Avon/Cally vibe,
but here there's definitely a dash of Blake/Cally in the air. Maybe
that's why Jenna makes that snide remark about aliens - dash of
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Absolutely brilliant, i watched a lot of episodes when i was a kid & now have the chance to watch all of it. I know it was quite a low-buget BBC-series but when i think back i'm suprised the BBC had the money to make the series at all. I lived on a huge council estate when this was being made & i'm pretty sure that not one family on the estate had ever paid for a tv-license. I remember the word would spread like wild-fire when the tv-detector vans were in the area & everyone would unplug their tv's & hide them in the shed or loft. Good old days when you knew your neighbours & everyone looked out for each other. Thanks for uploading this priceless classic, absolutely love it.
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It only took 4 episodes to establish the crew! this is one of the greatest sci-fi series too few know about.
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Jenna has a lovely bottom.
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Thanks for the upload!.Shame it never got the budget but enjoying it all the same we had slim pickings in sci fi back then.
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Looks like the BBC used a dildo for the capsule
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did they improve. the space flight fx for this release like they did for Star Trek: TOS?
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This was so influenced by Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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"Dont hide, we're not going to harm you" *proceeds to bite a chunk out his wrist then attempts to amputate his arm with a door
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Thank God for British Sci Fi TV!
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It's interesting how everyone follows Blake. Avon seems to have an inward struggle about the kind of person he really wants to be. He knows Blake is right yet part of him hates it. I remember not liking Avon at first..
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Thanks for uploading, absolute classic, really enjoying rediscovering this
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