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The episode discusses the finale of Series 2 of Blake's 7, focusing on character relationships and visual effects.

Teleporting in... welcome to Federation Strike: A Journey Through Blake's 7! This is it! Series 2 of Blake's 7 comes to an end with Star One, and neither of us quite got what we were expecting from this finale. We spend a lot of time this week on the Blake and Avon relationship, which reaches a genuinely interesting moment here, and on what Jacqueline Pearce brings to Servalan when the character is under a very different kind of pressure than usual. There's also a proper look at the restored visual effects, which surprised at least one of us more than expected. After some chat about David Maloney directing the whole thing without an on-screen credit (for which nobody seems to know exactly why), and Adam making an interesting Sally Knyvette observation in this episode, we give you our scores and thoughts. Oh, and Terry Nation apparently wanted to put the Daleks in this episode, so... it's all going on! P.S. It may be the last episode of Series B of Blake's 7, but it's not the end of our second season, as we have two bonus episodes for you! Next week is our Series B wrap-up episode, where we chat about the highs, lows and everything else. The week after is an interview with visual…

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Hosts: Garry Aylott, Adam Charlton

Guest: Chris Thompson

Topics covered

• Blake and Avon relationship
• Servalan character analysis
• restored visual effects
• David Maloney direction
• Series B wrap-up
• visual effects interview

Keywords

• Blake's 7
• Star One
• Blake and Avon
• Jacqueline Pearce
• visual effects
• David Maloney
• Sally Knyvette
• Terry Nation
• Series B

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Blake's 7, Star One, Series B

More episodes of Federation Strike: A Journey Through Blake's 7

• More Models, More Magic: Catching Up with Visual Effects Wizard Chris Thompson · July 9, 2026 · 57 min
• From Redemption to Star One: Our Series B Wrap-Up · July 1, 2026 · 1h 32m
• B12: The Keeper: More Wine, Gola. More Wine · June 17, 2026 · 1h 14m

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