Blake's 7 Logo 'Traitor'
by Robert Holmes
Blake's 7 Cast

The Federation relentlessly continues to expand its powerbase across the galaxy, and when the planet Helotrix is re-conquered, Avon sends Tarrant and Dayna to investigate. They meet Hunda, a rebel leader who tells them that the Federation is using a new pacification drug called Pylene 50 to bring entire populations under its rule through conditioning. After Practor, the puppet leader of Helotrix informs his aides that he has heard reports that Servalan has been deposed and presumed dead, he is killed by an unknown assailant. Hunda introduces Tarrant and Dayna to a rebel agent named Leitz, who gives them the location of the Pylene 50 manufacturing plant; they infiltrate the base, encountering security measures that Leitz failed to tell them of. They find the inventor of the drug, a disabled scientist named Forbus, who gives them both the antidote. However, unknown to everyone Leitz is a double-agent, and he informs the Federation of Hunda’s plans. Tarrant and Dayna realise that Leitz has betrayed them, and they race back to Hunda so that they can begin immunising him and his followers against the pacification drug. An attack on Federation headquarters is mounted, during which Tarrant and Dayna catch a glimpse of Commissioner Sleer - none other than Servalan. They return to Scorpio and inform Avon. Meanwhile, Servalan kills Forbus - and when Leitz attempts to bargain with her, Servalan kills him too, in order to protect her identity.

Paul Darrow (Roj Avon), Michael Keating (Vila Restal), Josette Simon (Dayna Mellanby), Steven Pacey (Del Tarrant), Glynis Barber (Soolin), Peter Tuddenham (Orac / Slave), Malcolm Stoddard (Leitz), Christopher Neame (Colonel Quute), Robert Morris (Major Hunda), John Quentin (Practor), Edgar Wreford (Forbus), Nick Brimble (General), David Quilter (The Tracer), Neil Dickson (Avandir), Cyril Appleton (Sergeant Hask), George Lee (Igin)

Directed by David Sullivan Proudfoot
Produced by David Maloney


TX:
12th October 1981 @ 7.20 pm - 8.10 pm

Notes:
*Featuring Kerr Avon, Vila Restal, Dayna Mellanby, Del Tarrant, Soolin, Orac and Slave