Q 01/05

Who created Blake's 7?

A) Nigel Kneale

B) Robert Holmes

C) Terry Nation

D) Douglas Adams

Answer · why

C) Terry Nation

Terry Nation wrote all thirteen episodes of the first series himself, just three in each of the next two, and none at all of the fourth.

Q 02/05

Blake's 7's creator had earlier invented which Doctor Who monsters?

A) The Cybermen

B) The Daleks

C) The Sontarans

D) The Ice Warriors

Answer · why

B) The Daleks

The Daleks made their inventor's name in the 1960s, and he later sold the BBC a bleaker space saga that ran to 52 episodes over four series.

Q 03/05

Which actor played Roj Blake?

A) Steven Pacey

B) Gareth Thomas

C) Michael Keating

D) Paul Darrow

Answer · why

B) Gareth Thomas

Gareth Thomas played Blake for the first two series, returning as a guest for the finale, in which he asked that Blake be killed unambiguously.

Q 04/05

Blake's 7 was pitched to the BBC as which war film 'in space'?

A) The Great Escape

B) The Guns of Navarone

C) Where Eagles Dare

D) The Dirty Dozen

Answer · why

D) The Dirty Dozen

The show was sold to the BBC as 'The Dirty Dozen in space': a band of convicts and outlaws waging a guerrilla war on the Federation.

Q 05/05

What is the alien spacecraft that Blake, Jenna and Avon commandeer in the second episode?

A) Scorpio

B) Defiant

C) London

D) Liberator

Answer · why

D) Liberator

Liberator is the name Zen, the ship's computer, drew from Jenna's thoughts after the abandoned alien vessel scanned her mind.