**************************************************************** * The BLAKE'S SEVEN "Liberator LogBook" Part * * "The Way Back" - "Blake" Two * ** 1978 ************************************************ 1981 ** written by Earl Green Supplied by Alex van Kaam "Blake's 7" created by Terry Nation @~Continued from Issue 45 05 THE WEB 1/30/78 written by Terry Nation directed by Michael E. Briant Cally begins sabotaging the Liberator and attacks Vila. Blake and Avon rush to stop her as the sensors go inoperative and it rapidly becomes apparent that Cally is not in control of her actions. The Liberator enters a huge, spaceborne web that slows the ship down and brings it to a planet inside the web. Blake teleports down and is injured by a tiny creature's spear. A couple of humanoid beings appear, kill the animal, and miraculously heal Blake's wound. It transpires that the animals - ten-function, artificial slaves called the Decimas - were created by Geela and Novara, who are under the control of Saymon - whose telepathic impulses had been controlling Cally - and the Decimas have now become independent and their creators are attempting to destroy them. They leave Blake no choice: they demand power cells in exchange for the release of the Liberator. But as Avon arrives with the cells, the Decimas attack the control building, killing their creators. Blake and Avon return to the Liberator as the web dissolves and continue their journeys. Cast: Gareth Thomas (Blake), Sally Knyvette (Jenna), Paul Darrow (Avon), Jan Chappell (Cally), Michael Keating (Vila), David Jackson (Gan), Peter Tuddenham (Zen), Richard Beale (Saymon), Ania Marson (Geela), Miles Fothergill (Novara), Deep Roy, Gilda Cohen, Ismet Hassam, Marcus Powell, Molly Tweedly, Willie Sheara (Decimas) 06 SEEK-LOCATE-DESTROY 2/6/78 written by Terry Nation directed by Vere Lorrimer The Liberator crew mounts an attack on a Federation base on Centero, their main objective: to procure a decoder for the Federation's top priority military communications channel. They manage to get the unit and set explosive charges, but Cally is attacked and loses her teleport bracelet. The others return to the ship and discover there that she must still be on Centero. They learn through the decoder that Supreme Commander Servalan of the Federation has assigned the notorious Space Commander Travis to the "Blake affair" and that Travis is already on Centero in charge of the investigations. Blake returns to Centero to save Cally, realizing that Travis - his arch enemy from the earlier revolt against the Federation - will stop at nothing to see the Liberator crew dead. Blake uses one of Travis's old strategies to slip into the base, free Cally, and escape. Cast: Gareth Thomas (Blake), Sally Knyvette (Jenna), Paul Darrow (Avon), Jan Chappell (Cally), Michael Keating (Vila), David Jackson (Gan), Peter Tuddenham (Zen), Stephen Grief (Travis), Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan), Peter Craze (Prell), Peter Miles (Rontane), John Bryans (Bercol), Ian Cullen (Escon), Ian Oliver (Rai), Astley Jones (Eldon) 07 MISSION TO DESTINY 2/13/78 written by Terry Nation directed by Pennant Roberts The Liberator stops to aid a damaged spacecraft whose crew is entirely asleep when Blake, Cally and Avon arrive. The ship's guidance systems and life support system have been sabotaged. When Blake and Avon get the life support system back online, the crew has no idea what has happened. Kendall, the captain of the ship, reveals that he and his people are from the agricultural world Destiny, whose ecosphere has become unviable. The ship was dispatched to get the neutrotope, which would render Destiny fertile again, and with its damage, the ship has no hope of reaching Destiny in any time under five months, and that delay could set the planet's harvest back by another year. Blake makes Kendall an offer: Avon and Cally will stay aboard to help repair the ship's systems, and the neutrotope will reach Destiny in four days via the Liberator. Avon and Cally slowly unravel the mystery of numerous occurring murders on the ship and finally find that a message written by the dying pilot - 54124 - is actually the name of the murderer... Cast: Gareth Thomas (Blake), Sally Knyvette (Jenna), Paul Darrow (Avon), Jan Chappell (Cally), Michael Keating (Vila), David Jackson (Gan), Peter Tuddenham (Zen), Barry Jackson (Kendall), Beth Morris (Sara), Stephen Tate (Mandrian), Nigel Humphreys (Sonheim), Kate Coleridge (Levett), Carl Forgione (Grovane), John Leeson (Pasco), Brian Caprion (Rafford), Stuart Fell (Dortmunn) 08 DUEL 2/20/78 written by Terry Nation directed by Douglas Camfield The Liberator is nearing an uncharted planet and is under attack by three well-armed Federation pursuit ships. As the attack depletes Liberator's energy supply, Blake decides to wait for the two ships he predicts aren't Travis's to run out of energy and then tries to ram Travis's ship. But as the Liberator prepares to rip through the pursuit ship's hull, time is frozen by the two guardians on the planet below, who pit Blake and Jenna in hand-to-hand combat to the death against Travis and a vampire-like mutoid from his crew. But as Jenna defeats the mutoid and Blake traps Travis, before the eyes of both ships' crews, Blake relents and the Liberator is released, while Travis returns to his ship in shame. Cast: Gareth Thomas (Blake), Sally Knyvette (Jenna), Paul Darrow (Avon), Jan Chappell (Cally), Michael Keating (Vila), David Jackson (Gan), Peter Tuddenham (Zen), Stephen Grief (Travis), Isla Blair (Sinofar), Patsy Smart (Giroc), Carol Royle (Mutoid) 09 PROJECT AVALON 2/27/78 written by Terry Nation directed by Michael E. Briant The Liberator arrives at an icy Federation outpost so Blake can make contact with Avalon, the rebel leader on that planet. But Avalon has been captured by Travis and duplicated with an android who returns to the Liberator after a narrow escape by Blake and his crew, who rescue "Avalon" from a high-security cell block. The android is carrying a tiny sphere with just enough of a lethal virus to kill the entire crew of the Liberator and leave the ship unaffected and, after 24 hours, habitable again. Blake returns with the android and the sphere to get the real Avalon out of danger, leaving Travis with an android that drops the sphere inside the Federation base - and Travis catches the sphere. Servalan is infuriated with Travis's performance and takes charge of the hunt for Blake personally. Cast: Gareth Thomas (Blake), Sally Knyvette (Jenna), Paul Darrow (Avon), Jan Chappell (Cally), Michael Keating (Vila), David Jackson (Gan), Peter Tuddenham (Zen), Stephen Grief (Travis), Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan), Julia Vidler (Avalon), David Bailie (Chevner), Glynis Barber (Mutoid), John Baker (Scientist), John Rolfe (Terloc), David Sterne (Guard), Mark Holmes (Guard) @~More next issue - o -