Cygnus Alpha
Joe Siegler
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Cygnus Alpha
This Story: Season 1 Episode 3 (production code 1523)
B7 Overall: Episode 3
Airdate: 16 Jan 1978 (7:15 pm UK time)
Duration: 52:00
Fiming Dates: 11/12/17 Oct & 17 Oct 1977
Written by Terry Nation
Directed by Vere Lorrimer
Notes
- The first episode for the Liberator’s computer Zen as well as the first one where the name Liberator is used.
- The first time the teleport and the handguns are used.
- Pamela Salem played Kara. She appeared in the Doctor Who stories “The Face of Evil” & “The Robots of Death“.
- Brian Blessed appears here as King Vargas. He’s been in a TON of things, but for me personally, I know him from the first series of Black Adder, Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon 1980, and King Yrcanos in the Mindwarp segment of Doctor Who’s “The Triad of a Time Lord”. The Doctor Who story had dialogue addressing how loud his character was!
Links
[ Wikipedia | Blake’s 7 Wiki | IMDB | Amazon US Blu-Ray | Amazon UK Blu-Ray ]#B7Marathon #Blakes7 Ep 3 - "Cygnus Alpha" - 16 Jan 1978 1/2 Our crew explore the Liberator ship they run across, and decide to follow the prison ship to the prison planet Cygnus Alpha to release prisoners. When they get there, they discover the planet is controlled by a religious zealot played by
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) April 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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#B7Marathon #Blakes7 Ep 3 - "Cygnus Alpha" - 16 Jan 1978 2/2 none other than the always LOUD Brian Blessed. The drama is getting out from under his thumb and escaping before Avon gets too nervous & runs off with the ship. They dispatch him in a very non Star Trek way by teleporting him into space!
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