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Post by matthewsee on Feb 1, 2013 0:54:20 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 8, 2013 19:20:23 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 16, 2013 21:08:04 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 2, 2013 18:56:33 GMT -5
Just saw the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode The Avon Emeralds which had starred Roger Moore. This was originally broadcast in 1959 and it was before he started playing the Saint in 1962 and whilst Moore was playing the Saint in the season 5 finale The Gadic Collection it had guest starred Paul Darrow who would later play Avon in Blake’s 7. Blake’s 7 creator Terry Nation had written for The Saint but The Gadic Collection was not one of his episodes. From memory I am not that certain how much Nation was involved with Darrow’s casting as Avon in Blake’s 7 and it is a matter of speculation whether Nation had seen Moore in the aforementioned Alfred Hitchcock episode and whether he had remember the Avon name from this episode for him to later use as the character played by Darrow in Blake’s 7.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 9, 2013 22:49:28 GMT -5
The last time there has been a development on the long mooted Blake’s 7 remake it was reported that Microsoft had taken over the project. Microsoft has since however denied any such involvement and there is no indication if or when the project would be seeing the light of day.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 9, 2016 4:00:55 GMT -5
The antepenultimate episode of The Avengers season 4, A Sense of History in 1966 had a Robin Hood fancy dress party and guest star Jacqueline Pearce and at this party was dressed I think as Maid Marian. More than a decade after appearing in this episode, Jacqueline Pearce played the villain in Blake's 7 and Blake's 7 has been said to be like Robin Hood in space.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 13, 2016 22:45:18 GMT -5
Gareth Thomas has passed away.
Born on February 12 1945, Gareth Thomas in sci fi circles is forever remembered as rebel leader Roj Blake in Blake's 7. He later reprised Blake for Big Finish's Blake's 7 range.
Like most of the Blake's 7 cast Thomas appeared in the world of Doctor Who.
He made his Doctor Who debut in Big Finish's Storm Warning which marked the return of Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor since the TV Movie.
In Storm Warning he played Lord Tamworth.
Further Big Finish Whoniverse work saw him played Kalendorf in the Dalek Empire series.
He also played Kalendorf in Return of the Daleks, Big Finish's crossover between the main Doctor Who and Dalek Empire ranges.
He made one further Big Finish Doctor Who in Last of the Colophon playing Astaroth Morax.
Elsewhere in the Whoniverse but not for Big Finish he appeared in the Torchwood season 1 episode Ghost Machine playing Ed Morgan.
His other on-screen work included the Quatermass and the Pit movie.
Other work included The Avengers, Coronation Street, Star Maidens, Children of the Stones, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Knights of God (which I am coincidentally currently watching), The Strangerers (which also featured Blake's 7 co-star Paul Darrow), Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) remake series & M.I. High.
He died on April 13 2016 at the age of 71.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 13, 2016 9:50:57 GMT -5
The Sweeney 1.11 Big Spender guest starred Sally Knyvette and the next episode 1.12 Contact Breaker guest starred David Jackson and subsequent to these episodes both would become regulars in Blake's 7.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 22, 2016 23:56:15 GMT -5
Call Me Jacks: Jacqueline Pearce In Conversation:
Call Me Jacks - Jacqueline Pearce In Conversation is an interview with Blake's 7 legend Jacqueline Pearce by Nick Briggs.
Released by Big Finish Productions in March 2016.
While Blake's 7 is mentioned here it makes little of this conversation overall as Jacks mainly talks about life and career.
Jacks tells what her life has been like and does not shy away from using the f word here emphasizing just how bad things were for her.
Jacks does not look too fondly on her youth something I can sympathise with as I have my own bad memories of my youth.
Interesting to hear of her time filming the Jerry Lewis movie Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower The River with her saying that Lewis was an unpleasant person and what a bomb the movie became.
A very fascinating interview with Jacks as she gave a no-holds barred account of her life and career.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 2, 2016 22:41:35 GMT -5
The Actor Speaks: Gareth Thomas -Roj Blake - A Childhood Remembered: Roj Blake - A Childhood Remembered is the first segment in The Actor Speaks Volume 1: Gareth Thomas CD release.
This was released in 2000 but I got the said segment months after Thomas' death in April 2016.
Some interesting remarks from Thomas of what he thought of Blake's background and his motivations including him saying that Blake was the only one of his crew who was a non-criminal in that he was only one who got framed with the crime he was charged with. In fact the false crime that Blake was charged with was why the first episode The Way Back was not shown initially in the US and went straight instead to the second episode Space Fall. Somehow his remarks that Blake had been using his crew for his own ends felt unsettling.
Despite Blake's motivations with the use of his crew it did not however prevent his mourning of Gan when he died in Pressure Point.
A good reflection from Thomas on playing Blake.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 18, 2016 5:11:28 GMT -5
The fourth and final season of Blake’s 7 includes the episodes Traitor & Assassin. Coincidentally I recently saw or currently seeing episodes of those same titles from unrelated series. With Traitor it is an episode of Prisoner Zero and on DVD I am watching the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode called Assassin.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 19, 2016 3:14:16 GMT -5
Saw Prisoner Zero 1.23 Weapon and the previous episode is called Traitor and both Traitor & Weapon are also names of Blake’s 7 episodes and I am pretty certain that a lot of people if not all of them on the Prisoner Zero production are Blake’s 7 fans.
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 14, 2017 23:10:23 GMT -5
Warship: Warship is an audio episode of Blake’s 7 released by Big Finish in January 2013. Warship takes place from the last bit of the season 2 finale Star One and shortly afterwards. Impressive when the last scene of Star One got re-created here with Vila telling Avon that this was stupid and Avon saying when did that ever stop them. Warship is impressive in showing what else was going on during those last bits of Star One and shortly afterwards. Impressive on how we leave Blake here as it seems like the proper coda for Blake leaving Liberator for the very last time.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 27, 2018 6:54:19 GMT -5
Dempsey and Makepeace 1.4 Given to Acts of Violence guest starred Brian Croucher and Makepeace of the series title was played by Glynis Barber. This is of a curio to Blake’s 7 fans as Croucher was the second actor to play Travis while Barber played Soolin in the second and fourth seasons of Blake’s 7 respectively. While Soolin never encountered Travis, Barber had appeared in Blake’s 7 prior to playing Soolin in the season 1 episode Project Avalon where she played the principal Mutoid an episode that had Stephen Grief as Travis.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 5, 2018 2:54:28 GMT -5
Dempsey and Makepeace 1.5 Hors de Combat guest starred Stephen Greif and Makepeace of the series title was played by Glynis Barber. This is of a curio to Blake’s 7 fans as Greif was the first actor to play Travis while Barber played Soolin in the first and fourth seasons of Blake’s 7 respectively. While Soolin never encountered Travis, Barber had appeared in Blake’s 7 prior to playing Soolin in the season 1 episode Project Avalon where she played the principal Mutoid an episode that had Greif as Travis. In a further curio to this the Dempsey and Makepeace episode that preceded Hors de Combat, Given to Acts of Violence had guest starred Brian Croucher, the second actor to play Travis in the second season of Blake’s 7. Dempsey and Makepeace was not the only time that the two Travises have followed each other around outside of Blake’s 7.
Earlier Greif had guest starred in The New Avengers 1.11 Three Handed Game and Croucher guest starred in the next episode 1.12 Dirtier by the Dozen. As one can see in the order of their appearances in The New Avengers & Dempsey and Makepeace, each Travis took a turn in following the other around in consecutive episodes and in both cases it was in the series’ respective first seasons.
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