#Blake&039;s 7

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Charity Blake's 7 first series Production Diary set for release this weekend

A not-for-profit book offering an in-depth look at the production of the first series of Terry Nation's SF adventure series, Blake's 7, the Blake's 7 Series A Production Diary, will be available to order this weekend

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Richard Franklin (1936- 2023)

Richard Franklin (1936- 2023), #DoctorWho's Captain Mike Yates

Richard Franklin, who played UNIT’s Captain Mike Yates in Doctor Who, has passed away, aged 87. The actor passed away in his sleep after fighting a long-term illness on Christmas Day morning 2023. Yes, it has taken longer than it should have done to report his passing, but obituaries are funny things, especially for those people we really care about. Acknowledging someone important isn’t part of…

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The World of Blake’s 7: Tarrant released today

The World of Blake’s 7: Tarrant released today

From the Federation to the Liberator, The World of Blake’s 7: Tarrant explores the life of the cunning space pilot (played by Steven Pacey) and is released today by Big Finish Productions. Soldier, Federation Space Commander, smuggler, freedom fighter. Del Tarrant has challenged convention throughout his many careers in a hostile galaxy. These are the stories of his choices and challenges, his…

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Radio Free Skaro #904 - Across the Universe

Radio Free Skaro #904 - Across the Universe - Murray Gold returns to #DoctorWho! - @DWMTweets issue 590! - Epic length edition of The Timelash!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs904.mp3 Download MP3 A beloved tunesmith is back in action as Murray Gold returns to Doctor Who, the latest in a string of RTDists to join their blue box pals once more. If horror and panic is more your thing, the LAX Marriott does HOTELMAGEDDON as the first Gallifrey One room block will be available May 12, so gird your loins appropriately! Also there’s a…

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Stewart Bevan passes away aged 73

Stewart Bevan passes away aged 73

It is Cult Faction’s sad duty to report that Stewart Bevan has passed away at the age of 73 years old. The sad news was broken by his ex-partner and former Doctor Who co-star Katy Manning on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ManningOfficial/status/1495790087841493000 https://twitter.com/ManningOfficial/status/1495793401362591748 Bevan played Professor Clifford Jones M.B.E. in six episodes of Doctor…

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#151 Reading Blake's 7 - Lucifer by Paul Darrow

#151 Reading Blake’s 7 – Lucifer by Paul Darrow

Front cover of Blake’s 7 – Lucifer by Paul Darrow Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I am a big fan of Blake’s 7 which was one of my science fiction influences when growing up. The final episode in which *spoiler alert* Avon apparently kills Blake and then, due to a fade to black, meets an uncertain fate, always left an opening for a sequel which never seemed to arrive. Paul…

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Tread Perilously — Blake’s 7: Animals Tread Perilously's "People on Ships" sci-fi month continues with the Blake's 7 episode "Animals." Dayna attempts to recruit one of her old professors to the revolution.

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MarkWHO42’s Mark Baumgarten and Zion Quiros pay tribute to the late Paul Darrow, Kerr Avon…

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Paul Darrow, 1941-2019

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Growing up in the 70s meant looking up at the stars and wondering when we’d find alien life. We started the decade with the last few manned flights to the moon by both the United States and the Soviets. Astronauts and cosmonauts competing to plant their flag on its surface.

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This generated a deeply nerdy fascination among many kids in the whole subject of space travel. Whether it was buying models of space craft, reading sci-fi comics or watching TV dramas about UFOs and extra-terrestrials – the 70s wanted us to focus on galaxies far, far away.

Teatime viewing after school could have involved The Tomorrow People on ITV – a rather baffling show about young people with special powers in a disused London Underground station solving galactic mysteries. For a while, it featured a character played by the drummer of a real-life pop band called Flintlock.

While over on the BBC, you could fly into outer space with our very own answer to Star Trek – yes, I give you Blake’s 7. At the time, it seemed amazing. On a re-watch, it’s like a group of Shakespearian actors condemned to roam the solar system harrumphing at each other.

There were an astonishing number of outer space related movies from the obvious E.T and Star Wars through to Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes, Death Race 2000, Alien, Logan’s Run, The Andromeda Strain and so on… Plus the 70s gave us a heap of conspiracy theories with the movie Capricorn One, for example, illustrating how the moon landings never happened.

Meanwhile, as a kid in the London suburbs, I collected Brooke Bond picture cards of space related stuff and stuck them into the album supplied. Found the album the other day and it’s such a cool, retro piece of 70s kitsch. God I loved that decade!

  70s kids obsessed with outer space Growing up in the 70s meant looking up at the stars and wondering when we'd find alien life.

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In Memoriam: Comic Artist and Writer Nick Spender

We’re sorry to report the unexpected passing of comic artist, writer and illustrator Nick Spender, whose numerous credits spanned a 40-year career

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Chris Boucher (1943 – 2022)

Chris Boucher (1943 – 2022), Fan Favourite #DoctorWho Writer

A casual glance at a Doctor Who episode guide could suggest that Chris Boucher wrote just three stories for the Fourth Doctor in 1977. But simple facts like that won’t explain why – despite his limited contributions – Chris Boucher is held in such high regard by Doctor Who fans. He never wrote a Dalek, Cyberman, or Master story, a regeneration or multi-Doctor adventure. His greatest legacy in…

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A Del Tarrant boxset for The Worlds of Blake's 7

A Del Tarrant boxset for The Worlds of Blake's 7

Steven Pacey stars in a brand-new box set of audio drama set in The Worlds of Blake’s 7, due for release in June 2024 from Big Finish Productions. NB — the image above is for illustrative purposes only, and not cover artwork. In The Worlds of Blake’s 7: Tarrant, he returns to the role he first played from 1980 to 1981 in the original Blake’s 7 TV series. The three full-cast stories focus on the…

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Radio Free Skaro #775 - Organonic Chemistry

Radio Free Skaro #775 - Organonic Chemistry, featuring the first half of our #DoctorWho Classic Series Commentary for "The Creature From The Pit"!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs775.mp3 Download MP3 The countdown has begun for both an end to Our Year of Complete Garbage 2020 and “Revolution of the Daleks”, airing New Year’s Day and which apparently contains a new scene filmed in the aforementioned Year Of Badness. The New Year’s special will also be available from the BBC in 4K HDR, and if audio is your thing, gentleman…

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Sunday, February 2, 2020

Sunday, February 2, 2020

I don’t know how the weather is wherever y’all are, but today’s one of those days that almost makes rural Northeast Mississippi worth the effort, even if it’s just in knowing the summer’s going to be a booger. Even now, it’s going be nasty before the week’s out. But for the nonce, let’s all just enjoy it.

Believe I’ll take Otis out for a walk after my nap. He gets to stay outside all he wants…

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Pippa Steel

Pippa Steel was born on April 15, 1948 in Flensburg, Germany. She made her first TV appearence playing Daphne in the first episode of Katy. She went on to appear in The Jokers, Stranger in the House, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, Department S, and UFO. In 1970 she was discovered by Hammer via her agent and cast in two of the Karnstein trilogy, The Vampire Lovers and Lust for a Vampire. In The Vampire…