and Blake's 7.

* Scorpio ( Blake's 7 ), the heroes ' fictional spacecraft in the final season of the TV series Blake's 7

Doctor Who alumni moved on to create their own science-fiction programmes, such as Doomwatch ( 1970 – 73 ), Survivors ( 1975 – 77 ), and Blake's 7 ( 1978 – 81 ).

* Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks in Doctor Who, and of his own shows Survivors and Blake's 7

* Slave ( Blake's 7 ), a fictional computer

* Terran Federation, a government in the science fiction TV series Blake's 7

* " The Web ", an episode from the first season of the British science-fiction series Blake's 7

The cave was also used in the filming of the British series " Blake's 7 " ( 1978 ) and " Robin of Sherwood " ( 1983 ).

* The 1999 Blake's 7 radio play The Syndeton Experiment included a character named Dr. Rossum who turned humans into robots.

In the BBC television series Blake's 7, the computer character Slave was described by Peter Tuddenham, who voiced it, as "... a Uriah Heep type of character ...."

* Kerr Avon, a character in the Blake's 7 science-fiction television series

Its contributions included material for programmes such as The Body in Question, Blue Peter and Tomorrow's World as well as sound effects for popular science fiction programmes Blake's 7 and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( in both its radio and television forms ) by Richard Yeoman-Clark and Paddy Kingsland respectively.

Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for broadcast on BBC1.

Four 13-episode series of Blake's 7 were broadcast between 1978 and 1981.

Blake's 7 was popular from its first broadcast, watched by approximately 10 million people in the UK and shown in 25 other countries.

A limited range of Blake's 7 merchandise was issued.

The BBC released music and sound effects from the series, and several companies made Blake's 7 toys and models.

Although proposals for live-action and animated remakes have not been realised, Blake's 7 has been revived with two series of official audio dramas, a comedic short film, a series of fan-made audio plays, and a proposed series of official novels.

Blake's 7 is a science fiction television series that was created by Terry Nation and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ).

The BBC had planned to conclude Blake's 7 at the end of its third series, but a further series was unexpectedly commissioned.

Blake's 7 was watched by approximately 10 million people in the UK and was broadcast in 25 other countries.

Series creator Terry Nation pitched Blake's 7 to the BBC as " The Dirty Dozen in space ", a reference to the 1967 Robert Aldrich film in which a disparate and disorganised group of convicts are sent on a suicide mission during World War II.

The theme of loyalty and trust reaches its peak during Blake and Avon's final encounter in the last episode ( Blake ), when Blake's disloyalty to his crew causes Avon and the others to mistrust him when Tarrant accuses Blake of selling them out.

A common theme in Nation's science fiction is the depiction of post-apocalyptic societies, as in several of his Doctor Who serials, for example The Daleks, Death to the Daleks and The Android Invasion and in his series Survivors, which Nation created before Blake's 7.

The sheet music of the Blake's 7 theme was published by Chappell & Co. Ltd in 1978 with a photograph of Liberator on the front cover.

Another version of the theme, ' Blake's 7 Disco ', was recorded by Federation and released in 1979 on Beeb Records with a B-side unconnected with the series.

Other elements in the score started variously as a mid-war setting of passages from Blake's Book of Thel, a theme I conceived for a set of variations and, in the case of the main theme of the finale, a transformation of the opening of the finale.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

Harold Raymond, at his publisher Chatto and Windus, said of the manuscript, “ You are the most articulate guinea pig that any scientist could hope to engage .” The title was taken from William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

This was the inspiration for William Blake's mystical hymn Jerusalem.

Despite these challenges Blake's 7 was very popular, with some episodes exceeding ten million viewers.

Blake's 7 was not expected to be recommissioned after the third series.

Although the fourth series performed satisfactorily in the ratings, Blake's 7 was not renewed for a fifth time and the final episode had an ambiguous finale.

Blake's 7s signature music was written by Australian composer Dudley Simpson, who had composed music for Doctor Who for over ten years.

Blake's 7s legacy to future television and film space opera was the use of moral ambiguity and dysfunctional main characters to create tension, and of long-term story arcs to aid cohesiveness.

In 2005 SFX surveyed readers ' top 50 British telefantasy shows of all time, and Blake's 7 was placed at number four behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Red Dwarf and Doctor Who.

Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen was inspired by Blake's 7 in naming his side-project Star One.

In 2006 the BBC produced a 30-minute documentary The Cult of ... Blake's 7 that was first broadcast on 12 December on BBC Four, as part of a Science Fiction Britannia series.

In April 2000 producer Andrew Mark Sewell announced that he had bought the rights to Blake's 7 from the estate of Terry Nation, and was planning to produce a TV movie set 20 years after the finale of the original series.

On 31 October 2005 B7 Enterprises announced it had appointed Drew Kaza as Non-Executive Chairman and that it was working on two Blake's 7 projects.

Blake's lyrics have also been set to music by other composers without reference to Parry's melody.

Blake's 7 also draws much of its inspiration from the legend of Robin Hood.

Blake's 7 also drew inspiration from the classic British dystopian novels Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

It is also nice to have each episode complete within itself, while still carrying on the saga of Blake's struggle against the 1984-ish Federation.

Blake's 7 also influenced Hyperdrive and Aeon Flux.

B7 Productions also produced series of 30-minute prequel audio episodes called Blake's 7: The Early Years, which explored the earlier histories of the central characters.

We ’ re aiming for authenticity – recreating the wonder of 1978 all over again !” The company also said it would publish a series of Blake's 7 novels at a rate of two per year.

Stevens also produced a series of audio dramas called Kaldor City, created by Chris Boucher, which link the Blake's 7 universe into Boucher's Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death through the character Carnell ( Scott Fredericks ), whom Boucher created for the Blake's 7 episode Weapon.

The lark is also ( often simultaneously ) associated with " lovers and lovers ' observance " and with " church services " ( Sylvester and Roberts 2000 ), and often those the meanings of daybreak and religious reference are combined ( in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion, into a " spiritual daybreak " ( Baine and Baine 1986 )) to signify " passage from Earth to Heaven and from Heaven to Earth " ( Stevens 2001 ).

Baker also guest starred as Bayban the Butcher in a 1980 episode of Blake's 7.

The day also saw 12 Dutch merchantmen caught by Blake's frigates after attempting to make a run for it, against Tromp's explicit orders.

The early 1980s science-fiction drama Blake's 7 used several locations ; the Russell T Davies reboot of Doctor Who has also filmed in the area ; Blake's 7 was conceived and produced by Terry Nation, who also wrote many Doctor Who scripts and created the Daleks.

The Cult of ... series also included documentaries on Blake's 7 ( a series devised by Terry Nation ), and Doomwatch, which was produced by Terence Dudley.

In the mid to late 1990s, he has also purchased the rights to Blake's 7 and attempted to produce a big-budget follow-up miniseries, Blake's 7: A Rebellion Reborn.

In 1905, Blake's bustling housekeeper Mrs Bardell ( created by William Murray Graydon, who also created Pedro the bloodhound ), turned up and remained until the end.

They were probably also influenced by the TV show Blake's 7, which featured Mutoids, reconditioned humans who had had their personalities removed.

" The website also points to the programme's influence on the British science-fiction television productions that followed, claiming that " with Quatermass Experiment began a British tradition of science fiction television which runs in various forms from Quatermass to A for Andromeda to Blake's 7, and from Doctor Who to Red Dwarf.

He also worked as a producer, overseeing the first three seasons of another popular BBC science-fiction series, Blake's 7, during the late 1970s and early 80s.