BBC Home Video and 2|entertain release Blake’s 7: The Complete Series Four on DVD. (This title is a UK release only.) 
BBC Home Video and 2|entertain release Blake’s 7: The Complete Series Four on DVD. (This title is a UK release only.)
Big Finish Productions releases the autobiography of Blake’s 7 actor Paul Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?
Magic Bullet Productions, the makers of the Kaldor City audio series, release The Logic Of Empire, an unofficial audio drama continuation set in the world of Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7. Available on cassette tape, the story features Paul Darrow as Avon, Jacqueline Pearce as Servalan, and Peter Tuddenham as Orac; Trevor Cooper (Star Cops) is also featured.
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases the audio drama Blake’s 7: Rebel, written by Ben Aaronovitch (Doctor Who) and starring Derek Riddell (Bodies, Happy Valley), Colin Salmon (Krypton, Arrow), and Carrie Dobro (Crusade, Hypernauts). This is a complete re-imagining and reboot of Terry Nation’s series for audio; an edited version will later get an airing on BBC Radio.
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases its second Blake’s 7 audio drama, Traitor, written by Marc Platt (Doctor Who) and starring Derek Riddell (Bodies, Happy Valley), Colin Salmon (Krypton, Arrow), and Carrie Dobro (Crusade, Hypernauts). Rula Lenska guest stars. This is a complete re-imagining and reboot of Terry Nation’s series for audio; an edited version will later get an airing on BBC Radio.
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases its third Blake’s 7 audio drama, Liberator, written by James Swallow and starring Derek Riddell (Bodies, Happy Valley), Colin Salmon (Krypton, Arrow), and Carrie Dobro (Crusade, Hypernauts). This is a complete re-imagining and reboot of Terry Nation’s series for audio; an edited version will later get an airing on BBC Radio.
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases its fourth Blake’s 7 audio drama, When Vila Met Gan, written by Ben Aaronovitch (Doctor Who) and starring Michael Keating (the original series’ Vila, reprising his role).
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases its fifth Blake’s 7 audio drama, featuring stories written by James Swallow and Ben Aaronovitch (Doctor Who).
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases its sixth Blake’s 7 audio drama, featuring stories written by Marc Platt and Ben Aaronovitch (Doctor Who). Jan Chappell, the original series’ Cally, returns in a new role.
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases its seventh Blake’s 7 audio drama, featuring two stories written by Simon Guerrier. Carrie Dobro (Crusade, Hypernauts) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange, Sherlock) star.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the first box set of Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles audiobooks, featuring the story The Turing Test, performed by Paul Darrow and Michael Keating. Unlike the B7 Media releases before them, the Big Finish Blake’s 7 audio material is meant to happen within the continuity of the original television series.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the first box set of Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles audiobooks, featuring the story Solitary, performed by Michael Keating and Anthony Howell. Unlike the B7 Media releases before them, the Big Finish Blake’s 7 audio material is meant to happen within the continuity of the original television series.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the first box set of Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles audiobooks, featuring the story Counterfeit, performed by original series stars Gareth Thomas and Paul Darrwo. Unlike the B7 Media releases before them, the Big Finish Blake’s 7 audio material is meant to happen within the continuity of the original television series.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the first full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Jacqueline Pearce reprise their roles from the television series.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the second full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama, kicking off a new Blake’s 7 “season” in audio form. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Brian Croucher reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the third full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, and Sally Knyvette reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the fourth full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, and Sally Knyvette reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the fifth full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Brian Croucher reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the sixth full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Brian Croucher reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the seventh full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Brian Croucher reprise their roles from the television series’ second season. This story wraps the first audio “season” of Blake’s 7 at Big Finish.
Welsh-born actor Gareth Thomas, who starred as Roj Blake in the BBC’s influential space opera Blake’s 7 in the late 1970s, dies at the age of 71. A classical stage actor who starred in a series of cult genre series in the 1970s and 80s, including Star Maidens, Children Of The Stones, and Knights Of God, Thomas had more recently revived Blake for Big Finish’s audio revival of the series, as well as appearing in an episode of Torchwood.
Dudley Simpson, the Australian-born veteran BBC composer whose sound defined Doctor Who in the 1960s and ’70s, as well as such series as Blake’s 7, The Tomorrow People, Moonbase 3, and many others, dies at the age of 95. Simpson scored his first Doctor Who serial, the second season opener Planet Of Giants, in 1964 at a time when the series often relied on stock music. He solidified his position as Doctor Who’s house composer during the Troughton era, scoring pivotal stories such as The Evil Of The Daleks, The Ice Warriors and The War Games, and became the dominant musical sound of the series during the Pertwee and Tom Baker eras, during which he provided all but a handful of original scores and stock music fell by the wayside. It was only when incoming producer John Nathan-Turner took over as Doctor Who’s showrunner in 1980 that Simpson’s Doctor Who tenure ended. He retired to Australia in the 1990s.
Jonathan Helm’s unofficial non-fiction book Blake’s 7 Production Diary: Series A, intensively covering the creation, gestation and production of the first season of the BBC sci-fi series, is self-published.