British Sci-Fi Legend Blake's 7 Is Getting the Blu-ray Treatment It Always Deserved
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Dalek creator Terry Nation's cult classic dystopian show will get a brand new remastered release, with new VFX and behind-the-scenes documentaries.

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Blake’s 7 is one of British sci-fi’s greatest, most subversive cult classics. From the mind of Doctor Who scribe Terry Nation—after he’d sent the nation into Dalekmania in the ’60s—the 1978 show was wildly ahead of its time, with ideas as bold as its budget was threadbare. Imagine if classic Doctor Who had less money and more balls, and you get a rough approximation of what Blake’s could be at its very best. Now, at long last, the series is getting a familiarly loving home release treatment.

Today the BBC lifted the lid on a brand-new Blu-ray remaster, Blake’s 7: The Collection. Styled in the vein of the corporation’s lavish Blu-ray remasters of classic seasons of Doctor Who, the first of Blake’s four series will release later this year. Including a brand-new remastering of the series—available for the first time on Blu-ray after an infamously rough home release history on VHS and DVD decades prior—complete with all new practical model work for the show’s VFX sequences, the first volume of Blake’s 7: The Collection will include all 13 episodes from series one, as well as new interviews with surviving cast and crew, and a previously unreleased documentary planned for the show’s DVD release, The Making of Blake’s 7.

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Blake’s 7: The Collection series one releases in the UK November 11.

  • intelisense
    6·
    2 months ago

    I wish they would do a remake. The plot is one of the best Scifi stories I’ve watched, but it’s let down by really janky special effects.

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I never saw this, perhaps I was too young, but I certainly remember it because I was surprised when a friend, who had the Corgi die-cast metal ship, corrected me when I was making it fly backwards.

    I might give this a go now I’m older. I wonder if new special effects are optional because I’m sure the purists might say something about that.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I tried watching a few episodes a while back. Glorious overacting and some of the shonkiest sets and special effects ever.

    But you can’t beat a bit of Avon’s Five.