Duel

This Story: Season 1 Episode 8 (production code 1527)
B7 Overall: Episode 8
Airdate: 20 Feb 1978 (7:15 pm UK time)
Duration: 51:13
Filming Dates: 14-17 Dec 1977, 9-10 Jan & 1 Feb 1978
Written by Terry Nation
Directed by Douglas Camfield

Notes

• The only episode where Travis appears without Servalan also appearing.
• This is one of only two episodes of Blake’s 7 where nobody dies.
• The first episode where pursuit ships & Mutoids are seen, although both were mentioned in earlier episodes.
• With the exception of the ending where Blake & Travis want to kill each other still, this episode bears a resemblance to the Star Trek: TOS episode “Arena“.
• Sinofar is played by Isla Blair.  She was also in the Doctor Who episode “The King’s Demons” as Isabella.
• Blair is the real life wife of Julian Glover to whom she’s been married since 1968.  Glover himself was in Doctor Who twice – The Crusade (1965) and City of Death (1979).

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