5.1/10201 votesLoading...#1 - 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
5.8/10195 votesLoading...#2 - 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
6.2/10211 votesLoading...#3 - The Keeper
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/1979
In their quest for information on the location of Star One, the crew search for a member of the royal family of Goth who has an amulet containing a brain print.
Director: Derek Martinus
Writer: Allan Prior
6.2/10191 votesLoading...#4 - Dawn of the Gods
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1980
Orac steers Liberator off course to investigate a black hole and the Thaarn reach out to Cally from her childhood stories. Liberator lands on the artificial planet Crador.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/10203 votesLoading...#5 - 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
6.3/10208 votesLoading...#6 - Voice from the Past
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/13/1979
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
6.4/10195 votesLoading...#7 - Moloch
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 3/17/1980
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
6.5/10199 votesLoading...#8 - Volcano
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/1980
The crew search for a new home base on the planet Obsidian, whose volcanic outbursts -- and a nuclear device buried in the planet's core by its inhabitants -- protect the planet from being overtaken. Servalan employs an elaborate plan to take control of the Liberator.
Director: N/A
Writer: Allan Prior
6.6/10285 votesLoading...#9 - 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
6.6/10240 votesLoading...#10 - 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
6.6/10206 votesLoading...#11 - The Harvest of Kairos
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1980
Tarrant decides to raid a Federation freighter carrying valuable Kairopan crystal, but he heads right into Jarvik's trap and the Liberator is captured. The crew of the Liberator are left marooned on Kairos, a planet where nobody survives after the short crystal harvest season.
Director: Gerald Blake
Writer: Terry Nation, Ben Steed
6.6/10187 votesLoading...#12 - Ultraworld
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/1980
The crew go to the planet Ultraworld, only to discover it is a mental reprocessing plant. Vila saves the crew by telling riddles to Orac.
Director: Vere Lorrimer
Writer: N/A
6.7/10277 votesLoading...#13 - 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
6.7/10200 votesLoading...#14 - Hostage
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/27/1979
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
6.8/10208 votesLoading...#15 - Horizon
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/1979
Horizon is a mysterious planet which neither Zen nor Orac can shed any light on. After teleporting down the crew are captured by Federation guards. Avon considers leaving the planet by himself with the Liberator.
Director: Jonathan Wright Miller
Writer: Allan Prior
6.8/10181 votesLoading...#16 - 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
6.9/10228 votesLoading...#17 - 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
6.9/10210 votesLoading...#18 - Weapon
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1979
The rebels and the Federation are searching for the stolen prototype of Imipak, a deadly new weapon. Servalan and Travis use a Blake clone to get information on this weapon from one of Blake's friends.
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Writer: Chris Boucher
6.9/10190 votesLoading...#19 - 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 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.0/10295 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.0/10232 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.0/10194 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.1/10264 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.1/10196 votesLoading...#25 - Sarcophagus
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/1980
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
The Worst Episodes of Blake's 7
Every episode of Blake's 7 ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Animals" is the worst rated episode of "Blake's 7". It scored 5.1/10 based on 201 votes. Directed by Mary Ridge and written by Allan Prior, it aired on 10/26/1981. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Stardrive".