Space Fall: A Blake’s 7 Podcast

13 - Orac

Space Fall: A Blake’s 7 Podcast

Show Notes

“The Federation is willing to pay a hundred million credits for Orac. Blake must get to Orac first - but what is it? Orac is a radically new computer-brain which has access to all the knowledge of the universe and is the creation of the renegade Professor Ensor.” Synopsis from The Canberra Times (Canberra), 15 June 1979.

Join us for a discussion of the 13th episode of Blakes 7, first broadcast on March 27th, 1978. (First shown in Australia on Friday, June 15th 1979 at 8:15pm)

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