7.4/10217 votes#1 - 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
6.2/10203 votes#2 - Power
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1981
The Scorpio, rendered inaccessible by an elaborate security system, is stolen by a native of the planet who seeks to escape. Avon completes the Scorpio teleport system with the help of Orac.
Director: Mary Ridge
Writer: N/A
6.8/10181 votes#3 - Traitor
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1981
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
5.8/10195 votes#4 - Stardrive
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1981
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: N/A
5.1/10201 votes#5 - Animals
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1981
Dayna meets an old friend, Justin, to seek help with synthesizing an antidote to the Federation pacification drug. Servalan learns of Scorpio's visit to Justin's planet and of the genetic research he is performing there.
Director: Mary Ridge
Writer: Allan Prior
7.0/10194 votes#6 - Headhunter
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1981
The crew rescue a protege of Ensor's who instead turns out to be his android creation seeking to unite with Orac.
Director: Mary Ridge
Writer: Roger Parkes
6.9/10190 votes#7 - Assassin
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1981
Servalan hires an assassin to kill the crew by luring them to a trap set aboard the assassin's ship.
Director: David Sullivan Proudfoot
Writer: N/A
6.9/10182 votes#8 - Games
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1981
The scientist Belkov has stripped a planet of a valuable crystalline substance and tries to double cross both Servalan and the Scorpio crew in an attempt to escape with the private stash he has collected. He is aided by his computer, an amalgamation of a standard Federation computer and a pleasure planet gaming machine.
Director: Vivienne Cozens
Writer: N/A
7.8/10198 votes#9 - 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
7.8/10181 votes#10 - 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
8.3/10200 votes#11 - 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
7.2/10198 votes#12 - Warlord
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1981
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: N/A
8.7/10281 votes#13 - 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
The Best Episodes of Blake's 7 Season 4
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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 4 Ratings Summary
"Rescue" is the best rated episode of "Blake's 7" season 4. It scored 7.4/10 based on 217 votes. Directed by Mary Ridge and written by Chris Boucher, it aired on 9/28/1981. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "Power".