Life Aboard... The System Deep Space Vehicle - The Liberator

Life Aboard... The System Deep Space Vehicle - The Liberator | Spaceship Breakdown

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Join us as we look into what life would be like aboard the guerrilla warrior's dream ship, The Liberator!
In a future where humanity has spread itself amongst the stars, only to be dominated by an oppressive and frankly psychotic Terran Federation, it doesn’t take a hero to see the need to escape t o the stars. For the majority of the population not dosed with an array of sedatives and designer drugs designed to make you more compliant, a trip off world will likely mean a trip on board a Federation starship to some outer colony to mine raw materials, if you live long enough to get there anyway.
But deep in the void, another force grows in strength and curiosity. The computer-enthralled subjects of The System, and their fleet of highly advanced spaceships. One such craft was known as Deep Space Vehicle 2, a ship alien in concept, and even more alien in design. Ownership of such a vessel may just have the influence and power to turn the tide against humanity’s oppressors.. but what would it be like to live there?
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All clips taken from Blake's 7 (plus some Star Trek TNG).
For all things Blake's 7, get yourself over to Horizon, the official Blake's 7 fan club right ruddy here: www.blakes7online.com
Likewise, order yourself a technical manual here: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/dianeb7
Written, presented and hosted by Adam Tyler
Music from Epidemic Sound, Production Crate et al.
tomgon3d (Wireframe 3D animation) - tomgon.de
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Life Aboard is a series dedicated to examining what it would be like to live, work and serve aboard some of science fiction's most notorious spaceships. Forget the laser cannons, the made up technobabble and let's ask ourselves what the important questions are - how's breakfast, and where do I sleep?

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@leegriffin1584 Жыл бұрын

I love the way the flight deck is pretty much the Millennium Falcon! Of all the deaths in B7, the end of The Liberator hurt the most.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

“She’s starting to break up..” I deliberately left out the narration of The Liberator’s death.. it’s heartbreaking!

@stevekitt52 Жыл бұрын

I felt the same sadness when the Liberator ended as when the Enterprise met it's fate in ST3.

@GnrMilligan Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame Zen saying " I've failed you" as he dies was the really tragic part of Liberators death. I suspect it had something to do with the show's death too!

@GnrMilligan Жыл бұрын

And at 5.06 in the bottom left corner there's a what I assume to be a table and chair, that looks suspiciously like The Enterprise.

@leepshin Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgameZen and the Liberator were one of a kind as was Orac. I was never able to accept Scorpio and Slave. To me they were poor substitutes for a far far superior space vehicle and computer. If there's ever to be a reboot, the Liberators flight deck and teleport area "MUST" be rebuilt exactly as they appeared all those years ago as the designs are like a certain "black Trans-Am".......timeless. Zen's visual interface is also a complete work of art. The BBC designers really outdid themselves when they created the Liberator.

@noakj006 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been watching Blake’s 7 for the first time recently and any sci-fi fans out there should watch it!

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@Problembeing Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard. Glad you're loving Blake's 7. Who are your favourite characters? 😊

@derekmcmanus8615 Жыл бұрын

Weak special effects but superb acting and storytelling

@dogwalker666 Жыл бұрын

Loved it since I was a kid, Love the big finish audio drama too,

@Problembeing Жыл бұрын

@@dogwalker666 The last one with Paul Darrow in it made me well up.

@mrtrek2117 11 ай бұрын

Nothing quite like those old BBC effects. Loved the teleporter!

@captainsensiblejr. Жыл бұрын

It was always a joy to see what Servalan was wearing from one episode to another.

@RX552VBK 2 ай бұрын

Lordy, she was a sexy and evil woman!

@captainsensiblejr. Жыл бұрын

The Liberator crew zeitgeist was set at Paranoia level 9. Not until Farscape was there a cast of characters who thoroughly mistrusted each other, and so frequently had their own agendas.

@RX552VBK 2 ай бұрын

Agreed. Farscape can be B7's spiritual successor.

@gordiebrooks Жыл бұрын

The worse thing they ever did in Blake’s 7 was to destroy the Liberator !!

@Emdee5632 Жыл бұрын

AND remove Blake and replace crew members after season 2.

@lightworker5456 11 ай бұрын

I totally agree. It's the best ship ever, in any Sci-fi show.

@Chuckf66 5 ай бұрын

Zen's "I...have failed...you...." was heartbreaking.

@patdbean 4 ай бұрын

@@Emdee5632but the actor wanted to leave. So unless you recast, like they did with Travis.

@stevegordon5689 3 ай бұрын

Then that blatant effort to make the new ship look like the millennium falcon!

@sevenodonata Жыл бұрын

As a young child I always felt the Liberator was flying around "backwards" 😂

@anticat900 Жыл бұрын

Despite its set failings, this is my favourite sci fi show ever, before this everything was lovely and nice, but with this federation it was bent, corrupt and controlling - so something to fight against - which they did in the best spaceship ever designed 🙂

@jamespeters2859 Жыл бұрын

I always liked the sound Orac makes when they turn him off. Brilliant show. Grew up to this classic.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

It always sounds so disappointed!

@simonjones7727 Жыл бұрын

Like the little moue of displeasure Kenneth Williams might utter before saying "Stop Messing About"

@jamespeters2859 Жыл бұрын

@@simonjones7727 Wow, what a beautiful observation. Yes exactly like that. 👌🏻💚🥰

@Eltonlaleham 11 ай бұрын

I enjoyed Blake,s Seven in trillions of ways, and having a regular arch-enemy and regular arch-villain in the form of a woman called Servalan was awesome.

@RX552VBK Жыл бұрын

Blake's 7 is one of my all time favorite British SF shows (next to Space:1999 and UFO). It wasn't the technical BG design or EFX that did it for me--it was the wonderful performances and characterizations created by the legendary Terry Nation. I became a HUGE fan years after it's original premiere on UK TV; it cameto American TV in the late 80's--I first saw on ch. 13 PBS in NYC in '89 (alsowith another Nation favorite of mine Star Cops). It reminded so much of my first Doc Who episodes with Tom Baker--I fell for the characters and the premise immediately. Thank you for making this look at one of the coolest, most powerful space ship in the annals of SF tv (I'd pit "Libby" against the Enterprise-D anytime). Great job, mate!

@larrytinsley4247 7 ай бұрын

I just finished it man that ending got me right in the feels im waffling between it was a great tragic end to a great story or wa it mishandled by the producer they replaced Terry with please reply I need closure if its a great ending I gotta find some way to accept it like the Iliad and if not I can write a different end to it in my head

@andrewhickton3189 2 ай бұрын

Try reading Paul Darrow autobiography "your him aren't you" he pointed out, that Avon isn't seen getting killed at the end. He even tried to get a sequel made.

@RX552VBK 2 ай бұрын

@@andrewhickton3189 I will check out Mr. Darrow's bio. It would've been spectacular if he'd gotten a sequel series off the ground!

@user-xt9kl1vm3z 25 күн бұрын

Cally❤

@RobbieR-x6c 8 күн бұрын

The Liberator was one of the best, most original space ship designs ever!!

@psammiad Жыл бұрын

Zen being able to read "brainwave scans" is a great idea that's never really used. There's so much potential to the setting that was never really explored.

@neilthomas6042 Жыл бұрын

I grew up watching Blake’s 7 but later on fell out of love with the series. I kept on hearing how good the show was and I went to watch it again. It was a good show. Now in my top ten best TV show of all time. The effects weren’t much cop with a low budget but you looked beyond that; it’s the same with the original Doctor Who. Another great series starring Gareth Thomas was Children of the Stones, really creepy despite being a kids show.

@Phoenix2312 Жыл бұрын

BLOODY HELL! I sort of recall Children of the Stones! It amazing how many Shows have been made on Low Budgets that actually hold up and stand the test of time... I feel its down to great Story... The effects can be poor as long a the story is engaging! One I recall was an old Aussie Children's TV Show called "Under The Mountain" - Based on a Novel... Its effects were honestly Not that bad given its low production value... And it had a real creepy vibe too!

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

Happy Day, Neil Thomas. Happy Day.

@gamerhoagy5998 Жыл бұрын

Also, Star Maidens, along with Judy Geeson.

@wbbartlett Жыл бұрын

Full series; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/id2EY9p907qbgpc.html The music freaked me out as a kid.

@Phoenix2312 Жыл бұрын

@@wbbartlett Just took a quick look... Woah! That Music... And another Nostalgic Piece to enjoy! Not a series I have ever seen but one I have heard of... I look forward to watching it!

@Number6_ Жыл бұрын

Those sofas in command looked very confortable. And seats amost every where were built for comfort.

@garethmurtagh2814 Жыл бұрын

The seats at the consoles were basically bike seats with high backs, the cast hated them as they were so uncomfortable

@brentanllewellyn3898 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant show. Grew up with it & just watched again. Still holds up I reckon.

@daviniarobbins9298 Жыл бұрын

Blake's 7. To sum it up it is basically Robin Hood in space. At least for the first half of the 52 episode run.

@Wulfyr 18 күн бұрын

Robin Hood meets 1984 in space.

@simonjones7727 Жыл бұрын

Almost everything about the Liberator is naff, and yet somehow I cannot imagine anything I would rather zip around the galaxy in. I think it is among the most "domestic" of space vehicles somehow and its aesthetic, which is perhaps most akin to the top floor coffee shop in a mid 70s provincial department store in the UK, is somehow oddly appealing (even if I do get an odd urge to go shopping for loose covers after watching some B7 episodes!)

@wbbartlett Жыл бұрын

The Deep Space Vehicle "British Home Stores"

@andrewbennett7756 Жыл бұрын

Blakes 7great bring back memories ❤❤❤❤

@gamerhoagy5998 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that, when Blake gives his gun to Jenna so that she's holding two.

@DoremiFasolatido1979 Жыл бұрын

Computers would be cold, alien oppressors, lifeless and cruel. What would that be like? Let's have them behave EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS EVERY HUMAN EVER!

@Aileil 9 ай бұрын

This is a fantastic description of the Liberator's capabilities and equipment. I particularly enjoyed your contextualizing it's original purpose vs. the use to which we general see it being put.

@patdbean Жыл бұрын

11:36 like modern fly by wire systems in fighter aurcraft today.

@octaviusfooks7194 Жыл бұрын

Surely Liberator’s top speed is Standard by 20

@susanyoung6579 4 ай бұрын

Not to mention its time distort capabilities.

@peterharrington8709 Жыл бұрын

Tbh I had no understanding of any of this "System" stuff, or how Orac and Zen worked when I watched this as a kid. I thought it was just sci fi Robin Hood. Terry Nation had one hell of an imagination.

@BaseDeltaZero1972 Жыл бұрын

As a child of the 70's, I never got into this - Dr Who, Space 1999 and the like were more my scene. My older cousin however absolutely loved it. Everything I know and hear about this series tells me it was aimed at an older more sophisticated viewer than the average 7 or 8 year old of the time - I can understand why it is so respected among certain age groups. It must have felt like somebody was taking Sci-Fi seriously and that it wasn't just for kids.

@glyndaley5844 Жыл бұрын

The irony wes AVON was non stop trying to get the Liberator when BLAKE was in charge then by season 3 he got his wish then flys her into a red acid cloud in search of BLAKE with Catastrophic consequences.

@derekmcmanus8615 Жыл бұрын

Ship happens apparently...

@Laszlo34 Жыл бұрын

Yay!! One of the most awesome and forgotten series!! Okay...to be fair, I really didn't like the ending, but then I can't think of a better one (b'cuz I'm not smart), so I won't go cutting up the show for it. I'd gladly watch the whole thing again!!

@legor2sw906 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for a great video. B7 is one of my all time favourite shows. Looking forward to watching more of your content ❤

@user-je5do6jn2f 16 күн бұрын

You're awesome for reviewing Blake's 7.

@Chuckf66 5 ай бұрын

Memories of watching this late at night on the ABC here in Australia on a black & white TV. The shock of the final episode rocked my young mind!

@misterangel8486 Жыл бұрын

You deserve a lot bigger audience for these very entertaining videos😎👌

@tashvadj4914 Жыл бұрын

All hail The Liberator!

@Allegheny500 Жыл бұрын

I watched this series, twice, and I only just noticed the screen using Star Trek deltas to mark the federation ships. A dig at the American series that proceeded it no doubt.

@Markotron Жыл бұрын

I remember working on the DVDs of B7. Happy memories.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

What a great job!

@macsnafu Жыл бұрын

This was a great idea for a video. Thanks!

@lukeriely4468 10 ай бұрын

Great sci-fi show. ❤

@goodfodder Жыл бұрын

Was a great series, suprised it has not been turned into a big budget film

@thefonzkiss Жыл бұрын

That image ratio failed CRT tv screen looks so odd.

@pzuliomaccavellion9711 Жыл бұрын

My friend has two daughters, named Dayna and Calley! And Blake's 7 was awesomeness on a Dr Who budget! Avon was my fav!

@gorillaau Жыл бұрын

I met a younger girl who was names Nyssa, (from Doctor Who) by her parents. She wasn't impressed when she figured it out. Also a software engineer who nickname of Romana was so widespread that she officially changed her real name to match it.

@pzuliomaccavellion9711 Жыл бұрын

@@gorillaau my daughters name is Leela! Named after Leela of the Seva team, from Dr Who! Hahaha. True story, and she's fine with it!

@gorillaau Жыл бұрын

@@pzuliomaccavellion9711 That's awesome. I guess it depends on the individual. As a teenager, I loved that Doctor Who story. It gave plenty to think about afterwards.

@CharlesMarlow1898 Жыл бұрын

If I had to pick my favouite sf tv series at this moment it'd be Blakes 7. It's amazing. Thanks for covering it. Space Out, have you watched The Starlost. It gets terribly panned on thee internets but I think it's quite amazing and there's tonnes of later sf media that've borrowed from it. Oh, I've two Corgi Liberators!

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

I gotta say.. having recently watched it all, I have to agree. You don’t get the same sort of interplay between characters anywhere else! Not heard of Starlost? Will take a look! Always love to see what inspired later creators

@CharlesMarlow1898 Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame It's 'The Starlost' it might be on YT? I've got it on DVD.

@GavTatu Жыл бұрын

i binge watched this for covid.... great stuff, loved it as a kid.

@Ginger_Dalek Жыл бұрын

Great video, loved the (affectionate) humour! The only thing missing was the saddest moment in the entire 4 series, Zen dying.

@CyraNoavek Жыл бұрын

Nicely done.

@Inignot12 Жыл бұрын

Hahaha the fashion montage is perfect

@kroon275 Жыл бұрын

Great show. Watched as a 10yr old bk when it 1st aired. The UKs Star Trek

@vincentcarly5856 Жыл бұрын

Loved Blakes Seven wheni was a kid, love to see a movie with modern effects etc !! :0)

@stehpengray2084 Жыл бұрын

Loved the show loved the Actors grew up watching the show. Of course it was made at the time on a shoestring. What do you expect it was the BBC biguideers no money spent on practical effects but it was of its time still really enjoy It even some of the way out scripts . I had the great pleasure in meeting some of the actors several times even though I stayed up in Aberdeen Scotland like the Arthur who played Avon He was my favourite of course. Ruby nice actor in persand others very generous was his time when he met fansuddenly. Couldn't have been easy Living such a well known face for so many years. My sympathies go out to his family and friends I would just like to say really nice man Face-to-face. Thank you for all the hard work you put in to make this video much appreciated . Keep on doing the good work. Thank you.!!!!

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome! The low budget just adds to the charm - although it never stopped them telling great stories! It must have been fantastic meeting the actors - sadly I got to this show far too late!

@user-je5do6jn2f 16 күн бұрын

I remember watching this on WTVS Detroit PBS as a kid!

@Tigermoto Жыл бұрын

You've only gone and done it. It was a very long way at Standard by two, but so far it looks to have been a lot of work. Many thanks for this. Blakes 7 was something i watched with my dad as a kid and I loved it! So much so i still have it.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

This was a mammoth task - and the first one I had to start from scratch with (I think I only knew the ending!). Hope it does the show justice for you! I absolutely loved watching it all!

@Tigermoto Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame Finished it now, and i think you hit the nail on the head, fast, powerful, incredibly advanced, not too overpowered that you can forget strategic planning, and when it comes right down to it... Not yours, nor designed to make you comfortable.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

@@Tigermoto Excellent! I do wish there was more of a focus on the alien nature of the ship - I suspect if it were ever to be remade, the mystery of the original owners would be played on a lot more

@akakjb Жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT! Didn't see how long it was before I started playing but once I got into it, I didn't care1 Nlow there's some high praise for a video. Looks like everyone else noticed that the flight deck was the Millennium Falcon and I loved the "it is green" clip from Next Gen. Brilliant work all round! I pitched a Series 5 to Terry Nation, not long after the end of Series 4 (that he encouraged me to submit to BBC) and it would have included a new Liberator-style ship. Those plots keep bouncing around in my head. With the way AI animation is going, maybe I can find somewhere that I can just input my scripts & plots and have it give back something to watch! LOL

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

Oh that’s awesome!! I’d absolutely love to read some of those pitches - bet you could definitely get some storyboards made at the very least!

@Grottenolm Жыл бұрын

LoL. I had this Ship as a Die-Cast -Model. I never knew it was from a TV-series and it doesn't fly in the direction i guessed back then.

@user-zy1vv9yb6g Ай бұрын

I like the Props and set designs 😁👍👍👍👍

@Nellyontheland Жыл бұрын

With reference to the I.T. Crowd... ...ORAC is the Internet.

@susanyoung6579 4 ай бұрын

Nevermind the backdoor built into every CPU...

@GnrMilligan Жыл бұрын

It appears that Villa has somehow got hold of an extremely old 1977 Fidelity Electronics Chess Challenger game. That must be worth a lot by then!

@simonjones7727 Жыл бұрын

That is one of the things about B7, there seem to be moments where the set designers just gave up completely. Servalan's office has its Joe Columbo chair (more Century 21 loan items, I suspect, this time S1999) but a high end office telephone that is contemporary with the production itself. Like most British Sci Fi there is a lot of clipboard work too. We have to imagine a future where crossing the galaxy is not much of problem but where the telephone stopped its evolution at some point in 1978.

@GnrMilligan Жыл бұрын

@@simonjones7727 I can't remember the name of the episode, but there was one with a chap who was with a girl who had been his slave, but he had freed her. But she still behaved subordinate to him. I remember a scene where there was a desk lamp. And it was one of the props from either UFO of Space 1999.

@simonjones7727 Жыл бұрын

@@GnrMilligan As far as I know it was quite lucrative for Century 21 to get full value out of the props to rent them out in this way. ITC was very canny in general. I love watching things like "Strange Report" because the same items pop up in different settings week after week (and across the different ITC serials). The poor people who made them would never have anticipated DVD and Streaming and the obsessive nature of future fans, not yet born, when the original transmissions occurred, who love spotting these things!

@seano4977 5 ай бұрын

Great music at the beginning. I used to have this LP. Geoff Loves Intergalactic Disco Sounds

@spacedoutgame 5 ай бұрын

One of the best!

@grandslapper 11 ай бұрын

I always assumed that carapace at the back was a fusion reactor, and the intakes towards the front were intakes for hydrogen atoms - near light speed, you'd get a lot of those. That's how I assumed the Liberator was powered.

@fuzzlemacfuzz Жыл бұрын

My mum had the disco version of the theme music on vinyl.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

It’s a banger!

@Problembeing Жыл бұрын

I did a remix myself. Plan to use it for a Blake's 7 podcast 😁

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

@@Problembeing Awesome! Let me know when you get started - I’d love to hear it 😁

@Problembeing Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame It was used before for my friends over at The Spacebook :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNB-od2U0q6thH0.html

@anticat900 Жыл бұрын

I believe some of the early images and model work was done externally from the BBC, these show directional lighting, shadows and smoother movement (like space 1999). The BBC however took the model work in-house and a noticeable drop in quality can be seen. Ie the use of video, zooming in and out and bland overly white spaceships.

@DoctorSinister1 4 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you.

@spacedoutgame 4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@cptreech Жыл бұрын

Fantastic, right back to my childhood and one of the sources of my love for SciFi. Life aboard: Scorpio next?

@simonjones7727 Жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable video. Everything really hinges on Se2Ep1 to help explain who the The System are and why they might have built DSV2 but it still does not make much sense. Nothing about The System suggest that they would want to dress up to engage with other civilisations, especially as (based on the clothes themselves) those civilisations might include those who worship Alvin Stardust and Carol Chell from Playschool. I do quite enjoy B7 fashion, if I am honest. The future? well, its tabards basically, all the way (so we have that to look forward to, unless you a hospital radiographer in which case, I guess, you are already halfway there, even if your ones happen to be lead lined). As for The Liberator the script hints at a concept that the design cannot effectively realise; it is biomorphic, its controls meld in some way with the crew, it is like a living organism. Unfortunately what you see on screen is mostly Fablon and repurposed Anglepoise lamps (as the "flight controls") so I don't think that ever really comes across. Zen looks like the light show in one of those late 70s provincial discotheques that had names like "Napoleon's" or "Le Jardin". Somehow, despite it all, B7 is a joy and it all takes place somehow much more in the viewers head than on screen. Among the best SF performances and script ever.

@chessoc7799 Жыл бұрын

Ahh the Jeff love version of the theme ( I think ) was off one of my first albums bought a long time ago :)

@olsmokey 5 ай бұрын

Does anyone out there recall the last episode of Blake's Seven? I could visualise the writers meeting before writing the last episode. A bunch of drunk suits sitting around a table discussing how to end the series and entire storyline. "Oh I know" says someone at the end of the table. " Why don't we have a shootout and kill off all the main characters?" "Sounds good" says another suit. "Do we all agree?" And they did. Bang bang zap kapowie. All main characters dead. No More Blake's Seven. Oh well. It was good while it lasted.

@ptonpc Жыл бұрын

Watched it as a kid, it was always the talk of the playground the ned day.

@Buster_Piles Жыл бұрын

No space toilets on the liberator though. The crew had to resort to teleporting their poo straight into the nearest federation outpost in a sort of futuristic, space dirty protest. Blakes seven? More like Blakes number two.

@simonjones7727 Жыл бұрын

"Down and safe"

@Buster_Piles Жыл бұрын

@simonjones7727 🤗 glad someone has a similar sense of humour.

@RedShift323 Жыл бұрын

Blake 7 is a little before my time and this is the first time I've ever seen anything of it. But it sounds like a really interesting setting for a grand strategy game like "Star Wars: Empire at War".

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

One ship, zipping around the galaxy, fighting guerrilla style and building an army of rebels? Sounds amazing! I had real Mass Effect vibes, personally - there’s a lot of fantastic interplay between characters throughout the show

@TheRetroShed 2 ай бұрын

B7 was just not the same after the end of series 3. Blowing up DSV Liberator was quite hard hitting as an 8 year old watching it! Season 4 was kinda ok but wasn’t the same.

@andrewhickton3189 2 ай бұрын

I will always feel sorry for Paul Darrow. He so wanted to make a sequel, especially as Avons fate was left open in the last episode (you didn't see him die).

@AlexanderDunn-cj5me 6 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you you have filled in the blanks. I always thought Iain M Banks used the liberator and its pylons pods & deep space zones at the bases for his ROU design

@brendanstoran7555 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t fancy flying to the local shops in that ship! I remember the walls shook when someone walked past,,, only god knows how she’d hold up to take off and landing, or warp speed 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

@deanedge5988 2 ай бұрын

Delicious - Thanks

@highwindsclarke2685 2 ай бұрын

The system space station was located in the 12th sector astro .781 Star One was located at Grid Reference 317 320 in the 11th sector. Harriet Philpin played Alta 2. She also played a character called Bettan in the Doctor Who story Genesis of the Daleks.

@simonjones7727 Жыл бұрын

Those set elements from the Gerry Anderson's UFO Moonbase (11:58) that Century 21 loaned out to so many productions over the years.I'd never spotted them in the Liberator before.

@superdoctor14 Жыл бұрын

Thebest ship un science fiction. Thumbs up for a reboot in this time of Doctor who Star trek and Babylon 5 potentially coming back

@davivignola5895 Жыл бұрын

I just binged your entire catalog of videos... thank you for the Liberator, it was a bit of a blast from the past, and truly, enjoyed it! ((btw, do you have other ideas you're going to pursue? I was wondering about the Rocicante or the TARDIS))

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Davi, that’s awesome! I have a bit of a list growing.. and the good news is they’re both on there! Open to further suggestions - the weirder, the better!

@davivignola5895 Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame alright! Oh, just thought of another old, old classic... Space: 1999. How much of a hellhole was Moonbase Alpha, I have to wonder.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

@@davivignola5895 oh, I can already hear the funky funky beats of Moonbase Alpha

@davivignola5895 Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame I love that song. That, and the sets/Eagles, were what really sold me on the show.

@weldonwin Жыл бұрын

@@davivignola5895 The Eagles were cool, as one of the first examples I can think of, of a Nasa-Punk ship design in sci-fi

@ironwarmonger Жыл бұрын

If you look at Blake's 7, you can see that Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda was based on it. Each of the main character at the start if each show had a 1 to 1 correlation, even Zen. Granted Lexa Doga made a much more attractive Zen 🙂

@tommytwotacos8106 6 күн бұрын

I'm a 60's sci-fi dude, albeit an American one. I've had the pleasure to peruse and consume extensive libraries of foreign content, though I've primarily stayed in English speaking (sometimes Japanese with subs) content, I've never bothered engaging in a complete runthrough of "Blake's 7" before. Perhaps it's time to fix that oversight. Thanks for the content.

@spacedoutgame 4 күн бұрын

Seriously. You won’t regret it. Like Doctor Who’s cynical, sarcastic Uncle

@tommytwotacos8106 3 күн бұрын

@@spacedoutgame that sounds positively lovely. Particularly when something is intellectually stimulating while displaying strange qualities approaching that "uncanny valley" where my brain starts picking up on something about the show that's making the experience feel surreal and even dangerous, is when I find myself hooked on these old speculative scifi programs. This looks like a perfect candidate for that kind of experience.

@captainsensiblejr. Жыл бұрын

Villa and Avon were a great team, Avon completely disdainful of Villa, and 41:33 Villa veering wildly between passive aggressive snark and unremitting terror of Avon. With both having mastery of one liners.

@captainsensiblejr. Жыл бұрын

Watching Paul Darrow acting as Avon was like watching a venomous snake preparing to strike.

@TheRaptor1967 Жыл бұрын

I watched this when it first come out. Funny how most ships of that time period and made on the cheap look really dated and unrealistic now. However the Liberator still looks good. Not so much the "Not so special" effects, or the acting, but the story line in general still holds up. I loved this as a youngster and added it to my TV Series collection. I have watched it about every 10 years since and have enjoyed it every time.

@newtronix Жыл бұрын

The acting was great what are you on about!

@Belzediel Жыл бұрын

Ah. Sorry, Liberator has many more than one deck. What you've done there is assume the deck plans from the fanzine were both canon and complete. Liberator has room for 86 decks, assuming three meters per deck. Twice that if you consider the central spire to be living space right down to the stellar core. She's BIG big, 700,000 m2. Ish. Not including the hangar spaces. Oh, the the painsticks the System use are not the same thing as a Doomwand. Different prop. You even show a System Drone using a painstick whilst also wearing a doomwand.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

Totally happy to be corrected - it did seem odd. Would love some sources if you have any!

@Problembeing Жыл бұрын

True fan boy 🙌

@Problembeing Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgamedo a follow up if you get those 😊

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

@@Problembeing absolutely!

@Problembeing Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame Confirmed!

@darthwiizius Жыл бұрын

The Liberator is one of the best ship designs in sci-fi, I remember as a nipper collecting all the random Lego blocks I could find from local jumble sales just to spend a few days building my own me size Liberator. it was epic BTW. As it goes I'd argue the 2 shows most influenced by Blake's 7 are Babylon 5 and Farscape.

@ratspike8017 Жыл бұрын

Apparently, Firefly was Joss Whedon's take on B7. If you think about the characters in Firefly, they are all criminals of some kind, running from a galactic federation, lead by a captain with a political reason to rebel...

@darthwiizius Жыл бұрын

@@ratspike8017 I never saw Firefly so I couldn't say, people do say it's good though and there are some rumblings about it coming back.

@user-je5do6jn2f 16 күн бұрын

The B7 was cool.

@Emdee5632 Жыл бұрын

What I always loved the most about B7 was the often somewhat negative, desperate atmosphere. The Federation is not like the federation in Star Trek. In fact if the future of mankind will keep being desperately searching for resources but now in space, the B7 federation is far more likely to happen than the ST one. Maybe it also looked more realistic to me because of the low budget. Not all this fancy American stuff. Of course special effects in the 1970s and early 1980s were not as good as they are now. In fact in B7 they were often quite bad 😅 but I still loved the show. Oohh and of course Servalan, the pursuit ships and those black uniforms (although the Federation infantry blasters weren't much).

@anticat900 Жыл бұрын

I found it odd how they so often crossed Servalan or their friends or sisters etc. You'd think the galaxy being so big and all this would be a rare occurrence?

@Emdee5632 Жыл бұрын

@@anticat900 Don't forget Servalan is a Federation agent, and the Federation has been hunting them since the day they escaped from the prison ship London. Servalan's ''friends and sisters'' are Federation agents and soldiers (and mutoids). Some of the people Blake and his crew met were neutral. Too bad they often had to pay with their lifes if they helped Blake.

@gorillaau Жыл бұрын

B7 is a dystopian version of Star Trek. The Terran Fedation's main goal was the kill Blake. I loved the increasingly bleak, underdog premise and especially the finale scene. What a way to go out, no spoilers from me though.

@anticat900 Жыл бұрын

@@gorillaau definitely

@susanyoung6579 4 ай бұрын

The B7 universe was brilliant exactly because it was historically accurate. It portrayed the cycles of expansion and collapse that human civilizations undergo. Not to mention the seriously cynical view towards governments and the tyrannical rulers that end up controlling them. Real life consists of multiple shades of gray and B7 accurately reflects that.

@Oi.... Жыл бұрын

A guy I met in the late 80s had one of the Helmets, he was working on special effects for the BBC. He wouldn't sell it to Me, he said there were only about 30 or so made.

@user-je5do6jn2f 16 күн бұрын

Fight the System!

@NoFormalTraining Жыл бұрын

And like all good sci fi spaceships, we never see any sign of there being any toilets!

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

This is a real thing! I just assume everyone uses the three seashells at this point

@glyndaley5844 Жыл бұрын

There nxt to the swimming pool 😅

@monopalle5768 Жыл бұрын

They did one like this in the US back in the day. Star something....

@gustinian 4 ай бұрын

Here's hoping that AI will soon be able to turn this old footage into a fresh VR game so we can experience it first hand, as it were. When it is on form, the concepts and story telling are unsurpassed even today, some of it has practically come true (Orac for example). I set up a 3D VR rendering of the Liberators flight deck from several angles and it was like being there, all it needed was Avon and the crew to teleport on board...

@spacedoutgame 4 ай бұрын

Oh, I love that! Is it available anywhere? The deck plans are wishful thinking at best, so the rest of the ship will need some creative input.. but if they made a walkthrough of the Orville then anything’s possible!

@user-je5do6jn2f 16 күн бұрын

THX-1138 In Space!

@Phoenix2312 Жыл бұрын

OK! I am going great guns here and going to make a request... And Yes I am Subscribing TOO! A Childish one... But fun none the less! As someone mentioned the late Gerry Anderson, Why Not? His back catalogue has many fascinating Ships from the Thunderbirds to... TERRAHAWKS! I wonder if you can guess which I want to see a breakdown of??? LOL!

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

Oh blimey! Alright, it’s on the list! Thanks for subscribing, and welcome aboard! 😁

@Phoenix2312 Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame Ahhhh! Wonderful! I have actually been enjoying revisiting Blakes 7 this last few weeks... Won a Gift Voucher at work and bought the boxed set, alongside Terrahawks... A Childhood Fave!

@BaronVonHaggis Жыл бұрын

I love how everyone in the future is so frightfully well spoken.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

Say what you like about the evil Federation, they knew how to teach enunciation!

@mfblock Жыл бұрын

The show is the basis of my knowledge of English.

@fuzzblightyear145 3 ай бұрын

Not so sure I would agree with the Liberator being quite so all-powerful and invulnerable. Strong, yes. But it quite often took a beating from several pursuit ships at once. I thought it actually good that they could get hurt/run out of power, added the sense of danger and the fact their standard course of action was usually to run

@digipeeper Жыл бұрын

If the series wasn’t cancelled, the System should have returned as a antagonist next to the Federation and it would have been excellent drama.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

100%. They set up a great villain in The System and didn’t scratch the surface with them.. see also the intergalactic aliens!

@digipeeper Жыл бұрын

@@spacedoutgame The concept of the ultimate weapon belongs the ultimate enemy is very popular in sci-fi fantasy. The Andromedans could be a possible reexamination of adventures but it’s sort of self explanatory that they lost and couldn’t put up a fight. If you had listen the Big Finish audio drama Restoration. It reveals the fate of the System and it would make the Liberator seven times more rare and valuable. For 48 minutes, you covered close to 3 series of Blake’s 7 and it is as entertaining as the series itself. I know it’s obvious, hope you can do one for Scorpio!!! Keep up the excellent work.

@spacedoutgame Жыл бұрын

@@digipeeper Perhaps it is a bit overused these days, it’s basically the trope that launched every series of Stargate et al. Definitely need to look up the audio dramas soon! There’s a lot less to say about the Scorpio, but I haven’t discounted it just yet! It’s certainly a gorgeous model!