Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for broadcast on its station BBC1. Four 13-episode series of Blake's 7 were produced and broadcast between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation prolific television writer and creator of the Daleks for the television series Doctor Who, and the script editor was Chris Boucher. The series was inspired by a range of fictional media, including The Dirty Dozen, Robin Hood, Brave New World, Star Trek, classic Westerns and real-world political conflicts in South America and Israel. Set in a future age of... interstellar travel, the series follows the exploits of a group of renegades and convicted criminals. Gareth Thomas played the titular character Roj Blake, a political dissident who is arrested, tried and convicted on false charges and deported from Earth to a prison planet. He and two fellow prisoners commandeer an abandoned alien spacecraft, rescue two more prisoners and are joined by an alien guerrilla with telepathic abilities.
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