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The Best Episodes of Blake's 7

Every episode of Blake's 7 ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Blake's 7!

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A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

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    Blake's 7 Season 1 Episode 9 - Project Avalon
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Project Avalon

    S1:E9

    Travis devises a plan to destroy Blake and capture the Liberator.

    Director:Michael E. Briant
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  2. Blake's 7 Season 1 Episode 12 - Deliverance
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Deliverance

    S1:E12

    The Liberator crew brings back the survivor of a ship that blew up while delivering some medical supplies to Ensor, the survivor's father. Jenna is captured on the planet, while the survivor of the destroyed ship forces Blake to leave the planet by holding Cally at gunpoint. On the planet, Avon is considered a god by a priestess leading her people there.

    Director:Michael E. Briant
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  3. Blake's 7 Season 1 Episode 13 - Orac
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Orac

    S1:E13

    The Liberator crew fly to Aristo to deliver the supplies to Ensor, in exchange for radiation drugs and the computer Orac, which Ensor gives to Blake before he dies. Orac predicts the destruction of the Liberator.

    Director:Vere Lorrimer
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  4. Blake's 7 Season 2 Episode 8 - Hostage
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Hostage

    S2:E8

    The Liberator is ambushed by several Federation ships. Travis captures Blake's cousin. He claims to want to join Blake's crew.

    Director:Vere Lorrimer
    Writer:Allan Prior

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  5. Blake's 7 Season 2 Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Voice from the Past

    S2:E10

    A "time bomb" planted in Blake's memory by the Federation has been stimulated. He goes to an asteroid to meet with the legendary Shivar and Governor Le Grand, who also wish to overthrow the Federation.

    Director:George Spenton-Foster
    Writer:Roger Parkes

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  6. Blake's 7 Season 2 Episode 13 - Star One
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Star One

    S2:E13

    The crew reach Star One, only to find it is already being overtaken by Andromedan forces. While Blake plots the destruction of Star One Travis plots the destruction of the entire human race. Avon confronts Travis and the Federation computer is destroyed. Blake is seriously hurt.

    Director:David Maloney
    Writer:Chris Boucher

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  7. Blake's 7 Season 3 Episode 7 - Children of Auron
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Children of Auron

    S3:E7

    Servalan introduces a plague to the people of Auron, and the crew journey to Cally's homeworld to save them. Servalan uses this plan as bait to get the Liberator, and to make clones in her image, the only offspring she feels she could trust.

    Director:Andrew Morgan
    Writer:Roger Parkes

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  8. Blake's 7 Season 3 Episode 11 - Moloch
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Moloch

    S3:E11

    Tarrant is teleported into a spaceship bound for the invisible planet Sardos, which the crew of Liberator discover after nearly crashing into it. Servalan is interested in the matter replication technology developed by the inhabitants of the planet.

    Director:Vere Lorrimer
    Writer:Ben Steed

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  9. Blake's 7 Season 4 Episode 4 - Stardrive
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Stardrive

    S4:E4

    After attempts to match the course of an asteroid for cover result in collision with the asteroid and severe damage to Scorpio's engines, the crew search for an experimental stardrive developed by an ex-Federation designer who is now working for a terrorist group.

    Director:David Sullivan Proudfoot
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Blake's 7 Season 4 Episode 10 - Gold
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Gold

    S4:E10

    A plan to steal a shipment of atomically converted gold being transported from the planet Xeroc aboard a domestic passenger ship winds up turning into a major loss for the crew.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Blake's 7 Season 4 Episode 11 - Orbit
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Orbit

    S4:E11

    The scientist Egrorian offers Avon a powerful weapon, the Tachyon Funnel, in exchange for Orac. Servalan, who is behind the transfer, prepares a plan to double-cross Avon that would give her both the Tachyon Funnel and Orac.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Holmes

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  12. Blake's 7 Season 4 Episode 12 - Warlord
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Warlord

    S4:E12

    Avon tries to form an alliance to produce an anti-pacification drug by negotiating with the leaders of three warring star systems. The Xenon base is sabotaged by explosives and a deadly virus. Tarrant falls in love with the daughter of the saboteur.

    Director:Viktors Ritelis
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Blake's 7 Season 4 Episode 13 - Blake
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Blake

    S4:E13

    After Orac traces Blake's trail to the planet Gauda Prime, Avon and crew travel there, leaving the destroyed Xenon base behind. Scorpio is attacked on approach to the planet and crash lands on the surface of Gauda Prime. Avon and crew travel in search of Blake, and discover that he may have sold out to the Federation.

    Director:Mary Ridge
    Writer:Chris Boucher

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  14. Blake's 7 Season 1 Episode 1 - The Way Back
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Way Back

    S1:E1

    A rebel leader, his memory altered by an oppressive galactic government, suffers injustice after witnessing a massacre.

    Director:Michael E. Briant
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  15. Blake's 7 Season 1 Episode 7 - Mission to Destiny
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Mission to Destiny

    S1:E7

    The crippled spaceship Ortega presents Blake and his companions with a series of mysteries. Who murdered the pilot and sabotaged the controls ? What happened to the crew and why ? For Avon and Cally, the answers become a matter of life and death.

    Director:Pennant Roberts
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  16. Blake's 7 Season 1 Episode 8 - Duel
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Duel

    S1:E8

    The flight of Federation pursuit ships, commanded by Travis, finally succeed in trapping the Liberator.

    Director:Douglas Camfield
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  17. Blake's 7 Season 2 Episode 1 - Redemption
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Redemption

    S2:E1

    The crew encounter the System, builders and original owners of the Liberator (known to them as Deep Space Vehicle-2). They disable its defense systems in an attempt to try to get their craft back. A sister ship (DSV-1), in pursuit, is destroyed by Orac.

    Director:Vere Lorrimer
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  18. Blake's 7 Season 2 Episode 6 - Trial
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Trial

    S2:E6

    Blake is questioning his purpose and motives after Gan's death and goes to a barren planet to reflect on things. Travis is put on trial and court-martialled for the deaths of civilans all courtesy of Servalan.

    Director:Derek Martinus
    Writer:Chris Boucher

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  19. Blake's 7 Season 3 Episode 6 - City at the Edge of the World
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - City at the Edge of the World

    S3:E6

    The crew strike a deal for crystals needed for Liberator's weapon systems. In exchange, Vila must help in obtaining a treasure on the planet Keezarn but in doing so he finds a gateway to another world.

    Director:Vere Lorrimer
    Writer:Chris Boucher

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  20. Blake's 7 Season 3 Episode 8 - Rumours of Death
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Rumours of Death

    S3:E8

    Avon wishes to hunt down the Federation inquisitor, Shrinker, who killed his former girlfriend, Anna Grant. He finds her alive, now working as an agent of the Federation.

    Director:Fiona Cumming
    Writer:Chris Boucher

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  21. Blake's 7 Season 3 Episode 9 - Sarcophagus
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Sarcophagus

    S3:E9

    The crew find a drifting ship, whose artifacts have a strange effect on Cally. An alien avoiding death has possessed her, and Avon has to break the spell.

    Director:Fiona Cumming
    Writer:Tanith Lee

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  22. Blake's 7 Season 4 Episode 3 - Traitor
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Traitor

    S4:E3

    The planet Helotrix is falling easily to attack from a new Federation pacification drug, as are many other star systems. Tarrant and Dayna teleport down to the surface to investigate. Servalan, deposed of her presidency in the Federation, is back under the alias Commissioner Sleer having wiped all records connecting herself with the identity of Servalan.

    Director:David Sullivan Proudfoot
    Writer:Robert Holmes

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  23. Blake's 7 Season 4 Episode 9 - Sand
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Sand

    S4:E9

    Servalan investigates a planet which contains an unknown substance of potential usefulness whose investigation team mysteriously died. The crew learn of Servalan's trip and decide to investigate for themselves.

    Director:Vivienne Cozens
    Writer:Tanith Lee

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  24. Blake's 7 Season 1 Episode 2 - Space Fall
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Space Fall

    S1:E2

    Blake and some criminals attempt to seize control of the prison ship London as it passes a space war where an abandoned ship is found.

    Director:Pennant Roberts
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  25. Blake's 7 Season 1 Episode 3 - Cygnus Alpha
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Cygnus Alpha

    S1:E3

    Blake tries to rescue the remaining prisoners from the prison planet Cygnus Alpha only to find they have a disease that can be cured by the power mad high priest Vargas.

    Director:Vere Lorrimer
    Writer:Terry Nation

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Best Episodes Summary

"Project Avalon" is the best rated episode of "Blake's 7". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Michael E. Briant and written by Terry Nation, it aired on 2/27/1978. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Deliverance".