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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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We finally reach the denouement of Series B but who will get out alive?

That keenest of self-promoters, Servalan, is in a flap as her previously moist parts are dry and her melons are freezing.

Something's up at Star One where the technicians are more cabbage than kings and the neighbourhood is about to go down the (toilet) pan. 

Can Blake convince the enemy that he's Travis?

Can Brian Croucher convince us that Travis is remotely interested in Blake's death?

And can Avon and co hold off the advancing fleet of Space car boot sale leftovers?

And do Jim and Martin think the episode is a worthy end to the series or is it more whimper than bang?

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As mentioned in the episode, the play-out song is the Blake's 7 themed Intergalactic Space Crusaders by Star One, from their 2002 album Space Metal.

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