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Year: 1978  |  1979  |  1980  |  1981


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: The Way Back

Original Air Date—2 January 1978
Former resistance leader Roj Blake witnesses a massacre and is subsequently framed for a series of fictional crimes by the totalitarian Federation.

Season 1, Episode 2: Space Fall

Original Air Date—9 January 1978
Blake takes the prison transport ship "London" under siege with help from Kerr Avon and Jenna Stannis. But when the siege fails, Blake, Jenna and Avon are sent to investigate a abandoned alien spaceship, where Blake decides to take to control of the ship and escape.

Season 1, Episode 3: Cygnus Alpha

Original Air Date—16 January 1978
Blake, Avon and Jenna follows the prison transport ship "London" to the Federation prison planet "Cygnus Alpha" where Blake teleports to the surface to free the prisoners. But the planet's supreme ruler Vargas wants to take over "The Liberator" in his goal for total power and conquest of the galaxy.

Season 1, Episode 4: Time Squad

Original Air Date—23 January 1978
Blake picks up an unidentified space projectile en route to an attack on Saurian Major, accidentally allowing three dangerous aliens aboard the Liberator.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Web

Original Air Date—30 January 1978
Cally comes under the influence of an alien intelligence from her own peoples' legends, causing her to sabotage the Liberator. The ship goes off course and becomes ensnared by an organic web that surrounds a remote planet inhabited by a genetically-engineered race and their creators.

Season 1, Episode 6: Seek-Locate-Destroy

Original Air Date—6 February 1978
Supreme Commander Servalan assigns one-eyed federation military officer Space Commander Travis (wounded by Blake) to eliminate Blake and the crew of the Liberator. But Travis takes Cally captive, when Blake and the crew steal a message decoder from a Federation security base on Centero.

Season 1, Episode 7: Mission to Destiny

Original Air Date—13 February 1978
Kendall, the captain of a spaceship whose crew has been murdered, offers Blake the location to Destiny if he helps him find the killer on-board the ship.

Season 1, Episode 8: Duel

Original Air Date—20 February 1978
On a world destroyed by warfare, two powerful aliens force Blake and Travis to fight each other to the death so their ships will survive.

Season 1, Episode 9: Project Avalon

Original Air Date—27 February 1978
Blake and Jenna teleport down to evacuate a well-known resistance leader named Avalon, only to find that she was captured by the Federation. The Liberator's crew launch a rescue mission, not realizing that Travis is using Avalon as bait.

Season 1, Episode 10: Breakdown

Original Air Date—6 March 1978
The Liberator heads for space station XK72 where they seek help from surgeon Professor Kayn, when Gan's limiter implant malfunctions causing Gan to go psychotic and violently attack members of the crew. But Professor Kayn has other plans and he informs the Federation of the crew's presence on-board the space station.

Season 1, Episode 11: Bounty

Original Air Date—13 March 1978
Blake and Jenna set out to convince Sarkoff, the exiled former president of the planet Lindor to return to lead his people, before the Federation assumes control of the planet. But the Liberator is taken over by a group of bounty hunters known as The Amagons.

Season 1, Episode 12: Deliverance

Original Air Date—20 March 1978
Approaching Cephlon, the Liberator crew witness a spacecraft crash land on the planet. They rescue a man named Ensor, who was trying to get back to his father on Aristo and arrange for the Federation to purchase something called Orac. He forces Blake and Cally to fly him to Aristo, leaving Avon, Jenna, Gan, and Vila stranded on the radiation-scarred surface of Cephlon.

Season 1, Episode 13: Orac

Original Air Date—27 March 1978
The crew of the Liberator head to the planet Aristo to deliver medical supplies to the computer scientist Ensor, creator of the mobile super-computer Orac. Where Blake and Cally require from Ensor, anti-radiation drugs for Avon, Gan, Vila and Jenna who have absorbed radiation from Cephlon. Travis and Serverlan have also arrived on Aristo as they bid on claiming Orac for themselves.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Redemption

Original Air Date—9 January 1979
After an attack by two unidentifiable spacecraft, the computers aboard Liberator turn on Blake and his crew through the intervention of the ship's original owners, who are controlled by a massive computer called The System.

Season 2, Episode 2: Shadow

Original Air Date—16 January 1979
Blake tries to buy the services of the Terra Nostra organized crime syndicate in his struggle against the Federation. When his first effort fails, he decides to go after their biggest source of profit to gain leverage. That source is an illicit narcotic called shadow.

Season 2, Episode 3: Weapon

Original Air Date—23 January 1979
After a researcher named Coser kills his superiors at the Federation's weapons development base, he escapes to a deserted planet with a new secret weapon called IMIPAK. Soon, both the Liberator's crew and Servalan are searching for him.

Season 2, Episode 4: Horizon

Original Air Date—30 January 1979
The Liberator arrives at the planet Horizon when The Liberator follows a Federation freighter, Where Blake and Jenna teleports to the surface, only to be taken captive by federation guards. Shortly after Cally, Gan and Vila are also taken captive and forced to work in the mines. Avon decides to leave the crew on Horizon and take control of The Liberator, but instead, teleports to the surface to rescue them.

Season 2, Episode 5: Pressure Point

Original Air Date—6 February 1979
The Liberator returns to Earth where Blake plans to attack the Federation Central Control computer complex. But Blake's contact, Kasabi and her daughter Veron have been taken prisoner by Serverlan and Travis and Blake and Gan teleport to the surface to find Veron and outrun the security devices on the outer perimeter of the Central Control computer complex.

Season 2, Episode 6: Trial

Original Air Date—13 February 1979
Holding himself responsible for Gan's death, after Gan was killed by Travis at the Central Control computer complex on Earth. Blake decides to dessert the crew and teleports to the surface of a volcanic planet, where he finds he is not alone. Travis is standing trial at Federation HQ for the massacre of innocent people. Travis's trial is Serverlan's cover up of the incident at the Central Control computer complex.

Season 2, Episode 7: Killer

Original Air Date—20 February 1979
Avon and Vila teleport to a Federation installation on the planet Fosforon to meet an old friend of Avon's in hopes of stealing a key component of the Federation's cipher coding system. Meanwhile, Blake becomes involved with the base's investigation into the appearance of a spacecraft listed as missing 700 years ago that has suddenly appeared near Fosforon.

Season 2, Episode 8: Hostage

Original Air Date—27 February 1979
The Liberator crew learns Travis is on the planet Exbar where Travis has taken Blake's cousin Inga hostage demanding Blake comes to Exbar to meet with him or he will kill her, where he wants to join The Liberator crew, now he is a Federation outlaw. Where Travis sets a trap on Blake, Avon and Vila and Servalan also arrives on Exbar.

Season 2, Episode 9: Countdown

Original Air Date—6 March 1979
The Liberator heads to the Federation controlled planet Albian, where Blake and the crew are in search of Federation officer Space Major Provine whom they believe can lead them to the location of Central Control. Only to learn The Federation has buried a radioactive bomb on the planet which wipe out all life on Albian. As Blake and the crew helps a band of rebels find the bomb. Avon meets up with enemy Del Grant, brother of Avon's former lover Anna and tries to disarm the bomb and puts aside his differences with Grant.

Season 2, Episode 10: Voice from the Past

Original Air Date—13 March 1979
As The Liberator heads to Del 10, The ship changes course and instead heads to a asteroid when Blake receives mind control signal. Where Blake and the crew teleports to the asteroid and finds Shivan, a resistance leader and Governor Le Grand, and learns they are put on a summit to denounce the Federation and they need The Liberator to transport them to Atlay where the Summit is taking place. Only to learn it is a trap set by Travis who is disguised as Shivan.

Season 2, Episode 11: Gambit

Original Air Date—20 March 1979
The Liberator travels to the gambling paradise of Freedom City, where Blake is in search of a cybernetics surgeon known as Docholli who knows the location of Star One, the Federation power base. But Serverlan has implanted a bomb in Travis's robotic arm, which will kill both Blake and Travis, and Travis requires Docholli's help to remove the bomb.

Season 2, Episode 12: The Keeper

Original Air Date—27 March 1979
The Liberator sets a course for the planet Goth, where Blake, Jenna and Vila teleports to the surface and goes in search of a amulet that belongs to the royal family containing the location of Star One. But Travis too has arrived on Goth and is also after the amulet and Blake agrees to rescue Rod, brother of the planet's ruler Gola.

Season 2, Episode 13: Star One

Original Air Date—3 April 1979
Blake leads the apprehensive crew of the Liberator out into intergalactic space to find and destroy Star One and cripple the Federation. What none of them realize is that Star One is already showing signs of sabotage. But since nobody but Blake's crew know the location of Star One, who could be causing it, and why?

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Aftermath

Original Air Date—7 January 1980
Edited from 3 episodes ("Aftermath", "Powerplay" and "Sarcophagus") of the third series of the cult BBC SF series "Blake's 7", the story picks up at the end of a mighty space war between the Human Federation and the forces of Andromeda. Caught up in the battle are the crew of the "Liberator" who are forced to bail out when the ship is badly damaged. The survivors struggle to return to the ship but find it in unfriendly hands, then have to face a terrifying alien menace which has assumed the form of crew member Cally...

Season 3, Episode 2: Powerplay

Original Air Date—14 January 1980
Avon and Dayna returns to the Liberator only to find it has been taken over by a Federation death-squad led by Captain Del Tarrant. Vila is rescued from the jungle planet Chenga where he finds Cally and Serverlan in a hospital, only to find the hospital in reality is a slaughterhouse, where human organs are stored in banks.

Season 3, Episode 3: Volcano

Original Air Date—21 January 1980

Season 3, Episode 4: Dawn of the Gods

Original Air Date—28 January 1980

Season 3, Episode 5: The Harvest of Kairos

Original Air Date—4 February 1980
Tarrant convinces the others to launch a raid on a Federation transport loading a cargo of valuable crystals from the planet Kairos, and Servalan recruits a retired officer who once served with Tarrant to stop him.

Season 3, Episode 6: City at the Edge of the World

Original Air Date—11 February 1980
The Liberator crew makes a deal with a outlaw known as Bayban the Berserker to exchange for crystals need for the Liberator's weapons system. Bayban the Berserker in returns requires Vila's help to find a treasure on the distant planet Keezar and Vila falls in love with Kerril, one of Bayban the Berserker's gang members.

Season 3, Episode 7: Children of Auron

Original Air Date—18 February 1980
Serverlan has unleashed a plague on Cally's home planet Auron. Avon and the Liberator crew travel to Auron to aid Cally's people to fight the plague, when Cally receives a telepathic message from her people summoning her to Auron to help. But Serverlan has lured the Liberator crew into a trap and is using Aurons advanced cloning technology to create clones in her image.

Season 3, Episode 8: Rumours of Death

Original Air Date—25 February 1980
Avon sets out on a personal vendetta to avenge the murder of his lover Anna Grant, killed by the Federation torturer Shrinker. But Avon is deceived, when he learns Anna is alive and she along with a resistance group have taken Serverlan captive.

Season 3, Episode 9: Sarcophagus

Original Air Date—3 March 1980
Avon, Cally and Vila investigates a derelict spacecraft. When they return to The Liberator, they find something else has also returned with them, and Cally finds herself under the influence of a alien woman that assumes Cally's appearance and requires the crew to transport her back to her home planet, and only Avon can stop her.

Season 3, Episode 10: Ultraworld

Original Air Date—10 March 1980

Season 3, Episode 11: Moloch

Original Air Date—11 March 1980
The Liberator follows Servalan's flagship to Sardos, where a rogue Federation officer has designs on the galaxy.

Season 3, Episode 12: Death-Watch

Original Air Date—24 March 1980
Tarrant's twin-brother Deeta is competing in a gladiatorial ceremony, where combatants fight each other to the death in a duel (Interplanetary feuds are settled into combat). When Deeta is killed by the android Vinni. Tarrant decides to take on Vinni himself, only to learn Serverlan is acting as a judge and she is manipulating events to trigger off a real war.

Season 3, Episode 13: Terminal

Original Air Date—31 March 1980
The Liberator heads to the artificial planet Terminal when Avon receives instructions from Blake. Avon goes to the surface and finds Blake is connected to a life support capsule. But Avon learns it is a trap set by Servalan, who lured the crew to Terminal, so she can take control of The Liberator. But the Liberator faces destruction, as the ship is seriously damaged by particle fluids in space.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Rescue

Original Air Date—28 September 1981
Marooned on the artificial planet Terminal, Avon, Vila, Dayna and Tarrant finds their only hope of rescue is the space freighter Scorpio commanded by Dorian and his associate, Soolin, the blonde gunfighter from the lawless planet Gauda Prime.

Season 4, Episode 2: Power

Original Air Date—5 October 1981
The Xenon base security systems have locked down the Scorpio, effectively stranding our heroes. The computerized lock leading to the launch silo can only be opened by Avon, who has his hands full after becoming enmeshed in a war between the male Hommiks and the female Seskas. And if that wasn't bad enough, there's a nuclear weapon counting down inside the launch silo...

Season 4, Episode 3: Traitor

Original Air Date—12 October 1981

Season 4, Episode 4: Stardrive

Original Air Date—19 October 1981
Scorpio is damaged in a collision course with a asteroid and the Scorpio crew require a star-drive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run all Federation pursuit ships. Only to find Dr. Plaxton is working for space pirates "The Space Rats".

Season 4, Episode 5: Animals

Original Air Date—26 October 1981
Avon sets out to recruit Justin, one of Dayna's former tutors and former lover who is conducting genetic engineering experiments. But Serverlan captures Dayna and brainwashes her into hating Justin and forces Justin share with her his discoveries on his experiments.

Season 4, Episode 6: Headhunter

Original Air Date—2 November 1981

Season 4, Episode 7: Assassin

Original Air Date—9 November 1981

Season 4, Episode 8: Games

Original Air Date—16 November 1981
The Federation sends Commissioner Sleer to Mecron II in order to investigate the various irregularities discovered in the mining operation on that planet. Belkov, the head of the mining unit, has hidden a large consignment of crystals aboard his orbiting space station. But Avon and his accomplices are also after the crystals, assisted by one of Belkov's erstwhile colleagues.

Season 4, Episode 9: Sand

Original Air Date—23 November 1981

Season 4, Episode 10: Gold

Original Air Date—30 November 1981

Season 4, Episode 11: Orbit

Original Air Date—7 December 1981
The Scorpio crew are summoned by Renegade Federation scientist Egorian who wants to unleash vengeance on the Federation. Egorian wants to trade a powerful weapon in exchange for Orac. But Avon and Vila discover Egorian is working for Serverlan in another bid to take Orac, unaware Avon has given Egorian a fake duplicate of Orac.

Season 4, Episode 12: Warlord

Original Air Date—14 December 1981
The success of Avon's attempt to forge an anti-Federation alliance is threatened by the treachery of a key delegate.

Season 4, Episode 13: Blake

Original Air Date—21 December 1981
Orac has pinpointed Blake's location and reveals to Avon and the crew of Scorpio that he is on the lawless planet Gauda Prime, where Blake has given up fighting against the Federation and is now a bounty hunter. But the crew of the Scorpio suspect Blake has betrayed them and has sold out to the Federation.

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