| "Countdown" | |
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| Series Blake's 7 Season 2, Episode 9 | |
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| Air date | March 6th, 1979 |
| Writers | Terry Nation |
| Director | Pennant Roberts |
| Producers | David Maloney |
| Starring | Gareth Thomas; Sally Knyvette; Paul Darrow; Michael Keating; David Jackson |
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"Countdown" is the ninth episode of series two of the British science fiction television series Blake's 7. It was directed by Pennant Roberts with a script written by Terry Nation. It first aired on Monday, March 6th, 1979 on BBC One. In this episode, Roj Blake is part of a prisoner convoy on the shuttlecraft London en route to a Federation penal colony at Cygnus Alpha. He meet another prisoner named Kerr Avon, and the two formulate a plan to escape.