Blake's 7 - 2x07 - Killer
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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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Robert Holmes words spoken by Paul Daneman - wonderful.
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was there a little ship next to the liberator @ 50:11
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24:29 he should be wearing a biohazard suit.
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lots of people commenting on the use of the words redskins. please remember this is the 1970's..the term 'redskins' is no less accurate than the term white black, brown or yellow, they are all inaccurate terms based on very rough approximations of real skin tones that in reality are far more complex in pigmentation. these terms will, therefore, change from acceptable to intolerable only at the whim of the observer and moral fashion. in my view, it is more important to focus on the point, not the contextually based terminology.
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Michelin men v the half crushed easter eggs,, an epic battle.
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05:40 oh look a picture of zil
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And how come Blake is immune to the virus yet the man he was working with the whole episode died of it!! Shouldn't Blake have taken it up to the Liberator and killed his whole crew?
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Amazingly, in this story, Blake is suddenly an expert virologist and has to tell the supposed scientists not only how to reduce the spread of the disease but also where it has originated from and why. Has Blake suddenly become a genius? And why do poor Jenna and Cally suddenly get nothing to do in the second season? No wonder Sally Knyvette left at the end of this season. She was supposed to be a space smuggler and Cally a terrorist/freedom fighter yet suddenly they are walking around in long dresses and just staying on the ship all the time!!!
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Terrible costuming, but a fairly interesting story...except for the "programmed" mummy. Geez, would have been easier to cut the body open during the autopsy and released the virus airborne. You know...I'm starting not to like these characters so much. Blake seems obsessed. Avon is darn near a psychopath. Vila is an abject coward and menace. Jenn's not too bad, but more than a bit stiff. Cally...I haven't made my mind up about her...maybe the most "humane" of the crew even though she's an alien, a very skinny alien! :lol
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The role of Wiler was played by Morris Barry,who directed 3 Patrick Troughton Dr Who stories in the 60s.He also had a small acting part in the Dr Who story The Creature From The Pit.
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Great episode. I totally agree with previous comment. The two actors playing Tynus and the doctor should have been regular. I know, I know, if there was a remake done of this chances are it would suck. But I would still like to see it.
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Superb guest performances from the late Paul Daneman playing Dr Bellfrier and Ronald Lacey as Tynus. These two characters should've been regulars.
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Oh yeah... Love the backward view of the genocide of native Americans.... 'Redskins'.
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Someone in the costume department found a thousand metres of white and brown PVC sheeting.... Then had a breakdown.
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5:43 THAT'S COLIN HIGGINS, THE REBEL PILOT SITTING NEXT TO MARK HAMILL IN THE BRIEFING ROOM SCENE IN STAR WARS. I met him in London in 2006. RIP Colin. thanks for giving me the directions to the Imperial war museum.
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Great Episode!
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Michelin Men and giant space roaches! lmao!
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woah!!! redskins Blake? Thought you were be better than that. tsk tsk
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