Featuring Colin Salmon, Craig Kelly, Keeley Hawes, Geoffrey Palmer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jake Maskall, Peter Guinness, Owen Aaronovitch, Michael Cochrane, Carrie Dobro, Stephen Lord, Jan Chappell and Michael Keating
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The Dust Run & The Trial
VILA & GAN (Story 1.1)
WHEN VILA MET GAN
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Director Andrew Mark Sewell
Featuring: Michael Keating, Owen Aaronovitch and Alistair Lock as Zen
30 years since the dramatic and shocking finale of the original series Michael Keating reprises his most famous role as the cowardly thief, Vila. Earth. 2230 AD. A time of social and political turmoil… Olag Gan wants to marry the woman of his dreams. Vila Restal wants to steal anything that isn’t nailed down. When they form a partnership, a perfect combination of strength and skill, it seems that nothing stands between them and the easy life. But fate hates to give a sucker an even break and the course of true love never did run smooth.
TRAVIS (Story 1.2)
POINT OF NO RETURN
Written by James Swallow
Director Duncan McAlpine
Featuring Craig Kelly, Jake Maskall and Peter Guinness
London, 2230; on the eve of a tense election that will send shockwaves throughout the Federation, Major Stefan Travis (Craig Kelly) finds his liberty unexpectedly cancelled and a new assignment thrust upon him. A key political activist and opponent of the government (Peter Guinness) has been arrested, accused of hate crimes and incitement to violence, but a trail of murder and conspiracy leads Travis to doubt the truth presented to him. When a deadly terrorist atrocity looms, how far will he go to prevent millions of deaths?
AVON (Story 1.3)
EYE OF THE MACHINE
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Director Andrew Mark Sewell
Featuring Colin Salmon, Keeley Hawes and Geoffrey Palmer
Oxford University. It is the Freedom Spring of 2230 and the campus is a hotbed of student protest as Roj Blake’s Freedom Party seeks to sweep away a century of corrupt rule. Kerr Avon (Colin Salmon), a young man from the frontier, brilliant, ambitious and naïve, has arrived to make his mark on the future. Avon is here to work with Professor Ensor (Geoffrey Palmer), the Federation’s most brilliant cyberneticist, and has no intention of getting involved in politics – he may be naïve but he isn’t stupid. And then he meets Anna Grant (Keeley Hawes), activist and girl about town, and all bets are off!
CALLY (Story 1.4.1)
BLOOD AND EARTH
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Director Dominic Devine
Featuring Jan Chappell, Amy Humphreys, Barbara Joslyn and Julian Wadham
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Blood & Earth
On Auron, every clone lives in a world buoyed by the constant murmur of telepathic support, gossip and opinions. When Ariane Cally’s plane crashes in the middle of a wilderness park she finds herself cut off not only from rescue, but the voices that have sustained her all her life. Her only hope is the mysterious Aunty, the single voice she can still hear, a woman who claims to have been the second Cally ever to be born on Auron. From Aunty she will learn the true and secret history of her people, but only if the wilderness doesn’t kill her first.
CALLY (Story 1.4.2)
FLAG & FLAME
Written by Marc Platt
Director Dominic Devine
Featuring Susannah Doyle, Natalie Walter and Michael Cochrane
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Flag & Flame
Twins are special; Auronar clone twins doubly so. They’re grown that way. Pilot Skate Cally and Operative Merrin Cally are a Flight Team on the Auronar cruiser Flag of Hope. They’ve been in each other’s heads, living each other’s lives, the same feelings, differences, orders and taste buds, since they were first poured out of a vat. But after High Command sends Skate on a one-way mission investigating Federation incursions in the Dancer Cluster, Merrin faces a bleak new future on her own, uncovering the dark half of the sister she thought she knew.
JENNA (Story 1.5.1)
THE DUST RUN
Written by Simon Guerrier
Director Alistair Lock
Featuring Carrie Dobro and Benedict Cumberbatch
Jenna Stannis has grown up as a spacer, where the normal rules don’t apply. No school, no police, no public imperatives – that’s still all to come. But the situation on Earth is changing and the effects are slowly being felt throughout the Vega system. It’s going to mean trouble for a brash boy called Townsend – who Jenna doesn’t fancy at all. Soon Jenna and Townsend are competing in the Dust Run – racing shuttles through an asteroid field without using computers, making the complex calculations in their heads. It’s dangerous, fool-hardy and really good fun. But they’re playing for the highest of stakes…
JENNA (Story 1.5.2)
THE TRIAL
Written by Simon Guerrier
Director Alistair Lock
Featuring Carrie Dobro, Stephen Lord and Benedict Cumberbatch
The election is going to change everything. A man called Roj Blake promises the voters new hope, an end to years of corruption. There are those who can’t let him be heard. But Jenna Stannis is determined to get his message out to the colonies. It’s been years since the Dust Run, and Jenna’s a changed woman. She’s left the Vega system far behind, using her exceptional piloting skills to carve out a life as a smuggler. Blake’s message could earn her a fortune – or cost her, her life.
Incidental Music & Post Production: Alistair Lock
Incidental Music (Cally): Dominic Glynn
Incidental Music (Jenna): Simon Russell
Script Editor: Ben Aaronovitch
Duration: 250 minutes approx
Release Date: 30 November 2009
ISBN: 978-1-906577-08-7
Based on the original television series BLAKE’S 7 created by TERRY NATION
