Blake's 7 - 1x11 - Bounty
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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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Pity we don't get to see the planet Lindor - famous for its chocolates and its taste for electing presidents who dress like Quentin Crisp. Altogether a rather silly episode.
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cally shoul.d read my mind i. make her bl.ush.......................................................................................
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"sarkov,' named after the well-menaing but duped Liberal soviet dissident, who eventually was able to get article seven removed from the soviet constitution, leading to the descruction of the country. Nice propaganda, bbc.
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Yes, President Sarkov. Make Lindor great again.
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everytime they land on an alien planet they are always in that same damn patch of woodland somewhere in Shropshire or whatever, way to just give up making something seem like an alien planet at all....hmmm how can we save money on the set here 'oh I know lets just not bother
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Shouldnt they be able to take off the collars with the remote control they got from the guard?
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Funny how Blake and the others needed to "experiment" to learn the controls of the ship and yet the Amagan knew every button. Even with a traitor it would take him more than a few minutes to actually learn that by heart.
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In the <<making of>> documentary, they said that nearing the end of their time on the Liberator, they had only a handful of the teleport bracelets left. Actors had been walking off with them. However, this absence of bracelets could be explained within the script. Blake et. al. keeps on giving bracelets away with no way for them to be returned.
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The fighting stunts are horrible!
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Actress President Zarkoff's Daughter "Tyce" (Carinthia West) is stunning!
Too bad she had not been a regular in the series.! She became a well known Celeb Photographer! -
Avon: "First sign of trouble we leave"
Jenna: "Goes without saying"
Avon "I only wish it did"
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Poor security guards. Like the "Imperial Stormtroopers" of Star Wars, they have the most impractical, uncomfortable-looking headgear imaginable.
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About half way in...........
"I'm never going to go with you "
"But your planet needs you president Sarkov"
"I'm never going with you"
"But they will fight amongst themselves and destroy each other "
"I'm never going with you"
"The federation will come in and destroy your planet and the people unless they unite against them"
"I'll never go with you"
I'll break some of your old 78's"
"Oh well alright then...I'll come"
I never watched this when it came out and I do think given the budget they did a good job(sometimes ) considering..... but OMG maybe the scriptwriter just had an off day IMO here its easy to criticise but this a little bit OTT or UTB
Ive seen worse but I cant remmber when ...was that Dr Who's old supersonic car when Dr Who was John Pertwee or was that after ....... -
every planet is either an Autumnal British forest or an old gasworks, and the troops are worse shots than the Star Wars stormtroopers, and the Liberator interior appears to be made from plywood.... but who cares, it's Blake's Seven!!!! We all knew it was cheap telly forty years ago, but it's a classic all the same!!! Thanks for the upload!!
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Good gracious--that was a poor story. The President looked and dressed like an old silent movie actor, not a professional politician, even a retired one, and really--Barbary Pirates in Space???? That is soooo lacking in imagination and racist stereotyping, even for 70's TV. Geez, Tarvin looked like a poor Lawrence of Arabia wannabe. This has got to be the worst episode of the entire first season. :(
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I remember fancying Carinthia West (Tyce) at the time - never saw her in anything else though....
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Why they didn't make this a medieval setting, nearly every episode is like it in nature.
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The fight scenes in this are terrible. One kick to the stomach and he is out cold, really? He may have been winded but unconscienous? I don't think so. Cally jumping from the wall onto the guard and she gently nudges his neck and he is out? If Federation guards are that weak how the heck did they rule the galaxy with an iron grip?
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What's up with the second half of this episode having jittery video? Hard on the eyes after a while.
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