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 Blake's 7
Child molesting. Blake is not guilty of the charges but is convicted of the crime in order to discredit him. He is a political activist working against the Federation, the corrupt organisation ruling part of space.
Cygnus Alpha. Cygnus Alpha is a planet populated by criminals. It is ruled by a religious sect who drug newcomers to the planet, telling them there is a curse upon them making them ill, and that they will never be able to leave.
Gan. Gan dies when the crew attempt to return to Earth and destroy the Federation's computer bank, known as Control. He is killed during the crew's escape. He is crushed by an underground room collapsing.
The Liberator. The Liberator was designed in a far-off galaxy controlled by computers. All inhabitants are slaves to the computers, known as the System.
Computer fraud. Avon was being spied on by an agent known as 'Bartholomew'.
Anna. Anna Grant is Avon's former girlfriend and love of his life. She is an agent of the Federation, who worked under the assumed name 'Bartholomew'.
Terry Nation. The late Terry Nation also created the most famous 'Dr. Who' villains, the Daleks.
Auron. All the inhabitants of the planet Auron are telepathic. Everybody born on the planet is a test-tube baby.
Ensor. Orac is connected to all other computers. Orac shows a projected image of the future in which Blake's ship The Liberator and all of its crew have been destroyed.
Servalan. Servalan was played by Jacqueline Pearce, who also starred in the 'Dr. Who' epislode 'The Two Doctors', as another powerful and scheming woman.
Cally. Blake, Jenna and Avon are the first on the Liberator in episode 2 (‘Space Fall’), with Zen making an appearance early in episode 3 (‘Cygnus Alpha’). Vila and Gan are rescued from the prison planet at the end of episode 3. Cally joins the crew in episode 4 (‘Time Squad’).
Gan. Gan has a limiter chip implanted in his brain that prevents him from killing people. It malfunctions in episode 10 (‘Breakdown’) and he has violent attacks, so has to be operated on.
Blood. In episode 8 (‘Duel’) we see the Mutoid replace an empty vial in her chest pouch with a new, green vial of blood serum while on the Federation ship. On the planet’s surface, she runs short of serum and has to suck the blood from the local fauna, bats. She also tries to suck Jenna’s blood, with a metal proboscis implanted in her wrist.
| Space Commander Travis’s standing as a Federation officer is only restored by Servalan so that he can pursue Blake. For what reason was he previously stripped of his rank and authority? | 'Blake's 7' Season 1
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Massacring civilians while suppressing an insurrection. In episode 6 (‘Seek-Locate-Destroy’), we learn that Travis had been ordered to suppress an attack on the planet Auros, continuing to fight even after the other side had surrendered. The death toll, we are told, was “horrifying”.
White. The always stylish Servalan wears white the whole season. Black and the occasional splash of red come later.
| Which resistance leader gets duplicated as an android to trick the Liberator crew? | 'Blake's 7' Season 1
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Avalon. Travis and Servalan capture Avalon and replace her with an android. They then let the Liberator crew ‘rescue’ the android, who is carrying a phial of a deadly virus (episode 9, ‘Project Avalon’).
| Which 20th century object does Blake break trying to convince ex-President Sarkoff to return to his home planet and take back power (episode 11, ‘Bounty’)? | 'Blake's 7' Season 1
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Vinyl record. The broken record doesn’t convince Sarkoff though. It is when Blake threatens to break the butterfly collection that he agrees to do it.
Cally. Cally is captured by Travis, who lures Blake back to the planet by sending a coded message that she is still alive, knowing that the Liberator crew can decode the message with the cypher machine (episode 6, ‘Seek-Locate-Destroy’).
Avon. After Orac makes a prediction that the ‘space vehicle’ will explode, Avon makes the point that Orac is just a machine with this uncharacteristic display of irrationality (episode 13, ‘Orac’).
Jenna. When Jenna is figuring out what the different buttons on the control panel do, Zen holds her captive for a minute and reads her mind. It takes the name ‘Liberator’ from her thoughts.
| The defence mechanism in the Liberator draws intruders towards a hidden weapon by projecting emotive images of their family members. Blake sees his sister and brother. Jenna sees her mother. Who does Avon see? | 'Blake’s 7' Escape from the Federation
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His brother. Avon’s brother beckons to him and says his name, while Jenna sees Federation guards torturing her mother. Blake sees through the trap, because when he was deprogrammed by the resistance members on Earth he learned that his siblings were dead, so he knows the projections are illusions.
London. The Ortega is the ship in ‘Mission to Destiny’.
He is trapped in the ventilation shaft next to the hull when it is breached. Poor little Nova. He gets into the ventilation shaft to be useful: “Well let me do it, I haven’t done anything yet!” When the ship’s hull is damaged, the exposed areas including the shaft fill up with soap suds…*ahem*…sorry, sealing gel… which goes hard in seconds.
Vila. “I got confused,” says Vila as they are placed in custody again and their first escape plan is foiled.
He did not put his seatbelt on. Blake didn’t hear the guard’s order to fasten his harness because he was still hoping for a reprieve before take off.
| How many of the future Liberator crew are holding the prison ship to ransom from the computer room when Subcommander Raiker threatens to kill a prisoner every thirty seconds? | 'Blake’s 7' Escape from the Federation
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3. Avon, Blake and Jenna are in the computer room and so have control of the ship, but they give themselves up at Blake’s instigation when Raiker starts shooting the prisoners.
He is the only one capable of faking the ship’s running log. Avon, being a computer whiz, is the only person on the ship who can fake the running log. In Jenna’s words, “He fixes the log, the crew dump us, pocket the profit and set him free.” The reason he doesn’t do it, as Blake points out, is that the crew would have to kill him to keep him quiet.
Zen. Zen unhelpfully says this when Avon asks if the teleport system will be harmful to them.
A prison planet. They go to rescue the others who were on the London with them. “We’ve got a ship and we can go anywhere we like,” says Jenna. “Follow the London to Cygnus Alpha,” is Blake’s suggestion. “And then we can free the rest of the prisoners.” Avon is not overly impressed.
| Which character was often nicknamed "The Reluctant Hero" by critics and went on to become a more popular character than Blake himself? | "Blake's 7" Questions
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Avon. Paul Darrow played this part very well. When Blake left the ship I wondered why they didn't call the show "Avon's 7".
| What was the name of Blake's arch-enemy who originally was supposed to dispose of Blake before the series began? | "Blake's 7" Questions
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Travis. In the fight that ensued, Blake actually fired a lucky shot at Travis which cost him his hand and his eye. Later on when Blake became a wanted fugitive Travis was assigned to "seek, locate and destroy". They knew Travis had a reliable ulterior motive for wanting to eliminate Blake!
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