7.8/10360 votes#1 - 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
8.0/10312 votes#2 - 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
7.0/10293 votes#3 - Cygnus Alpha
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/1978
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
6.7/10275 votes#4 - Time Squad
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1978
A ship whose crew had been put in suspended animation is picked up by the Liberator, while Blake attempts to destroy the Federation Communication base on Saurian Major.
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Terry Nation
6.6/10282 votes#5 - The Web
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1978
The Liberator runs into a web created by psionic means; the crew meets the race of genetically-engineered Decimas. Blake learns of the attempt at genocide being waged against the Decimas by the creator of the Web.
Director: Michael E. Briant
Writer: Terry Nation
7.7/10269 votes#6 - 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
7.1/10262 votes#7 - Mission to Destiny
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/1978
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
7.3/10303 votes#8 - Duel
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/1978
The flight of Federation pursuit ships, commanded by Travis, finally succeed in trapping the Liberator.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Terry Nation
7.5/10249 votes#9 - 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
6.9/10231 votes#10 - Breakdown
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1978
Gan's limiter malfunctions, and the crew go to space station XK-72 to have it repaired, at the risk of being discovered. The neurosurgeon notifies the Federation and delays surgery long enough for Federation forces to arrive.
Director: Vere Lorrimer
Writer: Terry Nation
6.6/10239 votes#11 - Bounty
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/1978
The crew land on the planet Lindor, where a deposed leader has been held in exile. Blake and Cally ask him to return to his people. Meanwhile, a ship in distress is helped by the Liberator, only to encounter a group of bounty hunters who seek to turn Blake and the Liberator over to the Federation.
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Terry Nation
6.9/10226 votes#12 - Deliverance
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/1978
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
7.7/10251 votes#13 - 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
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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.
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:BBC One
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Way Back" is the best rated episode of "Blake's 7" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 360 votes. Directed by Michael E. Briant and written by Terry Nation, it aired on 1/2/1978. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Space Fall".