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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!

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:BBC One

Top Episode Ratings Summary

"Star One" is the best rated episode of "Blake's 7". It scored 8.7/10 based on 249 votes. Directed by David Maloney and written by Chris Boucher, it aired on 4/3/1979. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Blake".

  • Star One
    8.7/10249 votes
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    #1 - Star One

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/3/1979

    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 kills Travis and the Federation computer is destroyed. Blake is seriously hurt.

    Director: David Maloney

    Writer: Chris Boucher

  • Blake
    8.7/10279 votes
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    #2 - Blake

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1981

    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

  • Terminal
    8.5/10215 votes
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    #3 - Terminal

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/31/1980

    Avon secretly takes over the ship and flies it through a field containing enzymes which eat away at the Liberator's hull. They reach the planetoid Terminal, where Avon believes Blake is residing.

    Director: Mary Ridge

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Rumours of Death
    8.4/10222 votes
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    #4 - Rumours of Death

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/1980

    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

  • Orbit
    8.2/10198 votes
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    #5 - Orbit

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1981

    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: N/A

    Writer: Robert Holmes

  • Pressure Point
    8.1/10228 votes
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    #6 - Pressure Point

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1979

    The Liberator returns to Earth, and Blake wants to capture Federation Control, in the belief that it would cripple the Federation.

    Director: George Spenton-Foster

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • City at the Edge of the World
    8.1/10239 votes
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    #7 - City at the Edge of the World

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1980

    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

  • Space Fall
    8.0/10312 votes
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    #8 - Space Fall

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1978

    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

  • Powerplay
    8.0/10205 votes
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    #9 - Powerplay

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1980

    Avon and Dayna return to the Liberator, only to find it has been claimed by Tarrant. The rest of the crew are rescued by a medical ship and eventually brought back to the Liberator.

    Director: David Maloney

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • The Way Back
    7.8/10360 votes
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    #10 - The Way Back

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1978

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

    Director: Michael E. Briant

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Countdown
    7.8/10215 votes
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    #11 - Countdown

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/6/1979

    The crew travels to the planet Albian in search of information on the location of the Federation computer system Star One. Avon defuses a bomb with the help of Del Grant, who had thought Avon deserted his sister.

    Director: Vere Lorrimer

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Aftermath
    7.8/10227 votes
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    #12 - Aftermath

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1980

    Severely damaged by combat in the Galactic War, the Liberator disperses its crew while it repairs itself. Avon lands on a planet and is rescued by the daughter of a former revolutionary. Priceless scenes between Avon and Servalan.

    Director: Vere Lorrimer

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Gold
    7.8/10179 votes
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    #13 - Gold

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1981

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Seek-Locate-Destroy
    7.7/10269 votes
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    #14 - Seek-Locate-Destroy

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1978

    The crew steals a Federation deciphering unit and accidently leave Cally behind. Travis finds her and decides to used her in a hostage trap for Blake.

    Director: Vere Lorrimer

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Orac
    7.7/10251 votes
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    #15 - Orac

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/1978

    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

  • Redemption
    7.7/10222 votes
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    #16 - Redemption

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1979

    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

  • Killer
    7.7/10215 votes
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    #17 - Killer

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/1979

    The Liberator crew journey to a planet where a friend of Avon's works, in order to get TP crystals. The derelict spaceship K-47 is retrieved, and an on-board virus spreads throughout the complex.

    Director: Vere Lorrimer

    Writer: Robert Holmes

  • Death-Watch
    7.7/10189 votes
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    #18 - Death-Watch

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/1980

    The crew visits the Teal and Vandor systems, currently at war with each other. A representative of each system is chosen for a battle. Tarrant kills the warrior who killed his brother.

    Director: Gerald Blake

    Writer: Chris Boucher

  • Sand
    7.7/10196 votes
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    #19 - Sand

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1981

    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

  • Project Avalon
    7.5/10249 votes
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    #20 - Project Avalon

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/1978

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

    Director: Michael E. Briant

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Shadow
    7.4/10211 votes
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    #21 - Shadow

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1979

    The Liberator reaches Space City where Blake seeks the assistance of the Terra Nostra, a criminal group who control the deadly drug Shadow. Blake must find out what the link with the Federation is, and why Orac is telepathically torturing Cally. The key appears to be the planet Zonda.

    Director: Jonathan Wright Miller

    Writer: Chris Boucher

  • Trial
    7.4/10210 votes
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    #22 - Trial

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1979

    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

  • Gambit
    7.4/10229 votes
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    #23 - Gambit

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/20/1979

    Blake believes Docholli knows the location of Star One, and has traced him to Freedom City, a gambler's paradise. At the Big Wheel gambling casino, a miniaturized Orac helps Avon and Vila win large amounts of money. Little do they know Servalan has got there ahead of them.

    Director: George Spenton-Foster

    Writer: Robert Holmes

  • Children of Auron
    7.4/10197 votes
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    #24 - Children of Auron

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/1980

    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: N/A

    Writer: Roger Parkes

  • Rescue
    7.4/10216 votes
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    #25 - Rescue

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1981

    Dorian, owner of the spaceship Scorpio, rescues the crew from Terminal. He tries to enlist the help of Orac to build a teleport mechanism for Scorpio and attempts to kill the crew.

    Director: Mary Ridge

    Writer: Chris Boucher