Blake's 7 - First Time Watching on BritBox

[DarrenTR1970]

Speaking of Terry Nation, I'm watching McGyver, and he's listed as a Producer in the credits.

I knew that Nation had nothing to do with most of the third and the entire fourth because he had moved to Los Angeles.

In the behind the scenes book, Vere Lorrimer talked about having to fly to L.A. to meet with Terry before the start of the fourth season to tell him that they were killing the cast in the last episode, and Terry reluctantly agreed to it.

I just never looked at the credits close enough to know that was a show he ended up working on.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I remember a couple of years and I saw the artwork for a new design of the Liberator that kept the shape but looked like it was built in a junkyard with bits of pipe and random bits all over the outside of it and a grungy dirty look.

 

[Marc]

Speaking of Terry Nation, I'm watching McGyver, and he's listed as a Producer in the credits.

I knew that Nation had nothing to do with most of the third and the entire fourth because he had moved to Los Angeles.

In the behind the scenes book, Vere Lorrimer talked about having to fly to L.A. to meet with Terry before the start of the fourth season to tell him that they were killing the cast in the last episode, and Terry reluctantly agreed to it.

I just never looked at the credits close enough to know that was a show he ended up working on.

So Nation still had some influence over the show despite having not working on it for several years or was it more a courtesy? (think roddenberry in the TOS movies were he had a producer credit but was largely cut from any influence in the latter movies).

I remember a couple of years and I saw the artwork for a new design of the Liberator that kept the shape but looked like it was built in a junkyard with bits of pipe and random bits all over the outside of it and a grungy dirty look.

Speaking of redesiging the Liberator I would have loved to see a design concept for the Liberator from the reimagined radio adaption with Derek Riddell as Blake.

They did one thing that the original never did - give a size to the ship and it was huge ("at least 2000m long")

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Speaking of redesiging the Liberator I would have loved to see a design concept for the Liberator from the reimagined radio adaption with Derek Riddell as Blake.

They did one thing that the original never did - give a size to the ship and it was huge ("at least 2000m long")

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/s...ncept-art-shows-creepy-version-liberator.html

That's the one I was referring to

 

[DarrenTR1970]

@Marc

In my Episode Guide and Behind the Scenes book (both written several years apart), Vere tells pretty much the same story - that he flew out as a courtesy to let Terry know that the BBC was ending the series and that he and Chris Boucher were going to kill off the cast, regardless of whether or not Gareth came back for the final episode.

According to Vere, Terry was a bit dubious about it, but Vere said that the decision had already been made. Terry shrugged and said, "Oh well, you must go and do as you see fit." So, his response was less than enthusiastic.

 

[Marc]

@Marc

In my Episode Guide and Behind the Scenes book (both written several years apart), Vere tells pretty much the same story - that he flew out as a courtesy to let Terry know that the BBC was ending the series and that he and Chris Boucher were going to kill off the cast, regardless of whether or not Gareth came back for the final episode.

According to Vere, Terry was a bit dubious about it, but Vere said that the decision had already been made. Terry shrugged and said, "Oh well, you must go and do as you see fit." So, his response was less than enthusiastic.

I’m not sure the final would have quite worked for Avon well and truly being off the deep end if there wasn’t the final encounter with Blake.

Gareth Thomas might have been doubtful for coming back but I can remember reading years ago that Jaqueline Pierce was thoroughly pissed at not being in the finale.

She”d been contracted for a certain number of episodes which had been fulfilled by the time the final rolled around.

 

[diankra]

Speaking of Terry Nation, I'm watching McGyver, and he's listed as a Producer in the credits.

I knew that Nation had nothing to do with most of the third and the entire fourth because he had moved to Los Angeles.

In the behind the scenes book, Vere Lorrimer talked about having to fly to L.A. to meet with Terry before the start of the fourth season to tell him that they were killing the cast in the last episode, and Terry reluctantly agreed to it.

I just never looked at the credits close enough to know that was a show he ended up working on.

He wrote a lot of the opening gambits for season one (the pre-credits mini episodes).

 

[Starkers]

I like to think that somewhere there's an extra final scene where Servalan comes along and picks up Orac from wherever Avon stashed him, smiles, and walks away with him.