Are You Assassinator?

Assassassin is the last bad episode of Blakes 7, but it manages to be so bad it is as if they were trying to squeeze all of the badness of the last seven episodes into this one to get it out of the way.

Here's Avon, being handsome on location. That's a deceptively promising start.

Avon gets captured and teams up with the Doctor (Richard Hurndall from The Five Doctors), here undercover and going by the name "Nebrox" for some reason, possibly to do with copyright.

Avon is going to be sold as a slave, and naturally Servalan wants to buy him, even offering £2,000 to the baddys who captured him. This is where the episode starts to go wrong.

The other mannys who want to buy Avon, but sadly for them don't have as much money as Servalan, are dressed very eccentrically - the one in the middle above looks as though he is Omega from The Three Doctors (possibly explaining what the Doctor is doing here - I'm sure there is a much better Doctor Who story going on at the same time as this rubbish Blakes 7 one). The overall feel of the setting and costumes for this auction scene is of the worst kind of Middle-Eastern cliche, displaying a lack of imagination that the low budget cannot excuse.

But the worst is yet to come...

This is the exact moment when anyone who has seen this episode before will display the kind of fear we can see reflected in the face of Piri here... only better, because she is not a good actress. Every scene with her in it is cringe-inducingly awful.

Piri wants hugs from Tarrant and Avon (who can blame her?) and sets them against each other.

Avon's expression here suggests that he is trying to work out how to introduce the possibility of a three-way cuddle into the conversation. Naughty Avon.

What a twist!

(I mean the hair.)

So Piri was really Cancer the Assassinator all along. She gets bitten by her own spider and goes

and that's the end of the episode.