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Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for broadcast by BBC1, four 13-episode series being broadcast between 1978 and 1981.

It was created by Terry Nation, who also created the Daleks for the television series Doctor Who.

The script editor was Chris Boucher.

The main character, at least initially, was Roj Blake, played by Gareth Thomas.

The series was inspired by various fictional media including Robin Hood, Star Trek, Passage to Marseille, The Dirty Dozen, Brave New World, classic Western stories as well as real-world political conflicts in South America and Israel.

Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies.

A spin-off from the 2005 revival of long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who, Torchwood aired four series between 2006 and 2011.

The show shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from BBC Three to BBC Two to BBC One, and acquiring US financing in its fourth series when it became a co-production of BBC One and Starz.

In contrast to Doctor Who, whose target audience includes both adults and children, Torchwood is aimed at an older audience.

Over its run, the show explored a number of themes; prominent among these were existentialism, homosexual and bisexual relationships, and explorations of human corruptibility.

The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961.

The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry) and his assistant John Steed (Patrick Macnee).

Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants.

Steed's most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), and Tara King (Linda Thorson).

The Avengers ran from 1961 until 1969, screening as one-hour episodes its entire run.

The pilot episode, "Hot Snow," aired on 7 January 1961.

The final episode, "Bizarre," aired on 21 May 1969.

Dark Shadows is an American Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971.

The show depicted the lives, loves, trials and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.

Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role.

Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian (Adamant vanished in 1902 when Edward VII had been on the throne just one year).