Rating: - Avon has a get rich scheme while someone wants Orac
The next thrilling vol. of Blake's 7 entitled GOLD and ORBIT
In the episode enetitled GOLD Keiller the purser of the crusie ship Space Princess contacts Avon and the crew about a deal of a life time...17 billion in gold. Avon wonders why such a ship would be shipping so much. Keiller tells him it's a simple plan. Get in, get out and become richer then the Federation itself. What Keiller forgot to mention is that the gold belongs to an old freind. Avon soon wonders why such a job as this has come out of nowhere. He smells a trap even worse he smells a trap set up by Servalan. Avon soon wonders if Keiller can be trusted and if not can he figure a way out of the trap before anyone can spring it? In the next epsidoe entitled ORBIT Famed genius and sicentist Egrorian has not been seen by anyone for years until now. He has been on work on the most powerful weapon called the tachyon funnel. This weapon is so powerful it could blow away the Federation in a matter of seconds. Egrorian has now decided to sell his weapon. His first choice to sell the weapon? Avon himself. Avon wonders why him, he has nothing to offer. Egrorian makes the terms simple one powerful weapon for one powerful computer...Orac. Now Avon must choose to use the one tool to keep him one step ahead of the Federation or aquire the one single weapon that could destroy the Federation in a mere heartbeat.
Rating: - This video has two of the four best in the Blakes 7 saga
This video show the British Star Trek at its finest. In these two episodes we see what has maade Blakes 7 a cult classic: strong writing and superior acting that rises far above the restrictions of tight budgets and notoriously cheesy sets. In Gold we have the classic "heist" plot played out aboard an interstellar liner, but what begins as a sort of Mission Impossible in Outer Space becomes an oddy moving mixture of pathos and irony. In Orbit we see Villa and Avon, the two most complex characters in the series, put into a situation which pits their peculiar drives of self perservation against each other with real suspense and superb performances; especially on the part of Paul Darrow as the complex anti-hero Avon who shows us just how far a Avon will go to survive. New viewers of Blakes 7 should be advised that these episodes are part of a single, long story, but this video can easily be enjoyed on its own. A real treat from the golden days of BBC science fiction.
- Avon has a get rich scheme while someone wants Orac