Blakes 7 - Orac 2 of 7

Part 2 of an episode of "Blake's 7," a BBC sci-fi series that ran for four years in the early 80s. I'm putting this up here because this is a cool show that too few people have ever heard of.

The episode "Orac" explains how the rebels aboard the Liberator came into possession of the supercomputer that wouldn't admit to being a computer. It was the 13th and final episode of the first season, intended to be the cliffhanger episode that led into season 2.

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[Akirajay38]

fantastic, they need to rerun these suckers in the states

[jlmww]

They did at least once. That's where I got them.

If you like these so much, you might want to go looking for episodes of SAPPHIRE AND STEEL TOO.

[SagansMoon]

Amazing that this 30 year old series done on a budget of $100 is infinitely more compelling and thought-provoking than the current series of Stargate Universe. Terry Nation was a gift to every lover of science fiction.

[interstitialofficial]

Ah, 70s bbc sci-fi goodness. I was so enchanted with the warm studio lighting with its peculiar shadows, the quartet (or quintet) orchestral music, and the writing that was too intelligent for a kids show with no effects budget. It was an accident of the times. They just don't do tv like that anymore.

[MrMynerdSide]

The thing to me that defines British 70's/80's sci fi ala Blake's 7 & UK comic books ala 2000AD/ Judge Dredd is the sheer amount of people that get WACKED in every episode! Americans do not have that sense of internalized impending doom. That's very evident in British (as well as Japanese) sci fi & comics. Whole civilizations get wiped out on the regular & nobody bats an eye. Gotta love that. I can only assume it comes from the horrors experienced by the civilian population in the World Wars.

[lazyfreedom98]

7:04 Micro transmission.

[blueskyrider008]

haha, that map was funny

[OLDSCHOOLHHSEX]

Respond to this video... Has anyone noticed that the ORAC's voice in this video isnt the same voice actor used after this episode?-or even after every episode after this one?-This episode seems to be the only 1 with this voice actor for ORAC

[OLDSCHOOLHHSEX]

@SagansMoon More than **JUST A GIFT*, what these shows like BLAKE7,Doctor Who,and that OMFG,Its-just-too-FUNNY spoof of Star Trek,->RED DWARF =)p This romper room thug nation can keep thier CGI TECH WRECK SH!T,even watching that new Knight Rider with that Ford CGI *Photo-CHOPPED* generated Mustang makes me wanna throw up-producers should go back to those life sized scale models that actually works instead of a CGI film where the actors/ladies not even real will cause these films to fail

[random007nadir]

@illustriouschin lol. maybe you're right. Suggest seeing Charlie Brooker's old series Screenwipe (or is that Screen Wipe?)

[random007nadir]

@jlmww Sapphire and Steel was amazing. Slow as hell by today's standards and a bit melodramatic at times, but as a detective novel meets Lovecraft horror, unmatched. It gave me nightmares as a six year old and still impresses me as an adult. Revisited in a series of psychotically depressing radio plays in the 80-90s with David "I hate Sci Fi" Warner playing Steel. Although Charlie Brooker listed it as one of the best TV science fiction series of all time, he didn't get it - a pity.

[illustriouschin]

@random007nadir Too optimistic I'd say, they wouldn't make exasperatingly, infuriatingly mind-numbing television like Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Sanctuary if they didn't think that it would sell and they were right.

[random007nadir]

@illustriouschin I tend to agree, though wonder why that is. There's a surprising amount of evidence (usually small scale straw-polls) that audiences are nowhere near as easily bored and stupid as TV and film producers assume. That goes double for the teenage to twenty-something 'young adult' demographic who have to put up with Bulgaria's Next Top Model and Big Brother instead of a Chomsky documentary or Yes Minister which they rate much more highly. Audience is never as dumb as TV expects.

[random007nadir]

@zephranna01 ??? I've no idea what you're talking about, unfortunately. So called 'pc' is merely being polite (eg not offensive) in the face of generations of generalisation, fuzzy thinking, bias, preconceived ideas, stereotypes and irrational belief. I don't even know how the backlash against the deconstruction of traditional race and sex demarcations and the promotion of critical thinking applies to science fiction. It's far, far too late to pine for the 1950s.