Series C, Episode 8. First broadcast on Monday 25 February 1980.
Episode 39
Sunday 17 December 2023
This week on Maximum Power, Col’s been in a Federation interrogation cell for five days, he knew if he held out Si would show up eventually, meanwhile Nathan’s crawling across the grounds of Servalan’s Presidential Palace with a yellow box strapped to his back in an attempt to block the building’s surveillance, Una’s plotting to overthrow the government, and James finally finds himself chained to the wall of an underground room, it’s an old wall, it waits.
Join us as we discuss Series C, Episode 8 of Blake’s 7 - Rumours of Death.
Series C, Episode 7. First broadcast on Tuesday 19 February 1980.
Episode 38
Sunday 10 December 2023
And now on Maximum Power, the Liberator crew find themselves en route to the planet Auron on a mission to save the Children of Auron.
This week, Peter receives a telepathic communication from his twin, Pete: “They’re all dying. Help us. Help Auron!” Supreme Commander Col has infected an Auron pilot with a deadly space pathogen as part of a plot to get access to the Auronar’s cloning technology, wiping out the population in the process. All is not lost howerver, Simon and Brendan manage to escape the planet with the Auron gene stocks, and set course for the planet Khan to restart the Auron race, lucky them.
Series C, Episode 6. First broadcast on Monday 11 February 1980.
Episode 37
Sunday 3 December 2023
And now on Maximum Power our intrepid team head to the City at the Edge of the World.
This week Mark hopes all his mistakes have nice legs, Simon realises every silver lining has a cloud, Pete is treating every hour like his last and Si is just the stupid son of a slime ball, but what will they make of this Chris Boucher episode?
Series C, Episode 5. First broadcast on Monday 4 February 1980.
Episode 36
Sunday 26 November 2023
And now on Maximum Power, we’re manly men coveting Kairopan, as we try and steal The Harvest of Kairos!
This week Peter finds teleporting not an unpleasant way to travel because he is a man, Simon is a man who has nothing to say to Servalan, Colin could take The Liberator with a single ship because he’s a man, Si was a special kind of man, and Pete would like to discuss that degrading and primitive act to which he was subjected in the control room… He should like you to do it again (because he’s a man).
Series C, Episode 4. First broadcast on Monday 28 January 1980.
Episode 35
Sunday 19 November 2023
This week on Maximum Power, the Liberator is being dragged off course by a strange force from the other side of a black hole. James, Nathan and Peter soon find themselves in a strange place where the normal laws of physics don’t apply. Here they are taken prisoner by the fabulous Adam, caliph to the mysterious Thaarn, a god from Auron legend. Will our intrepid crew be able escape the black hole’s gravitational pull, find out as we discover the Dawn of the Gods.
Series C, Episode 3. First broadcast on Monday 21 January 1980.
Episode 34
Sunday 12 November 2023
And now on Maximum Power, Mark, Peter, Colin and Nathan have all decided to set up a colony devoted to pacifism not far away from an enormous active volcano containing a leaky nuclear bomb. Things are going just about as well as you might expect when Dayna and Tarrant arrive to patronise them and to cadge some free drinks, while in orbit above the colony, Servalan and the crew of the Liberator find themselves exchanging witty barbs and plumbing new levels of incompetence.
Join us as we discuss the thorny political and philosophical issues raised by the pacifist position, in Volcano.
Series C, Episode 2. First broadcast on Monday 14 January 1980.
Episode 33
Sunday 5 November 2023
And now on Maximum Power, Mark and Colin finally arrive back on board the Liberator with their new friend James Cooray-Smith, only to find an uncharacteristically rough-looking Michael Sheard, and a dramatically handsome new leading man who seems to be trying to impress them by murdering a whole bunch of people. Meanwhile, back on the planet Chenga, Peter and Brendan meet a group of attractive young women who have come up with an alarming new way of solving the Trolley Problem (Organ Donor Variant).
Join us as we discuss the final part of this dramatic two-part series opener — Powerplay.
Series C, Episode 1. First broadcast on Monday 7 January 1980.
Episode 32
Sunday 29 October 2023
And now on Maximum Power, our fearless space crew are reeling from the aftermath of the intergalactic war. While some of them take a break until next week, others go missing until later this year, and some of them are never seen again!
This week, Nathan finds himself on the planet Sarran, his clothes in tatters and his Federation in ruins. Never fear, Si’s on hand to lend him a floaty purple dress, it’s a little old fashioned, and not his colour, but it’ll do very nicely. James tells us he likes the ancient weapons, they’re more exciting, more dangerous, and without danger there’s no pleasure. And, Peter thinks that must limit your range of pleasures a bit.
Join us for the premiere of Series C of Blake’s 7 - Aftermath.
Blakes 7: The Classic Adventures 1. Released January 2013
Episode 31
Sunday 22 October 2023
And now on Maximum Power, Si displays his famous optimism, Col almost gets the chance to demonstrate an old smuggler’s trick, Mark can be spared to go down to Megiddo, and finally Pete finds his telepathic powers are boosted by being in this region of space, or somewhere near Birmingham at least.
Join our fearless crew as they take a sidestep into audio with Big Finish’s first full cast Blake’s 7 drama and prequel to Series C - Warship!
And now on Maximum Power, we take a look back at Series B of Blake’s 7.
Our adventure has taken us from the clutches of The System on Spaceworld, to the machinations of the Terra Nostra on Space City. From the planet of the Clone Masters, to Space Command, and Horizon, Earth, Space Command, and to a planet with an ocean made of spit.
We’ve been to Federation Q-Base on the planet Fosforon, Exbar, Albian, Space Command, Atlay (and its conference centre), Freedom City, Goth, Space Command, and finally on, with luck, to Star One.
But what have we learned from the experience? Join us for The Series B Retrospective and find out!
