BLAKE’S SEVEN: SEEK-LOCATE-DESTROY & ORAC. BFI Southbank, Saturday 5 October 2024. I was a Doctor Who fan first and foremost in the 1970s, so in 1978 I pretended that I wasn’t as enamoured of Blake’s 7 as I really was. In those days, pop culture was very tribal – you weren’t allowed, it seemed, to listen to 2-Tone if your preference was for Punk or Led Zeppelin. Looking back, I can now see that Blake’s 7 was a stepping stone on my path to adulthood. I was moving away from the innocence, fun and simple morality of Doctor Who into the ethical ambiguity, cynicism and real politick of the grown-up world, filtered through Blake’s 7 ’s jaundiced, though engaging, worldview. It wasn’t until much later in life, that I realised being an adult didn’t necessarily mean you had to put away children’s (or teenage) things. Which is what brought me back to the BFI Southbank on Saturday, 5 October 2024. Courtesy of most of the restoration team behind the seminal Doctor Who: The Collection...
