Series D, Episode 12. First broadcast on Monday 14 December 1981.
Episode 59
Sunday 9 March 2025
This week Mark hosts a conference of non-aligned podcasters, Brendan goes to see the Federation’s acrobatic display team, Peter has an ill-advised fling, and Toby asks if are you a Zukan or a Zukan’t.
It’s the penultimate episode of Blake’s 7 — Warlord.
(“But blurbs are no more than… blurbs.”)
Series D, Episode 11. First broadcast on Monday 7 December 1981.
Episode 58
Sunday 2 March 2025
Will Si, Nathan, Peter and Simon be able to escape with the Tachyon Funnel and their lives? Will their replica of Orac give more information than requested, less information than requested or just the information that’s requested? And which of the crew weighs 73 kilos?
Escape velocity is confirmed — but unattainable. Will they be able to achieve Orbit?
Series D, Episode 10. First broadcast on Monday 30 November 1981.
Episode 57
Sunday 23 February 2025
Pete’s getting heist by his own petard, Tom’s sent a video of himself not stealing gold to trick us, Peter’s nearly felled by an airlock trip hazard, and Si wants to know WHAT’S THE SNAG?
Everyone gets to play their part, as this week’s episode is worth its weight in Gold.
Series D, Episode 9. First broadcast on Monday 23 November 1981.
Episode 56
Sunday 16 February 2025
Pete’s forgotten his bucket, Simon’s broken his spade, Kate’s got entangled in a windbreaker, and Adam was last seen chasing an ice cream van across the dunes in high heels.
It’s Sand! Which, like Tarrant this week, gets everywhere, as he discovers that even after fixing the food machine for her, Servalan will still have him for breakfast.
Series D, Episode 8. First broadcast on Monday 16 November 1981.
Episode 55
Sunday 9 February 2025
This week, Nathan, Brendan, Simon and James sneak aboard an orbital station somewhere near the planet Mecron 2, where they will encounter a series of increasingly lethal versions of Flappy Bird, in the hope of finding, once and for all, some explanation of whatever the hell happens at the end of the Blake’s 7 episode Games.
And because you will forever regret it if you don’t look it up, here’s a link to the triangular Coleco Telstar Arcade from 1997 with its Mecronian-knife shaped cartridges.
Series D, Episode 7. First broadcast on Monday 9 November 1981.
Episode 54
Sunday 2 February 2025
After Mark, Peter, Brendan and Nathan intercept an ominous message from the very edge of the sixth quadrant, fearing imminent assassination at the hands of an imminent assassin, they head off to the planet Domo for a quick slave auction, followed by a tight twenty minutes of being hunted through TC1 by the man who came top of his class at RADA in Glowering and Other Menacing Facial Expressions. But will it be fun to listen to all their little plans and squabbles? Tune in and find out — as we discuss Assassin.
Series D, Episode 6. First broadcast on Monday 2 November 1981.
Episode 53
Sunday 26 January 2025
The hunt for experts continues in this series of Maximum Power, as this week we try and recruit Jon Helm, the Galaxy’s greatest expert on everything Blakes 7. But will he lose his head before the episode is out? Will Hannah end up hugged to death? Was it sensible to send Pete and Si on a mission together when it might lead to the subjugation of the entire human race?
But, most urgently, will this episode fulfil your greatest desires? Or doesn’t it know where to start?
It’s Headhunter.
Series D, Episode 5. First broadcast on Monday 26 October 1981.
Episode 52
Sunday 19 January 2025
Pete is ready for a nice sit-down in Servalan’s Comfortable Chair of Maximum Persuasion, Nathan is cleaning out the bilge tanks with half a glass of wine and a comedy oboe, Mark’s trying to spark romance between an insurrectionist shaman and Sweetums the Muppet, and Peter is howling out his rage by saying ‘rarrrrr!’ with perfect diction.
Will there be fierce agreement, or will the fur fly as we discuss Animals?
Series D, Episode 4. First broadcast on Monday 19 October 1981.
Episode 51
Sunday 12 January 2025
Brendan’s Vin Diesel impersonation has knackered Scorpio even more than usual, and James is avoiding repairs by pretending he’s had too much Red Bull. Conrad has found a solution by studying slow motion footage of a biker’s helmet, but it will only work if we can disguise the fact that Mark refuses to go on location. It’s Stardrive.
Series D, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday 12 October 1981.
Episode 50
Sunday 5 January 2025
We’re on the planet Helotrix this week, enjoying our successful subjugation of a compliant populace consisting largely of teachers and hairdressers. The occupation is ably enforced by the supremely competent Si and his régime of casually deployed neutron strikes, while Nathan reminisces pompously about past imperial glories, and Pete conducts a surprising clandestine affair with that remarkable new police commissioner Sleer. (And somewhere, in the basement, Simon is devising a galactically effective new kind of roofie.)
Until, of course, our day is ruined by a small band of barely competent outlaws, and then one of us — not sure who, to be honest — turns out to be a traitor.
