Name: Blake's 7 - Series 3
Brand: BBC DVD
SKU: BBCDVD1789
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Blake's 7 - Series 3 (Terry Nation / Allan Prior / James Follett / Ben Steed / Chris Boucher / Roger Parkes / Tanith Lee / Trevor Hoyle)

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Release details

Detail			Value
Catalogue number			BBCDVD 1789
Title			Blake's 7 - Series 3
Artist(s)			Terry Nation / Allan Prior / James Follett / Ben Steed / Chris Boucher / Roger Parkes / Tanith Lee / Trevor Hoyle
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Near mint
BBC records label code			-
Item deleted?			No
Released			1980
Distributed / printed by			BBC Worldwide Ltd
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			A0100608168-A911 16 A 4 A0100607649-A911 18 A 1 A 0100608134-A911 16 A 1 A0100608167-A911 16 A 1 A0100608164-A911 16 A 0
My rating			*****
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Side & track	Track and Artist	Length
Tracks Below is a list of tracks for this release.
A1	Aftermath	51.49
A2	Powerplay	50.34
A3	Volcano	51.38
B1	Dawn of the Gods	50.56
B2	The harvest of Kairos	51.28
B3	City at the edge of the world	51.32
C1	Children of Auron	48.44
C2	Rumours of death	51.01
C3	Sarcophagus	51.49
D1	Ultraworld	49.00
D2	Moloch	51.28
D3	Death-watch	51.03
E1	Terminal	54.01
E2	Blake's bloopers	3.09
E3	Sheelagh Wells - Make up memories	12.47
E4	Series 4 trailer	2.23
E5	Introducing Tarrant	4.00
E6	Stuart's stunts	14.01
E7	Look North	5.42
E8	Tarrant screen test	14.33
E9	Introducing Dayna	3.49
E10	Episode synopses
E11	DVD credits
Total length of media 12:05:27.

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Starring Paul Darrow (Kerr Avon) Michael Keating (Vila Restal) Jan Chappell (Cally) Josette Simon (Dayna Mellanby) Steven Pacey (Del Tarrant) Peter Tuddenham (Zen) Peter Tuddenham (Orac) Regulars Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan) Others Cy Grant - Hal Mellanby (Part 1) Alan Lake - Chel (Part 1) Sally Harrison - Lauren (Part 1) Richard Franklin and Michael Melia - Federation Troopers (Part 1) Michael Sheard - Klegg (Part 2) John Hollis - Lom (Part 2) Primi Townsend - Zee (Part 2) Julia Vidler - Barr (Part 2) Michael Crane - Mall (Part 2) Doyne Bird - Harmon (Part 2) Catherine Chase - Nurse (Part 2) Helen Blatch - Receptionist (Part 2) Michael Gough - Hower (Part 3) Malcolm Bullivant - Bershar (Part 3) Ben Howard - Mori (Part 3) Alan Bowerman - Battle fleet commander (Part 3) Judy Matheson - Mutoid (Part 3) Russell Denton - Milus (Part 3) Sam Dastor - The Caliph (Part 4) Marcus Powell - Thaarn (Part 4) Terry Scully - Groff (Part 4) Andrew Burt - Jarvik (Part 5) Frank Gatliff - Dastor (Part 5) Anthony Gardner - Shad (Part 5) Sam Davies - Carlon (Part 5) Charles Jamieson - Guard (Part 5) Colin Baker - Bayban (Part 6) Carol Hawkins - Kerril (Part 6) Valentine Dyall - Norl (Part 6) John J. Carney - Sherm (Part 6) Ric Young - Ginka (Part 7) Rio Fanning - Deral (Part 7) Sarah Atkinson - Franton (Part 7) Jan Chappell - Zelda (Part 7) Jack McKenzie - Patar (Part 7) Michael Troughton - Pilot Four Zero (Part 7) Ronald Leigh-Hunt - CA One (Part 7) Beth Harris - CA Two (Part 7) Lorna Heilbron - Sula (Part 8) John Bryans - Shrinker (Part 8) Peter Clay - Chesku (Part 8) Donald Douglas - Grenlee (Part 8) David Haig - Forres (Part 8) David Gilles - Hob (Part 8) Philip Bloomfield - Balon (Part 8) Jan Chappell - The Alien (Part 9) Peter Richards - Ultra 1 (Part 10) Stephen Jenn - Ultra 2 (Part 10) Ian Barritt - Ultra 3 (Part 10) Ronald Govey - Relf (Part 10) John Hartley - Grose (Part 11) Mark Sheridan - Lector (Part 11) Davyd Harries - Doran (Part 11) Sabina Franklyn - Chesil (Part 11) Debbi Blythe - Poola (Part 11) Deep Roy - Moloch (Part 11) Steven Pacey - Deeta Tarrant (Part 12) Stewart Bevan - Max (Part 12) Paul Mark Elliott - Vinni (Part 12) Katherine Iddon - Karla (Part 12) David Sibley - Commentator (Part 12) Gareth Thomas - Roj Blake (Part 13) Gillian McCutcheon - Kostos (Part 13) Richard Clifford - Toron (Part 13) Heather Wright - Reeval (Part 13) David Healy - Sphere voice (Part 13) Written by Terry Nation (Parts 1, 2, 13) Allan Prior (Part 3) James Follett (Part 4) Ben Steed (Parts 5, 11) Chris Boucher (Parts 6, 8, 12) Roger Parkes (Part 7) Tanith Lee (Part 9) Trevor Hoyle (Part 10) Script editor Chris Boucher Produced by David Maloney Directed by Vere Lorrimer (Parts 1, 6, 10, 11) David Maloney (Part 2) Desmond McCarthy (Parts 3, 4) Gerald Blake (Parts 5, 12) Andrew Morgan (Part 7) Fiona Cumming (Parts 8, 9) Mary Ridge (Part 13) Synopsis Episode 1 After the battle with the invading Andromedans, Star One has been destroyed and the Liberator is severely damaged. Zen informs the crew that the damage is beyond the capacity of the auto-repair circuits and that they should abandon ship. The life capsules are the only means of escape. Avon lands on a beach on the planet Sarran and is found by a girl armed only with a bow and arrow, her name is Dayna. Avon was not the only one who crashed on the planet though, Servalan is also there ... Episode 2 Returning to the Liberator, Avon and Dayna find the ship is now under the command of Federation Space Captain Tarrant and his men. Villa, who is alone and injured on the planet Chenga, is trying to contact Sen, while Cally is on board a hospital ship. Each of them faces unexpected dangers, while Avon finds an unlikely ally ... Episode 3 Tarrant and Dayna teleport down to the planet Obsidian to meet First Citizen Hower, who was a friend of Dayna's father. When Tarrant and Dayna meet with Hower, Tarrant explains they are looking for a planet to use as a home base. On the Liberator, Avon, Cally and Vila are wondering why Obsidian was never colonised by the Federation. Meanwhile, Servalan and her battle fleet are also on their way to Obsidian. Who will be the first to uncover the planet's secret? Episode 4 The Liberator is suffering from slight course deviations whilst en route to Auron. Avon realises they are on course for a black hole and that Orac is endangering the ship just to study the phenomenon. The ship is drawn into the vortex and Cally is injured. Whiolst in the resuscitation capsule, Cally is contacted telepathically by the Thaarn, a mythical creature of Auron legend. Meanwhile, although in a black hole, Vila is forced to make a space walk only to find a floor and gravity exist outside the ship ... Episode 5 Tarrant's intuitive skill as a pilot get the Liberator out of trouble when four Federation pursuit ships attack it. Meanwhile a man called Jarvik has been given the opportunity to make good his boast of being able to capture the Liberator and its crew using only three pursuit ships. He anticipates Tarrant's plan to steel the harvest of Kairos and sets a trap for him and his crewmates ... Episode 6 The Liberator needs a special type of crfystal for its weapons system. Tarrant has made a deal with the inhabitants of the planet Keezarn: Vila is to do some work for them and in return the Liberator would get its crystals. However, Vila is double-crossed and is captured by a band of thugs led b y Bayban the Butcher. Bayban needs Vila to open a door, behind which he believes all the planet's riches are held. But Vila finds more than just material wealth behind the door ... Episode 7 Servalan, in one of her most diabolical plots yet, seeds Cally's home planet of Auron with a deadly plague virus. Cally's clone sister Zelda sends a telepathic distress call to Cally asking for help. However, before thr Liberator can reach Auron, Servalan beats them to it and offers aid to the Auronar who are unaware it was she who had infected them. Servalan has plans for Auran's cloning facility, and she also intends setting a trap for Cally and the Liberator ... Episode 8 Avon has been captured and is being tortured. When an interrogator called Shrinker enter his cell, Avon strings a trap: Tarrant and Dayn a teleport in to rescue Avon and kidnap Shrinker. Avon then turns interrogator: he wants to know what happened to Anna Grant, the woman he loved. He holds Shrtinker responsible for her death. Meanwhile on Earth, a new rebellion is brewing, led by a woman named Sula Chesku ... Episode 9 An alien funeral is taking place. Together with the mourners is a group of masked figures: a jester, a warrior, a lonely woman, a harpist and a dark stranger. The Liberator crew encounters a capsule floating in space. Cally, Vila and Avon board it and realise it is a sarcophagus. They return to the Liberator, bringing with them a strange egg-shaped object. However, it soon becomes clear that an alien spirit is making its presence felt aboard the Liberator ... Episode 10 Vila is on the flight deck trying to teach Orac about jokes and riddles when the Liberator encounters a metallic planet. Cally teleports down to the planet alone. Later the crew receive a message from her asking for help. Avon, Dayna and Tarrant teleport down. Avon realises that the planet is a giant computer. Tarrant finds out the inhabitants want to drain all the information from the crew's minds and store it in the computer, a process what would render them mindless automatons ... Episode 11 The Liberator follows Servalan's ship across uncharted space to a planet contained within an energy barrier. Unable to use the teleport, the crew devise a plan to get Tarrant and Vila to the planet vioa a passing prison ship. The planet has immensely advanced technology, including machines that can replicate matter. Servalan has been tricked into coming there so that her ship can be replicated. Meanwhile, Moloch, the all-powerful ruler, has his own plans for the Liberator ... Episode 12 On board the passenger liner Teal Star, Deeta Tarrant survives an attempt on his life. He is First Champion of the United Planets of Teal and that The Vandor Confederacy has declared war on Teal. The war is fought as a one-on-one duel to the death between the two systems' champions. The Liberator travels to the system to view the battle. However, when they arrive they are shocked to find the Teal Champion is Tarrant's elder brother and the neutral arbiter is non other than Servalan ... Episode 13 Avon is acting unilaterally, altering the course of the Liberator and refusing to explain his action s to the rest of the crew. The ship passes through a cloud of unidentifiable particles with no apparent effect and continues on its way. When the Liberator arrives at its destination, an artificial planet called Terminal, Avon insists on teleporting down alone threatening to kill anybody who follows him. Meanwhile, particles from the cloud that collected on the Liberator's hull are beginning to consume it ...
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