This is (essentially) a test of embedding a YouTube video, as I'd like to feature some videos of the family [oh, can't you wait?]
However, a little background on the clip: Blake's 7 was a late '70's BBC science fiction show that featured a gang of 7 escaped criminals (political prisoners, thieves, smugglers) who fought the evil Federation. Their leader was the idealistic Blake; another centerpiece of the show was the sociopath Avon.
After the second season the actor playing Blake left, his character officially missing in the context of the show. Avon took over and much of the next two years had the underlying goal of locating and reuniting with Blake.
This is the last few minutes of the show's final episode, in which Avon has finally found Blake - but believes him to be a traitor. .
[When I was ten or twelve I talked my folks into letting me watch the Super Bowl and getting the living room to myself, when in reality it was to watch this very episode broadcast on the local PBS station.
If memory serves, the Bills lost that SuperBowl.]
Broadcast on a December night it lead to several Christmas suicides, from what I understand
They certainly turned the tables on the conventional 'happy ending' . .
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