Blake's 7

Description

New edition of the Terry Nation classic Galactic freedom fighters battle The Federation. Accused of a brutal crime and exiled from Dome City, where a vicious regime wields dictatorial power, Roj Blake swears vengeance on the corrupt leaders who have destroyed his future. Hijacking the Liberator, the most advanced spacecraft ever created, Blake travels to the sinister planet Cygnus Alpha and risks everything to rescue other victims of the regime. And with these allies he forms a new fighting force to combat galactic injustice and fight The Federation. Blake's 7 is born.

Terry Nation was born in 1930 in Wales. After briefly joining his father's furniture-making business and attempting stand-up comedy, Nation turned his hand to writing and worked on radio scripts for The Goon Show and a range of TV dramas such as The Saint, The Avengers, Z Cars, The Baron, The Champions, Department S and The Persuaders. He also went on to write about 100 episodes of Doctor Who and worked on popular American TV series. He died in Los Angeles in 1997. Trevor Hoyle was born in 1940 in Rochdale, Lancashire. In the late 1970s he gained recognition for his "Q" series, featuring Christian Queghan, a scientific investigator possessing the ability to journey through time as well as to hypothetical worlds and well as the highly popular Blake's 7 novels.

Blake's 7: 40 years on, the dystopian sci-fi drama still packs a punch * GUARDIAN * A genuine classic * TELEGRAPH * It was forward thinking in the use of ongoing storylines and has been cited as an influence on such shows as Babylon 5, Firefly and Deep Space 9 * SFFCHRONICLES.COM * One of the most popular sci-fi series Britain has ever produced * DOUX REVIEWS * A serious home grown science fiction adventure series * TelevisionHeaven.co.uk *