AG Monday!
This week, series one of the British cult classic, Blake's 7!
Blake’s 7 was definitely ahead of its time. A BBC science fiction series chock full of political intrigue, interesting characters with unexpected arcs, crazy ideas, and plot twists, all wrapped up in a neat space opera package. It ran at the same time as classic Doctor Who, but it doesn’t have the same recognition as the good Doctor’s adventures. But it’s definitely worth tracking down this somewhat lost (or temporarily misplaced) series, and we’ll tell you why.
Totalitarian regimes! Feisty rebels! Mysterious alien technologies! Nasty villains! Artificial intelligences! Zap guns! It’s all here.
Ancient Geeks is a podcast about two geeks of a certain age re-visiting their youth. We were there when things like science fiction, fantasy, Tolkien, Star Trek, Star Wars, D&D, Marvel and DC comics, Doctor Who, and many, many other threads of modern geek culture were still on the fringes of culture. We were geeks before it was chic!
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In the process of listening to it, on my last day of vacation.
I recall hearing a lot about this show in Trek message boards in the 90s, but little of substance.
As to the Flash Gordon ep, Queen was very popular at the time, so I heard that soundtrack a lot back then, complete with bits of dialogue from the movie.
Q: How many Ferengi does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: The answer to that question costs ten bars of latinum.
I’m commenting without having heard it yet but.. it’s an interesting detail that Blake is framed for crimes involving children, given the Rights obsession with pedophiles behind every rock.
@Assad K: That’s a great point that we failed to address.