Blake's 7

Well, look, yes, I'm always distracted in that sequence by...

Now, I know a lot of other podcasters and television researchers and historians and nerds are much better at identifying stock BBC set and costumes, but I'd just like to point out when those three peasants are sitting on that log together, the one on the far right of screen, I'm not sure if it's Hale or Pace, whichever one of those two it is, he is wearing a costume from Blake's Seven.

How did you

find that

and I bet you know correct me if I'm wrong but throughout university and that your experiences of all these games was there ever a hint that this could be a career for me or did you always just see it as sort of play time?

So me and Stuart we always used to dream like one day we'll have a games company and we'll you know all the desks will look like Blake 7 and you know have all those little flashing lights on them and we'll have like you know electric doors and we kind of i think we kind of daydreamed of one day we could do all that you know but never never thought much of it of course and you know i was in i was in music businesses never that wasn't going to change and um but we kept writing game ideas we wrote a game called blaster array that was a little bit Savage Worlds, but with miniatures, and it was an RPG, and it was our own world, and it was set in a artificial star system called Modiphius, spelled with an F, which became the name of the company, funnily enough.

So when I came up with the name, I was like, well, also, you want to find a good .com address, and when you make up a name, it's easy.

And I'd always thought, you know what, that was a great name, and I spelled it P-H, Modiphius, M-O-D-I-P-H. and um um it was just you know felt right you know it's kind of harking back to those early those early years of writing games and stuff but i'd never i mean even when we started doing action cathedral was our first our first rpg it was just like well this will maybe this will pay for a weekend away once a year like if i do these rpgs and it will something i wanted to do for fun and i had a t-shirt company at the time And I never dreamed that it would start a company, but the Kickstarter did so well that we were like, oh, we better take this seriously and start a company.

Who planet of fire.

Um, she shows up in Blake seven as supposedly, but not, You've seen her in Blake 7.

I haven't yet because I haven't seen all the seasons yet.

It's also timey-wimey.

Oh, that would be inconspicuous.

And this is an actor called Stephen Griff, who had been in Blake Seven on the BBC previously.

I think

he's still around.

Is he not around? A couple of years gone, I think,

yeah.

Blake Seven, I have a strange connection to.

I can't remember her name.

Oh, okay.

So they're doing that little series thing.

And it's actually, the sex in it is really hot.

I mean, him and Jonah together are a good pair.

happens to like, you know.

Well, I did complain about the

ending of the series Blake 7 the other day and said it was the worst series ending episode ever.

Hmm.