Blakes' 7: Season Four
Episode Details
Stranded on Terminal, both the base and Servalan's ship are booby trapped,
and explode, killing Cally, and damaging Orac.
A mysterious stranger, Dorian, and his glamourous sidekick, Soolin,
arrive on Terminal, seemingly friendly, and rescue the
crew of the Liberator. They proceed to Dorian's base on the barren planet
Xenon.
But Dorian is not all he seems. He wants Orac to help him perfect his
teleport system, and secondly he wants Avon, Vila, Dayna and Tarrant
as fodder for his regeneration program deep down in the depths of the
Xenon base.
For once Vila does the right thing and brings
a gun down to help out.
After killing Dorian, the enigmatic Soolin decides to join them.
Review by Nick Alex (Nick.Alex@psemail.ps.net)
The crew need to get to Scorpio to get supplies, but can't penetrate
the door to the launch hatch. It will only open to Dorian's voice.
Worse still, if he doesn't reset the lock every 48 hours, it will
trigger an explosion that will destroy the base. Meanwhile Avon is
looking for crystals to complete the teleport systems when he is
attacked by a bunch of ancient tribesman who are guardians of
technology way beyond their comprehension. He inadvertently gets
challenged to go into battle in an ancient fighting ritual.
Review by Nick Alex (Nick.Alex@psemail.ps.net)
Avon is alarmed at the speed of the Federation's spread across a nearby
star system, with apparently little resistance. The reason is a
pacification drug called Pylene-50, and the crew decide to go to
Helotrix (enmeshed in a civil war) to recover the drug and develop
an antidote. However they get more than they bargain for and discover
an old adversary, now calling herself Sleer.
Review by Nick Alex (Nick.Alex@psemail.ps.net)
Having got a new ship, a base, and a new teleport system, the rebels
now need the engine to give them the edge that the Liberator had in
terms of speed. Dayna discovers a mystery explosion, which Orac
reveals was caused by a one-man-ship travelling at immense speed. They
work out that it belongs to a band of `Hells Angels in Space', and
decide to find out if they'll join the Resistance. The inventor of the
`Stardrive' Dr. Plaxton (an exile from the Federation) has had enough
of life with the Hells Angels, and agrees to help, but Avon ensures
she pays a high price.
Review by Nick Alex (Nick.Alex@psemail.ps.net)
genetic engineering gone wrong...
The one with the headless robot...
The crew intercept a mysterious transmission in which Servalan is
hiring the services of a professional assassin to dispose of the
crew of the Scorpio. Even Avon is depressed since the assassin
has never been known to fail in a mission.
Clue: Sweet things share one thing; the ability to make you sick!
The crew become involved in a series of deadly games...
Tarrant and Servalan are trapped together on a planet covered in
semi-intelligent man-eating sand. Unfortunately, they both survive.
Review by Michael Van Hoose (hoose@accessus.net)
When Keiller, the purser of the cruise ship Space Princess, makes Scorpio's
crew a lucrative offer, Avon is loath to refuse. After all, who could resist
the temptation to hijack 17 billion in gold, especially if it belongs to
Servalan!
A scientist who disappeared many years ago offers a revolutionary
new device, the tachyon funnel for sale to the highest bidder.
Avon and Servelan (aka Commander Slear) are the prime bidders, but
what is the dark secret about the technology?
Avon tries to construct an alliance against the Federation from
amongst the worlds not yet conquered.
At first all seems to be going well, until it becomes apparant
that one the leaders is a traitor and has released a deadly toxin
inside the base.
Orac becomes convinced that Blake is now on Gouda Prime, Soolin's
homeworld.
The crew head there but Scorpio is shot down by the planetary
defense force and crash lands in a forest.
Blake is indeed there, but is he merely the bait in a Federation
trap?
Choose: return to the Blakes 7 front page,
or back to season three.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
19th July 1995