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| '''Blake's 7''' was a [[human]] TV show, one which the [[First Doctor]] was not fond of. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Big Hand for the Doctor]]'') | | {{wikipediainfo}} |
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| | '''''Blake's 7''''' was a [[human]] [[television]] show of which the [[First Doctor]] was not fond. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)}}) [[Tegan Jovanka]] mentioned the series once, saying that she understood the concept of [[transmat]]s — or in ''Blake's 7'' terms, [[teleportation]] — having seen it on the show. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cold Fusion (novel)}}) |
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| [[Tegan Jovanka]] mentioned the series once, saying that she understood the concept of [[transmat]]s (or in ''Blake's 7'' terms, teleportation), having seen it on the show. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion]]'') | | In a [[Parallel universe (TV Action!)|parallel universe]], actors from ''Blake's 7'' were [[hypnosis|hypnotised]] by [[Beep the Meep]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|TV Action! (comic story)}}) |
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| [[Bernice Summerfield]] obtained two episodes of ''Blake's 7'' on [[VHS]]. Bernice Summerfield noted that [[Roj Blake]] seemed to exist both as a fictional character and as a real person, "which can't be right". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Least Important Man]]'') Benny also had mentioned knowing someone who was in [[Blake's 7 (terrorist group)|Blake's 7]], which she quickly qualified with "the terrorist group, not the TV show". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Death and Diplomacy]]'')
| | ''Blake's 7'' was the favourite television series of [[Gavin Oliver Scott]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Least Important Man (short story)}}) In [[2600]], [[Bernice Summerfield]] obtained two episodes of the series for him on [[VHS]]. She noted that she knew a distant acquaintance of someone who was in [[Blake's 7 (terrorist group)|Blake's 7]] – the [[terrorist]] organisation, not the [[television]] show, which "can't be right". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dead Men Diaries (short story)}}) |
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| == Behind the Scenes == | | == External links == |
| '''''Blake's 7''''' (alternately styled as '''''Blakes 7''''' or '''''Blake's Seven''''') was a [[science fiction]] adventure drama television series in the [[Wikipedia:space opera|space opera]] sub-genre which had a considerable cross-over between its crew and that of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', which was airing at the same time. Some [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]] stories have featured [[crossover character|crossovers]] between elements of ''Blake's 7'' and ''Doctor Who''. It was created by [[Dalek]] creator [[Terry Nation]].
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| === Overview ===
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| ==== Premise and tone ====
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| The series was set an unspecified time in the future. The first two seasons concerned the adventures of the experienced but still idealistic rebel [[Roj Blake]] and the crew of the ''[[Wikipedia:Liberator (Blake's 7)|Liberator]]'', an alien [[starship]] they had acquired. They fought the despotic [[Wikipedia:Terran Federation|Terran Federation]], represented by [[WIkipedia:Servalan|Servalan]], aided by [[Wikipedia:Travis (Blake's 7)|Travis]].
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| In the third season, Blake vanished and was replaced by his second in command, the vengeful genius [[Wikipedia:Kerr Avon|Kerr Avon]]. The ''Liberator'' was destroyed at the end of the season and in the next replaced by another starship, the ''[[Wikipedia:Scorpio (Blake's 7)|Scorpio]]''.
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| ''Blake's 7'' was a less fundamentally optimistic series than ''Doctor Who''. The majority of the protagonists met violent deaths during the course of the series and the dystopian setting remaining basically unchanged or even, perhaps, got worse as a result of the actions of the rebels.
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| Aliens and "monsters" appeared, though rarely, with the arguable exception of [[Wikipedia:Cally|Cally]], a [[telepathy|telepathic]] crew member who either came from a telepathic non-human species or from a race of biologically modified humans. The human Terran Federation was, apparently, the only major power structure throughout the sector of space visited by the crew.
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| ==== Production history ====
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| ''Blake's 7'' was first broadcast on [[BBC 1]] between [[1978]] and [[1981]]. Its characters, setting was created by, and, for the first season, was entirely written by [[Terry Nation]], the creator of the [[Dalek]]s. Prolific ''Doctor Who'' director [[David Maloney]] produced the first three seasons of the series (sometimes referred to as Season A, Season B and Season C) and [[Chris Boucher]], the writer of several ''Doctor Who'' serials, acted as [[script editor]] on all four seasons and wrote several episodes of the last three. Former ''Doctor Who'' script editor [[Robert Holmes]], on declining the job of script editor of ''Blake's 7'', had suggested Boucher as a substitute.
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| A revival or a reboot has been mooted since [[2000]], but has not managed to get anywhere.
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| On [[4 July]] [[2011]], [[Big Finish Productions]] announced they had acquired the licence to produce new audiobooks and novels based on ''Blake's 7.'' The new stories premieree in [[2012]]. [http://www.bigfinish.com/news/Blakes-7-New-Audiobooks-and-Novels-in-2012-]
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| ==== Production Materials ====
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| * Many generic science-fiction props appeared in both series. For instance, ray guns carried by [[Bayban]]'s men in ''City at the Edge of the World'' were also used by the [[Foster (job title)|Fosters]] in ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]''.
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| * Model footage (of explosions and so on) was also occasionally recycled (for instance, the same footage is used to show the destruction of a DSV in ''Redemption'' and [[Mawdryn]]'s ship in ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'').
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| * More specifically, Federation trooper uniforms were reused as [[Orderly]] uniforms in ''[[Frontios]]''.
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| * [[Sea Devil]] costumes were cosmetically altered and used to represent Phibians in ''Orac'' and Dorian's former associate in ''Rescue''.
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| === In-Universe Crossovers ===
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| [[Chris Boucher|Chris Boucher's]] novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[Corpse Marker (novel)|Corpse Marker]]'', a sequel to [[TV]]: ''[[The Robots of Death]]'', features the psychostrategist [[Carnell]], a character who had first appeared in the ''Blake's 7'' episode ''Weapon''. The novel indicates that he settled on [[Kaldor]] two years after he first went on the run from the Federation, which would have followed his failure in ''Weapon''. The character appeared again in the [[Kaldor City (audio series)|Kaldor City]] series of audio stories. Many fans of the series have postulated that [[Kaston Iago|Iago]], as played by [[Paul Darrow]], the main protagonist in the series, is in fact Kerr Avon going for his own reasons under an assumed name. [[Magic Bullet Productions]] have neither confirmed nor denied this. Most significantly, in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Metafiction (audio story)|Metafiction]]'', Iago describes his life before he arrived on Kaldor, in doing so he makes many references to plot elements that mirror those experienced by Avon as featured in ''Blake’s 7''. If taken a face value, these references could be taken as positive confirmation that Iago is in fact Avon. However the nature of the play, as suggested by its title, implies that all may not be what it seems.
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| The [[First Doctor]] was not fond of the series, as per [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Big Hand for the Doctor]]''. The fact that the First Doctor is said to not like ''Blake's 7'' is ironic, as [[Richard Hurndall]], the man who played the First Doctor in ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', was first noted by the ''Doctor Who'' crew for his appearance on ''Blake's 7''.
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| ==== Proposed crossovers ====
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| A crossover between the two series was proposed at least twice.
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| The last episode of Season B of ''Blake's 7'' featured an invasion of the galaxy by aliens, called Andromedans, from outside the Galaxy. The aliens were so powerful that the crew of the ''Liberator'' pitched in with the Federation to fight them off. Terry Nation had wanted to feature the [[Dalek]]s as the invading force. However, as Chris Boucher recalls, the idea was strongly rejected by the producer and Boucher himself.
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| [[Tom Baker]] and [[Gareth Thomas]], who played Blake, thought it would be amusing for the Doctor and Blake to meet for a few seconds in a corridor on either ''Doctor Who'' or ''Blake's 7'', but this idea was, again, over-ruled.
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| == External links ==
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| * ''[http://www.bigfinish.com/Blakes-7 Blake's 7]'' at [[Big Finish Productions]]
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| * ''[[w:c:blakes7:Blake's 7|Blake's 7]]'' at the [[W:c:blakes7:Main Page|Blake's 7 Wiki]]
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