Blake's 7: The Mutoid Podcast

The Scorpio crew are wanted men and women... and it's time to collect. Sleervalan dabbles in human trafficking, Wrong Doctor picks a pocket and Avon almost gets a new mistress. Our heroes escape a sandpit but can they evade a deadly assassin? And is the ghastly drip they meet along the way all that she seems? How much would you pay for a slightly soiled Avon? What sort of pathetic (curly-haired) sap would fall for someone like Piri? Has there ever been a louder cheer among viewers than when a certain person carks it in this one? And were Jim and Martin sold on this episode or were they glad to be free of it? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks!

In this thrilling instalment, Avon's after another expert but matters come to a head. Slave turns adolescent, Orac turns creepy and it turns out sallow cyberneticist, Muller, is not all he seems. Our intrepid team need fresh air and wellies as they indulge in some al fresco android annihilation. Exactly how dead is Muller? Will the BBC leave our bridges alone? Will Vila leave the Oxo Mum alone? And were Jim and Martin in the right head space for this episode or did it do their nuts in? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks! Also, some VAM... Headhunter location filming

It's time for Dayna to rekindle an old (and somewhat Nabokovian) romance on the leafy orb that is Bucol 2. Our very own Lolita finds her ancient flame (the mononymed meddler, Justin) and he lets her stroke his hairy beast. Meanwhile Sleervalan is still plodding on with her pointless new identity and offing all those who dead-name her. But how many registers is Justin on? Is there really much of a market for bear porn? Or self-exploding screens, come to that? Do cartoon paint splats leave a bruise? And did Jim and Martin roar with delight at Animals or did the episode scuttle off with its tail between its unrealistic legs? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks! Also, some VAM... Michael Keating tribute video Cavan Scott on Michael Keating Animals: location filming

After some ill-advised joy-riding from Avon, the Scorpio is in dire need of an overhaul. Luckily, some psychopathic clowns fly by and show the crew their assets, leading to a trap, a fight and a heist. But why's Avon's heart even stonier than usual? Is there a maximum IQ entry requirement for the Space Prats? Are lizards better eaten live or deep fried in engine oil? And did the episode fill Jim and Martin with the need for speed or did it career off into a ditch? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks!

It was (nearly) called a land fit for Helots. Mudskippers, more like. But it's a place that's much in demand, with a puppet leader about to be installed and a sinister snooker player hoping to replace him. Even the mysterious and strangely familiar Commissioner Sleer is taking an interest... But what does Dayna wear in bed? Why was Travis's eyepatch never blinged? Can cake decorations really save the Helots? And did the episode call Jim and Martin to arms or did it face-plant straight into the mud? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks!

Our heroes are just a door away from Scorpio and escape from Xenon. But even Vila can't open it without Avon and he's just got himself embroiled into a war of the sexes. Meanwhile, Tarrant keeps his neck braced and Dayna gets so frustrated by the obdurate Orac that she simply has to punch someone. Will our heroes ever open that bloomin' door? Has Avon got a kinky pain thing going on? Will David Daker ever be set free? And did Jim and Martin find Ben Steed's swan song powerful or was it just weak sauce? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks!

Our heroes are back... albeit in reduced circumstances. Stranded on Terminal with only Links, gobby snakes and an exploding escape vessel for company, Avon et al look to be up a certain creek with no means of propulsion... until a rescuer arrives. But who is the mysterious Dorian? What sort of kinky relationship does he have with his flight computer? Why is there an old BBC costume in his basement? And did the season opener rescue Jim and Martin from post-Liberator ennui or would they rather have gone down with the ship? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks!

This is the end, beautiful friend. Or is it...? Avon is even more anti-social than usual, Tarrant and Cally attract more monkeys than a Kubrick monolith and Zen's looking more than a little mouldy. Will Avon ever spill the beans? Will the Liberator make it to the end of the episode? Can the continuity announcer save the show? And did Jim and Martin enjoy the season finale or were they Terminally bored? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! Meanwhile, here are two interviews with the departing Jan Chappell... Blake's 7 Monthly Magazine #20 Starlog #126 If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks!

Blood is thicker than water, they say, and Tarrant gets the chance to find out as his big brother goes to war. Vila swigs, Avon snogs, Dayna sneers and Del Boy gets to walk in Deeta's shiny shoes as the galaxy watches. Does Cliff Jones still have some green death on his hand? What is that on Deeta's head and would it like a saucer of milk? How many pan-galactic gargle blasters would it take for Dayna to fancy Vila? And did Jim and Martin achieve the ultimate thrill with Death-Watch or did they take one for the team? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! If you have a moment, please consider giving us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, etc. Many thanks!

It's "toxic masculinity ahoy!" this time as our intrepid outlaws fetch up on the planet of 1970s blokes. Ben Steed inflicts upon us another misogynistic smorgasbord in which a bunch of unreconstructed males terrorise the winsome women of Sardos. But who is the real power behind the organisation? Why does he look like that (budget considerations aside)? Is Vila the worst of all Servalan's right-hand-men (Jarriere aside)? And did Moloch leave Jim and Martin Reformed or with a bad taste in their mouths? Listen to find out! But don't play this... The Rebels' Refrain This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , at Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening!

Core blimey! Avon loves computers but enough to run around inside one? For this is Ultraworld - every technophobe's nightmare. Menaced by both the bald and the elderly, our heroes must perambulate through a PC to save calamitous Cally and a particularly sweaty Avon, while hoping they don't mix up their minds. After all, Avon's personality in Cally's body doesn't bear thinking about. Is this the worst ever Blue Man Group gig? Why is Dayna dentally dangerous? Which Christmas crackers does Vila buy (and how can you avoid them)? And did Ultraworld blow Jim and Martin's minds or leave them brain dead? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! Some things to read (and not laugh at): Josette Simon interview Sheelagh Wells interview #1 Sheelagh Wells interview #2 Vila's Gags

Time for our intrepid travellers to play at dress up. Cally's uses her lizard brain, Tarrant is the Scarlet Gimpernel, Dayna indulges in some blatant lyreing, and Vila's become a low-rent children's entertainer. Avon, of course, is the bloke in black who ruins everyone's fun. But what is the secret of the space pumpkin? Should Avon really be going round kissing dead people? Less importantly, can he beat Tarrant in a piddling competition? And did Jim and Martin gain new life from watching Sarcophagus or was it like being trapped at a particularly weird wake? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! Some things to read: TV Zone Fantasy Flashback: Sarcophagus Fiona Cumming interview

Avon (or "Avon" to his loved ones) has a score to settle - even if that means some voluntary confinement and ocular endangerment along the way. He wants to cut Shrinker down to size but it turns out the trembling torturer might not have been Anna's executioner after all. Meanwhile, Servalan knows that rebuilding the Federation is a marathon, not a sprint, but it looks like she's hit a wall. Will the wise-cracking dentists make it to the end of the episode? Do Avon and Dayna really stash their prized possessions where the sun don't shine? Can Tarrant ever be forgiven for THAT moment on the patio? And do Jim and Martin feel that Rumours of Death is a glorious triumph or a Pyrrhic victory? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! As an extra, here's Paul Darrow on Anna Grant and Rumours of Death

Servalan's feeling broody so everyone else must suffer for her little children. Wiping out Cally's race is, of course, a small price to pay for these fascist foetuses and, call it nesting instinct if you like, she also has her eyes on the Liberator. But she reckons without uncommunicative Aurons, subordinate infighting and Orac the apothecary. But what the heck is Michael Troughton wearing and why? Can Servalan's dress tell the future? Who filled the Liberator flight-deck with nitrous oxide? And did Jim and Martin feel paternal towards the episode or was it like babysitting the Bash Street Kids? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening!

So Vila finally gets his moment in the (CSO) sun. And all he has to do to earn it is open an unopenable door and avoid being killed by a Six-maniac. But at least he almost gets the girl. How do you subtly hint to a new acquaintance that they may have personal hygiene issues? What are the practical difficulties posed by invisible legs? Can you really raise kids and cattle on an asteroid? And did Jim and Martin find the episode full of Homeworld charm or was it like crawling through slime? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! The additional content mentioned in the episode: The Colin Baker Chronicles Sheelagh Wells interview

It's time for a spot of piracy for our intrepid and newly-aimless adventurers. And where better to do that than on a deadly planet infested with enormous zeppelin-arsed insects? But who died and made Tarrant Liberator captain? Is Jarvik a complete arse (or merely a buttock)? As Servalan is unqualified to weep at the death of a friend, does laughing at the demise of an enemy count? And did the episode yield riches for Jim and Martin, or was it just some obsolete space junk? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other pod apps (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! And, as promised within the podcast, the Clive James hatchet job and TV spot with Jacqueline Pearce. https://archive.clivejames.com/essays/facedog.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvxBCAdMoD0

Newly self-appointed leader, Tarrant, is powerless to stop the Liberator and crew from being sucked into a black hole. Therein they find a place which could be none more black, inhabited by a regency fop, a wild west bank clerk and a wee man with cranial varicose veins. When will Avon teleport Tarrant into deep space? When it comes to equations, who is the sharpest graphite writing stick in the box? Will Cally swipe left (or burst out laughing) when she sees the Thaarn? And will Jim and Martin place the episode up among the gods or will it dawn on them that it's a black hole of quality? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other podcatchers (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening! And, as promised within the podcast, the DreamWatch James Follett interview... Our thanks to Marilyn Burge for supplying this.

Newbies Tarrant and Dayna are on a mission on behalf of their crew to find someone that only they have never met. And to maybe find a suitable place to settle down and electroshock kids. However, Servalan and Not-Travis have other plans, which involve a posh tramp, a dead dog and a parsnip with a face. Is it medieval re-enactment week on the Liberator? Does Michael Gough have smelly hands? What is the secret of the Yorkshire Moors mincers? And did Volcano light a fire inside Jim and Martin or is their love for the episode extinct? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other podcatchers (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening!

After escaping Sarran, Avon and Dayna arrive on the Liberator where they find some squabbling squatters. A young Blake-alike, Mr Bronson's evil twin and some less-than-crack troopers are acting like they own the place so our two rebels have to act as a castaway couple. Meanwhile Vila develops a split personality and Cally meets a familiar and impatient in-patient. Will the Terran Federation trespassers find out the truth about Mr & Mrs Chevron? Which of Vila's organs will the Chengans discard? Is Steven Toast one of Tarrant's ancestors? And were Jim and Martin in Powerplay's power or did it choke the life out of them? Listen to find out! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other podcatchers (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook , Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and on Threads and Bluesky where we are @mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening!

Series C kicks off with a Tempest of activity (do you see?). Avon gets two snogs, Dayna loses two loved ones and the Sarrans are too primitive to open a hatch. Will Avon really team up with saucy Servalan to rule the galaxy? Who is the random NPC in the dunes? Is there any justification for shaving horses? And do Jim and Martin think the episode hits the mark like Dayna with an arrow, or kicks the bucket like Mike Yates and a Terileptil? Listen to find out (some of the above)! This episode can also be found at iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Audible , Player FM , Pocket Casts , Podvine , Castbox and all other podcatchers (as far as we know). You can also find us on Facebook and Mastodon at @mutoidpodcast@mstdn.social , and look us up on Threads and Bluesky, where we are mutoidkrynoidpods . Thanks for listening!