Space Fall: A Blake’s 7 Podcast

Join us for a look back at Series 1 as we give our thoughts on the season as a whole, look forward into Series B, give our Top and Bottom 3 and catch up on some listener feedback.

“The Federation is willing to pay a hundred million credits for Orac. Blake must get to Orac first - but what is it? Orac is a radically new computer-brain which has access to all the knowledge of the universe and is the creation of the renegade Professor Ensor.” Synopsis from The Canberra Times (Canberra), 15 June 1979. Join us for a discussion of the 13th episode of Blakes 7, first broadcast on...

“President Sarkoff is a prisoner of the Federation. While Blake and Cally are trying to rescue him, the Liberator answers a distress call and runs into trouble.” Synopsis from The Canberra Times (Canberra), 01 June 1979. Join us for a discussion of the 11th episode of Blakes 7, first broadcast on March 13th, 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday, June 1st, 1979 at 8:15pm)

“President Sarkoff is a prisoner of the Federation. While Blake and Cally are trying to rescue him, the Liberator answers a distress call and runs into trouble.” Synopsis from The Canberra Times (Canberra), 01 June 1979. Join us for a discussion of the 11th episode of Blakes 7, first broadcast on March 13th, 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday, June 1st, 1979 at 8:15pm)

“The implant in Gan’s brain malfunctions and he attacks with superhuman violence.” Synopsis from The Age (Melbourne), 24 May 1979 Join us for a discussion of the 10th episode of Blakes 7, first broadcast on March 6th, 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday, May 25th 1979 at 8:15pm)

Blake and the Liberator crew travel to rendezvous with rebel leader Avalon, however Travis and Servalan have set an elaborate trap. Join us for a discussion of the 9th episode of Blakes 7, first broadcast on February 27th, 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday, May 18th 1979 at 8:15pm)

“Blake and Travis fight with their space ships, but there is a strange intervention.” Synopsis from The Age (Melbourne), 10 May 1979. Join us for a discussion of the 8th episode of Blakes 7, first broadcast on Monday, February 20th, 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday, May 11th 1979 at 8:15pm)

Synopsis from The Age (Melbourne), 03 May 1979: "The crippled spaceship presents a series of mysteries, and for Avon and Cally, it becomes a matter of life and death." Join us for a discussion of the 7th episode of Blakes 7, first broadcast on February 13th, 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday, May 3rd 1979 at 8:15pm)

We've discovered some listeners had an issue with last week's release appearing in their feeds, so this is a re-release (no new material!) which will hopefully solve the problem. The crew of the Liberator launch their campaign against the Federation with an attack on a Federation communication complex. The situation is complicated by the discovery of a strange spacecraft... Join us for the fourth...

Blake, Jenna and Avon take their newly-salvaged ship to Cygnus Alpha to rescue the remaining prisoners, only to find their former cellmates are new initiates for the one true faith... Brian Blessed guest stars in the third episode of Blake's 7, first broadcast on 16 January 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday, April 6th 1979.)

Blake and his fellow prisoners continue their journey to Cygnus Alpha, but the Civil Administration ship London comes across a space battle... Join us for a discussion of the second episode of Blake's 7, first broadcast 09 January 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday March 30th, 1979 - same night as The Way Back.)

Welcome to Episode 1 of Space Fall! In this episode, we review The Way Back, which launched Blake's 7 on 02 January 1978. (First screened here in Australia on Friday, March 30th 1979 at 8:15pm (after The Two Ronnies!))

Welcome to Space Fall - A Blake's 7 Podcast! Join Dave and Richard every fortnight as they traverse all 52 Blake's 7 episodes. This is the introductory episode, where we get the admin stuff out of the way early. (Our other episode this week is our look at The Way Back...)