1978

S1.E1 ∙ The Way Back

Sun, Jan 01, 1978

Former resistance leader Roj Blake witnesses a massacre and is subsequently framed for a series of fictional crimes by the totalitarian Federation.

7.9 /10

Blake attempts to take over the prison transport ship London with help from Kerr Avon and Jenna Stannis. When this fails, Blake, Jenna and Avon are sent to investigate an abandoned alien spaceship, where Blake grabs the chance to take control of that ship and escape.

8 /10

S1.E3 ∙ Cygnus Alpha

Sun, Jan 15, 1978

Blake, Avon and Jenna follow the transport ship London to the Federation prison planet Cygnus Alpha where Blake teleports to the surface to free the prisoners. But the planet's supreme ruler Vargas wants to take over the Liberator in his goal of total power and conquest of the galaxy.

7 /10

S1.E4 ∙ Time Squad

Sun, Jan 22, 1978

Blake picks up an unidentified space projectile en route to an attack on Saurian Major, accidentally allowing three dangerous aliens aboard the Liberator.

6.7 /10

S1.E5 ∙ The Web

Sun, Jan 29, 1978

Cally comes under the influence of an alien intelligence from her own people's legends, causing her to sabotage the Liberator. The ship goes off course and becomes ensnared by an organic web that surrounds a remote planet inhabited by a genetically-engineered race and their creators.

6.6 /10

S1.E6 ∙ Seek-Locate-Destroy

Sun, Feb 05, 1978

Supreme Commander Servalan assigns Federation military officer Space Commander Travis (wounded by Blake) to eliminate Blake and the crew of the Liberator. However, Travis takes Cally captive, when Blake and the crew steal a message decoder from a Federation security base on Centero.

7.7 /10

S1.E7 ∙ Mission to Destiny

Sun, Feb 12, 1978

Kendall, the captain of a spaceship whose crewmember has been murdered, offers Blake the location to Destiny if he helps him find the killer on-board the ship.

7.1 /10

S1.E8 ∙ Duel

Sun, Feb 19, 1978

On a world destroyed by warfare, two powerful aliens force Blake and Travis to fight each other to the death so their ships will survive.

7.3 /10

S1.E9 ∙ Project Avalon

Sun, Feb 26, 1978

Blake and Jenna teleport down to evacuate a well-known resistance leader named Avalon, only to find that she was captured by the Federation. The Liberator's crew launch a rescue mission, not realizing that Travis is using Avalon as bait.

7.6 /10

S1.E10 ∙ Breakdown

Sun, Mar 05, 1978

The Liberator heads for space station XK72 where they seek help from surgeon Professor Kayn, when Gan's limiter implant malfunctions causing Gan to go psychotic and violently attack members of the crew. But Professor Kayn has other plans and he informs the Federation of the crew's presence on-board the space station.

7 /10

S1.E11 ∙ Bounty

Sun, Mar 12, 1978

Blake and Jenna set out to convince Sarkoff, the exiled former president of the planet Lindor to return to lead his people, before the Federation assumes control of the planet. However, the Liberator is taken over by a group of bounty hunters known as Amagons.

6.6 /10

S1.E12 ∙ Deliverance

Sun, Mar 19, 1978

Approaching Cephlon, the Liberator crew witness a spacecraft crash land on the planet. They rescue a man named Ensor, who was trying to get back to his father on Aristo and arrange for the Federation to purchase something called Orac. He forces Blake and Cally to fly him to Aristo, leaving Avon, Jenna, Gan, and Vila stranded on the radiation-scarred surface of Cephlon.

6.9 /10

S1.E13 ∙ Orac

Sun, Mar 26, 1978

The crew of the Liberator head to the planet Aristo to deliver medical supplies to the computer scientist Ensor, creator of the mobile super-computer Orac. Blake and Cally require anti-radiation drugs for Avon, Gan, Vila and Jenna who have absorbed radiation on Cephlon. Travis and Servalan have also arrived on Aristo as they intend to claim Orac for themselves.

7.7 /10