Maximum Power

In (slightly late) honour of the 44th anniversary of Gauda Prime day, we’ve reconvened to look back on the series as a whole. The gang’s all here, except for Mark who’s holding the door open for us when we’re ready to leave. He’ll be fine. Join us as we pit our heroes together in a series Death-Watch matches, chuck Nation, Boucher, Maloney and Lorrimer into a slave pit on Ursa Prime with nothing but a nappy full of mangan to defend themselves, and finally decide once and for all that the...

And now on Maximum Power, our intrepid seven have reconvened to report on the latest remastered Blake’s 7 episodes to be shown on the big screen at the BFI. While Pete, Tom, Dan, Zoe, Col, Hannah and Si are still squeeing about what they’ve just seen, they are interrupted by a mysterious stranger, and this time not in bandages! Could this be their éminence grise? And what can this mysterious stranger, Richard Ashton, tell us about the new Liberator’s origins? Meanwhile back in the studio, Si...

With a grim air of finality and a total disregard for the attempt to turn this show into a terribly serious Space Opera, we look back over Series D of Blake’s 7. Kicking off with a single offscreen death and ending with definitively killing off everyone else maybe, we tour a heretofore unexplored part of the Blake’s 7 universe in our clapped-out orange planet hopper. It’s a bold vision of the future where everything is various shades of ocean, military, and gunmetal grey because of George Lucas,...

This episode, Space Commander Brendan is joined by Councillor Joe Ford and Governor Mark Rawlins to examine further evidence of rebel activity, provided by dissident production house Big Finish. Join them as they investigate the first Liberator Chronicle, The Turing Test, followed by the full cast adventures Fractures and Liberation, before returning to Earth for the first episode of the spin off series Avalon. Spoilers abound, but almost nobody will be tied to an exploding chair provided you...

Blake. Series D, Episode 13. First broadcast on Monday 21 December 1981. …And on the other side of the planet, thousands of miles away, Nathan, Brendan, James, Peter and Simon are wandering through a forest wondering why all these bounty hunters keep leaping out at them from behind the trees. But it’s not long before they hotwire a dodgem and head off down one of those holes in the ground from which everyone, eventually, fails to emerge. Will they find Servalan? Should they? Will ever they learn to trust again? Or at least to let people finish speaking before opening...