By Long before “Firefly” and “Farscape” there was “Blake’s 7,” the subversive low-budget British space opera sci-fi series famous for breaking the “Star Trek”-style formula.
Terry Nation, who created the Daleks on “Doctor Who,” created the series which followed the exploits of Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas) as he led a band of escaped prisoners onboard a stolen spaceship against the forces of the totalitarian Terran Federation and its Supreme Commander Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce).
This isn’t a happy crew – rather it’s a dysfunctional group of cynical thieves, murderers and dissidents forced to work together but always furthering their own agendas.
While production values were limited by its incredibly threadbare budget, the show was well ahead of its time in other ways – morally ambiguous, political, often brutal, filled with complex characters (many of which got killed off randomly to ensure suspense), dark and pessimistic themes, and employed serial storylines and seasonal cliffhangers.
Today the BBC has announced “Blake’s 7: The Collection,” the show’s official arrival on Blu-ray with a remastered collection of all four seasons starting with the first on November 11th.
Much like the “Doctor Who” Blu-rays, the series has been remastered and boasts new practical model work for the show’s VFX sequences along with new interviews with surviving cast and crew and a previously unreleased documentary.
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