The BEST episodes of Blake's 7 season 3

Every episode of Blake's 7 season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Blake's 7 season 3!

Seven very different individuals with one common connection: they are all escaped prisoners sentenced to live out the rest of their lives on Cygnus Alpha, a barren and sparsely populated prison planet far from Earth, by a corrupt totalitarian government known as the Terran Federation. Blake, a former resistance leader who had his memories suppressed by the Federation, must now try to hold together his assorted crew of criminals and others. They have control over a very powerful, but mysterious spaceship they call the Liberator. Together they try to bring down the corrupt and tyrannical Federation.

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Aftermath
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8.03
151 votes

#1 - Aftermath

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1980

Severely damaged by combat in the Galactic War, the Liberator disperses its crew while it repairs itself. Avon lands on a planet and is rescued by the daughter of a former revolutionary. Priceless scenes between Avon and Servalan.

Directors: Vere Lorrimer
Writer: Terry Nation
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Death-Watch
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7.86
141 votes

#2 - Death-Watch

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/1980

The crew visits the Teal and Vandor systems, currently at war with each other. A representative of each system is chosen for a battle. Tarrant kills the warrior who killed his brother.

Directors: Gerald Blake
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Sarcophagus
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7.79
143 votes

#3 - Sarcophagus

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/1980

The crew find a drifting ship, whose artifacts have a strange effect on Cally. An alien avoiding death has possessed her, and Avon has to break the spell.

Directors: Fiona Cumming
Writer: Tanith Lee
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Terminal
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7.74
174 votes

#4 - Terminal

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/31/1980

Avon secretly takes over the ship and flies it through a field containing enzymes which eat away at the Liberator's hull. They reach the planetoid Terminal, where Avon believes Blake is residing.

Directors: Mary Ridge
Writer: Terry Nation
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Ultraworld
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7.72
118 votes

#5 - Ultraworld

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/1980

The crew go to the planet Ultraworld, only to discover it is a mental reprocessing plant. Vila saves the crew by telling riddles to Orac.

Directors: Vere Lorrimer
Writer: Trevor Hoyle
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Powerplay
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7.64
150 votes

#6 - Powerplay

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1980

Avon and Dayna return to the Liberator, only to find it has been claimed by Tarrant. The rest of the crew are rescued by a medical ship and eventually brought back to the Liberator.

Directors: David Maloney
Writer: Terry Nation
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City at the Edge of the World
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7.60
145 votes

#7 - City at the Edge of the World

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1980

The crew strike a deal for crystals needed for Liberator's weapon systems. In exchange, Vila must help in obtaining a treasure on the planet Keezarn but in doing so he finds a gateway to another world.

Directors: Vere Lorrimer
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Rumours of Death
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7.46
115 votes

#8 - Rumours of Death

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/1980

Avon wishes to hunt down the Federation inquisitor, Shrinker, who killed his former girlfriend, Anna Grant. He finds her alive, now working as an agent of the Federation.

Directors: Fiona Cumming
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The Harvest of Kairos
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7.42
146 votes

#9 - The Harvest of Kairos

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1980

One of Servalan's former subordinates, critical of her inability to catch the Liberator, is given an opportunity to catch it. Kairopan crystals harvested from the planet Kairos are taken aboard the Liberator after an attack run on the Federation freighter transporting them. Servalan boards the Liberator for the first time.

Directors: Gerald Blake
Writer: Ben Steed
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Dawn of the Gods
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7.31
118 votes

#10 - Dawn of the Gods

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1980

Orac steers Liberator off course to investigate a black hole and the Thaarn reach out to Cally from her childhood stories. Liberator lands on the artificial planet Crador.

Directors: Desmond McCarthy
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Volcano
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7.23
117 votes

#11 - Volcano

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/1980

The crew search for a new home base on the planet Obsidian, whose volcanic outbursts -- and a nuclear device buried in the planet's core by its inhabitants -- protect the planet from being overtaken. Servalan employs an elaborate plan to take control of the Liberator.

Directors: Desmond McCarthy
Writer: Allan Prior
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Children of Auron
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7.18
114 votes

#12 - Children of Auron

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/1980

Servalan introduces a plague to the people of Auron, and the crew journey to Cally's homeworld to save them. Servalan uses this plan as bait to get the Liberator, and to make clones in her image, the only offspring she feels she could trust.

Directors: Andrew Morgan
Writer: Roger Parkes
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Moloch
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7.12
173 votes

#13 - Moloch

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/17/1980

Tarrant is teleported into a spaceship bound for the invisible planet Sardos, which the crew of Liberator discover after nearly crashing into it. Servalan is interested in the matter replication technology developed by the inhabitants of the planet.

Directors: Vere Lorrimer
Writer: Ben Steed
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