# Tell Me About "Blake's 7" -- Spoilers Welcome

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 8, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blakes-7-spoilers-welcome/153786 "2003-02-08T23:55:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blakes-7-spoilers-welcome/153786/21 "2003-02-11T16:48:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by tanstaafl \*  
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> The company BFS was supposed to be releasing the entire series of _Blake’s 7_ on DVD in the US but it has since dropped off their release list and there is no release date at this time. Too bad. I was looking forward to seeing it again. \*\*

It’s coming out on R2 DVD this year. Between that, Buffy, Babylon 5 and the quality Stargate discs we get, it’s time for US skiffy fans to start getting their players modded.

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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blakes-7-spoilers-welcome/153786/22 "2003-02-11T16:51:43Z")

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I remember for a while I had it down for a Capitalism vs. Communism motif, but I think that was just my over-eager teen imagination. Which, like everyone else at the time, I more sensibly directed at Servalan – a more obvious yet perfect example of how to make sure your target market tunes in, I’ve yet to see … okay, there’s Seven of Nine ….

Fwiw, I always enjoyed it. The scriptwriting was exceptional at times, I particularly likes the spunky (in a manly way … ) Avon / Blake relationship.

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**Author:** ![TheRealJohnPeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TheRealJohnPeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheRealJohnPeat)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blakes-7-spoilers-welcome/153786/23 "2003-02-11T23:29:48Z")

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Pointless Fact:

The Orb did a track called “a huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld” (on an album called “beyond the ultraworld”) which is taken straight from a Blakes 7 episode title/description 🙂

Pointless Fact 2:  
At the end of Series 1 there was no plan to continue and so a lot of props etc. were given away in competitions or destroyed - which led to them have to ‘share’ guns and teleporter bracelets etc. in the 2nd series - if you watch carefully you can see them passing them around 🙂

It was my ‘thing’ as a kid but I now find it rather hard to watch 🙂

TTFN

JP

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