Series One - Episodes 1 - 13.

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• The Way Back
• Space Fall
• Cygnus Alpha
• Time Squad
• The Web
• Seek-Locate-Destroy
• Mission to Destiny
• Duel
• Project Avalon
• Breakdown
• Bounty
• Deliverance
• Orac

The Way Back - Episode 1

Life in the domed city of the future is secure and comfortable for Roj Blake until he discovers the nightmare that contradicts everything he knows and threatens to end his life on earth.

Seeking information about his family, Roj Blake accompanies a couple of activists out of the dome city and once outside he meets a man who appears to know him. Foster tells Blake that he was once the leader of a powerful underground faction - but was captured and has been brainwashed by the authorities - and is needed again in the resistance movement.

Shocked by these revelations, Blake asks for some time to think over what he's learned and walks off through the underground tunnels; while there he hears approaching troops and quickly hides, from where he witnesses the slaughter of all the activists.

Following his attempts to sneak back into the dome, he is caught by the spy, Dev Tarrant. Awaking in a prison cell, he discovers that he is being charged with child molesting - in an effort to discredit him.

He convinces his lawyer that the charges are false, but when the lawyer uncovers evidence to corroborate this, the lawyer is killed and Blake finds himself in a holding cell awaiting deportation to the planet Cygnus Alpha. It is in this cell where Blake meets Vila Restal and Jenna Stannis - also enroute to the prison planet.

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Space Fall - Episode 2

The departure of the prison ship London is brought forward to ensure that Blake does not receive a reprieve, and the long journey to the prison planet Cygnus Alpha begins.

The guards are brutal and the long journey looks very unpleasent. Blake, with the aid of other prisoners including Vila, Jenna, Kerr Avon and Oleg Gan attempt a coup and manage to gain control of the ships computer room.

In an effort to regain control, the first officer, Sub-Commander Raiker, starts executing one of prisoners every thirty seconds until Jenna, Avon and Blake surrender. Despite Avon's complaints, they surrender rapidly - although a few more prisoners are executed.

With the prisoners back in their cell, the crew of the London detect a large apparently derelict ship floating nearby and decide to attempt a salvage operation. After several crew members are lost in the attempt, the captain decides to send Jenna, Blake and Avon into the derelict ship to recover the lost crewmen.

Within the alien ship, they start to succumb to a self-defence system that uses their memory against them, but Blake's knowledge that his memories are falsified allows him to duck the illusions it generates and save the others.

The three of them gain control of the alien ship which Blake names The Liberator, and manage to escape with the help of the ship's computer Zen. Raiker is killed in the escape attempt.

Cygnus Alpha - Episode 3

Using their new ship, the Liberator, Blake and his crew persue the London to the prison planet Cygnus Alpha.

During the voyage, the ship is searched and Avon discovers that the Liberator is equipped with a teleport device, so on their arrival at Cygnus Alpha, Blake teleports down to the planet.

Once there, he discovers that the inhabitants of Cygnus Alpha have formed a strange religious order, and that a deadly disease has infected the other prisoners. This disease can be treated, but not cured, by the resident monks. Anyone leaving the monk's sphere of influence will die.

Blake eventually discovers that the disease is a sham, perpetrated by the ruler, Vargus, to force new prisoners to convert to his prevailing religion.

The prisoners break out aided by Blake and the teleport device, but he only manages to rescue Vila and Gan - most of the others are killed. Vila and Gan join Blake, Avon and Jenna on the Liberator.

Time Squad - Episode 4

On their way to attack the Federation communications complex on the planet Saurian Major, Blake answers the distress call of a mysterious projectile, drifting in space.

The craft is found to contact a number of cryogenically frozen people and the crew take the ship inside the hold and start the lengthy process of returning bodies, frozen in time, to life.

Meanwhile, Blake, Vila and Avon attempt to contact the resistance cell on Saurian Major, before they attack the communications complex. However, they only suceed in contacting the sole survivor of the resistance team, a telepath from the Planet Auron called Cally.

While Blake, Cally, Avon and Vila are down on the planet, the rest of the crew have problems on board the Liberator when the crew of the spacecraft awake from their sleep and turn out to be far from friendly. In fact they are guardians, programmed to protect the embryonic cells carried in the capsule. After a short battle, the crew manage to overcome the guardians, and on the planet, the communications complex is destroyed.

The Web - Episode 5

The Liberator starts to accelerate unexpectedly under control of an unexplainable gravitational pull. The crew eventually bring the Liberator back under control, but the ship is enveloped in a gossamer fungus holding the ship frozen in space.

Blake is then contacted by renegades of Cally's world, called the Lost. Blake teleports down and encounters two of the Lost and a race of hostile out-of-control creations called the Decimas.

The base is running out of energy and the Lost propose a trade - energy cells in exchange for a way out of the Web that envelopes the Liberator.

However, it becomes clear that the Lost intend to wipe out the rapidly evolving race of Decimas with their new supply of energy, so Blake refuses to give up the required energy cells. The Decimas gain entry to the base, overrunning it and destroying the Lost.

Seek-Locate-Destroy - Episode 6

The Liberator arrives at Centero, a planet hosting a strategic Federation Communications Centre. Blake, Vila, Gan, Avon and Cally attempt to break in, and steal the vital cypher machine that will enable them to read all the Federation's messages.

They sabotage the centre to cover their tracks and leave, but Cally is left behind after loosing her communicator in a fight with a guard.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Commander of the Federation forces, Servalan, assigns the ruthless Space Commandor Travis to find and destroy Blake and the Liberator, using Cally as bait.

Travis insists on three experimental, Sunburst class, high speed pursuit ships crewed by genetically modified humans called mutoids. Realising Blake has captured the cypher machine, Travis sends a fake high security message about Cally, in order to lay a trap for Blake and the others.

Blake manages to fool Travis arrives in time to save Cally and teleport back to the Liberator.

Mission to Destiny - Episode 7

Finding the Ortega, an old Galaxy-class transport ship in a circular holding pattern in deep space, Blake, Avon and Cally teleport over to investigate.

There they find a drugged crew, a murdered pilot and evidence of sabotage. The crew are transporting a cylinder containing an urgently needed (and hugely expensive) chemical to the planet Destiny, to prevent an agricultural disaster. This chemical, a neutrotope, is used to adjust a Sun's radiation output to help kill off some planetary fungus.

The ship's drive has been damaged, rendering it only capable of sub-light drive. To get the vital cylinder to Destiny in time, Blake offers to take it in the Liberator, leaving Avon and Cally behind to help with repairs and to detect the murderer. As they begin their investigations, more murders occur. With the cylinder safe on board the Liberator, what can the murderer hope to gain?

Duel - Episode 8

Travis' forces ensnare the Liberator in a lethal trap in orbit around a remote and unknown planet, but a power-draining forcefield renders both forces immovable.

Blake and Jenna, Travis and one of his Mutoid crew are ubducted by the planet's aliens, taking them down to the planet surface to settle their differences in a duel without high technology weapons.

Blake and Jenna must try to stay alive against Travis' cunning - all the time watched by the crew of the Liberator.

Project Avalon - Episode 9

Travis engineers another deadly plan to destroy Blake and the Liberator and even Servelan believes it cannot fail.

Blake and the crew head toward a Federation planet with an active resistance unit, headed by the mysterious Avalon. Unfortunately, Travis and his Mutoid crew arrive first, and ambush a resistance meeting, killing most of the activists and capturing Avalon.

Blake and Jenna teleport down, find a survivor and determine to rescue Avalon before she breaks down under interrogation and names all the resistance leaders in the entire sector.

But Travis' scientists are constructing an android double of Avalon, with the specific intention to let the double be rescued. Once taken aboard the Liberator, it would then release a toxic fungus which would kill the crew and then disperse quickly, leaving the Liberator undamaged.

But the double is discovered and Avon alters the android's programming so that it tries to kill Servelan and Travis. The Liberator and her crew escape... but the android fails in its new mission.

Breakdown - Episode 10

Gan's limiter brain implant places his life in jeopardy. The implant is designed to limit aggressive impusles, but when it malfunctions he attacks the crew and is in urgent need of neurosurgery.

The only source of the replacement parts and medical expertise needed to save Gan, is the neutral medical and weapons research centre - XK72.

To reach XK72 they must navigate an area of space designated by Zen as containing unacceptable danger. The crew continue but Zen shutsdown, deciding that entering the zone is the same as a self-destruct command.

After a short while in the Zone, the Liberator begins to pick up speed - the effect of a massive gravitational vortex. The Liberator just manages to get through by aiming right at its centre.

Once at XK72, the crew must persuade the researchers to treat Gan without putting themselves in danger. They attempt to pass the Liberator off as an advanced Federation prototype ship to deflect suspicion.

However they do not fool Doctor Kayn - the surgeon who must treat Gan. Kayn contacts the Federation and delays the operation to buy time for the Federation Pursuit ships that are coming.

Blake, resorting to threats, eventually forces Kayn to commence the surgery. The operation is a success and Kayn returns to XK72, only to have the base destroyed by a stray Federation missile.

Bounty - Episode 11

President Sarkoff is a prisoner of the Federation on an unnamed planet. Sarkoff was the resistance leader on the planet Lindor.

Blake and Cally teleport down to the planet in order to rescue Sarkoff and return him to Lindor. After getting past numerous guards they eventually persuade Sarkoff to go with them.

While Blake and Cally are on the surface, the Liberator answers a distress call from an approaching ship. But they are fooled, and the vicious Tarvin takes over, supposedly aided by Jenna - an old partner of Tarvin's.

But Jenna is just playing for time and at the right moment, the crew retake the ship and deliver Sarkoff to his home planet's resistance group.

Deliverance - Episode 12

Ensor has travelled to the Federation to get help for his father, also called Ensor, who needs new energy cells for his cardiac-support system. Something called Orac is to be used in exchange. However, on the way back to his father with a surgeon, Ensor's ship is rocked by an explosion, orchestrated by Servalan. The ship dives into planet Cephlon, with the crew fleeing via two escape capsules.

The Liberator rushes to help but the crew are hindered by the high radiation levels on the planet surface. Avon, Vila, Gan and Jenna teleport down and manage to locate the capsules, but only Ensor survived.

Once onboard, Ensor begs the crew to fly to the planet Aristo, to help his father. But somehow Jenna has gone missing. Avon, Vila and Gan teleport back to the surface to begin a search. But they are soon left alone, as Ensor hijacks the Liberator and forces the trip to Aristo.

Jenna is finally located, held prisoner by a primitive race of savages. The rescue team manage to get her free, and run to a hidden base on the planet, where they find Meegat - the lone survivor of a race of people who are now held in stasis on a rocket.. She believes Avon to be the Lord, the one who will help launch the rocket and start the species on their way to a new planet.

Back on board the Liberator, Ensor finally dies of his injuries, and Blake and Cally rush back to Cephlon, in time to see the rocket launched. The crew are teleported up, and decide to find out what Orac really is.

Orac - Episode 13

Blake and his group decide that whatever Orac is, it could swing the balance of power against them, and decide they must stop the Federation from getting to it firstc. They seek out the reclusive computer genius Ensor who has created Orac, with the Federation's Servalan and Travis close on their tails.

But all is not well on the Liberator. Avon, Jenna, Vila and Gan are suffering from radiation sickness, caused by spending too much time on the planet Cephlon. However the Liberator is out of the required drugs. They are hoping they can get new drugs from Ensor.

Blake and Cally manage to get to Ensor's underwater base and discover that Orac is an incredible computer brain, able to access information from any computer in Federation space. Ensor gives them the required radiation drugs and agrees to go with them to the Liberator, in the hope they can replace the aging power cells in his cardiac system.

However, on their way out to the surface, the encouter Servalan and Travis, and a daring chase takes place through the underwater tunnels. During the chase, Ensor dies, but Blake and Jenna finally make it to the surface, only to be surprised by Servalan and Travis who have used a different route.

Just before Travis fires on Blake, Avon appears with Vila, worried about the length of time the operation is taking and he destroy's Travis' gun. Leaving them on the planet, Blake and his crew teleport back to the Liberator.

The episode ends with the crew testing Orac, who reveals that by using the known knowledge of all the computers he has access to, and by using logical extrapolation, he can predict the future. The episode - and this series - ends with his prediction.... the Liberator being destroyed!