He is. Stephen Greif is very good, but the yelling when his plan doesn't work is a tad hysterical and not in control. Is that how he ends up being the mad Travis II?

I like the collar, but the material doesn't hang well. I rather like the long silver sleeves, but the under-dress is probably having a bad effect on the one on top.

But he has a sore eye! He's allowed a bit of shouting now and then. He's a brilliant tactician, until the Feds re-educate him and turn him into Travis 2.

Ok, I’m off. See you next week.

June Hudson didn't design Servalan's dress or any of the costumes at this stage. It was Barbara Lane.

No, don't think so. It wasn't opened to wider release until after they'd done their limited run. Apparently, one of the directors did go to see it after it came out in the UK and went "Crikey! We shouldn't even be attempting this". But they did it anyway and aren't we glad they did.

|Bother. It's gone and finished. Oh well, there's always next week. (Or in my case, Tuesday).

Apologies from Travisina for missing this rewatch. This time she does have a good excuse - she's off tonight on her next trip to Israel.

Thanks for the company and comments. I suppose the real question we should be asking is how on earth did Anne learn Old French without a time machine.

Take care, folks.

It's a shame Travisina couldn't make it, but needs must and all that. Hope she has a good time.

Anne learned Old French from an Old French person.

Actually, I taught myself from a book, after doing modern French in school.

Hope Travisina has a good time in Israel!

Have a good week MsVirn.

Google gives it as appearing at a number of film festivals in Europe in the summer/autumn of 1977, and the UK seems to be about the last country where it opened. Perhaps I am forgetting how much that was a different world (a seven month gap between something opening in the US and the UK seems inconceivable now) but I also remember it as a very slick publicity machine, with all sorts of tie-ins up and running from the start. It seems unlikely that people working on a sci-fi TV series would be unaware of a major sci-fi film scheduled to open in the UK just before they aired, and would eagerly examine trailers, posters, publicity stills etc.

"Aware that Star Wars would be released in cinemas across the United Kingdom around the same time as the planned television debut of Blake's 7, Scoones spent the budget he had been allocated for the entire series on Space Fall, the first episode to be recorded but the second to be broadcast. The model filming for this episode, the first piece of filming for the series, took place at Bray Studios on 15 August 1977. Live action filming of Blake's 7 began on 26 September that year at Ealing film studios with scenes set on the spacecraft London for the episode Space Fall. Filming continued at Ealing and on location, and then moved into the studios at BBC Television Centre in November... The recording of the first series of Blake's 7 was completed on 15 March 1978."

I didn't see Star Wars until way later. Waste of time IMHO, except for Harrison Ford.