Ok, so it wasn't quite Dr Who, but it was probably the second most successful British sci-fi series ever. Blake's 7 was an excellent, quite often over-the-top, camp space opera riding on the crest of Star Wars...
In the third century of the second calendar, a corrupt galactic federation, with Earth at its center, drugs its billions of citizens into placid submission. A rebel named Roj Blake, who once tried to organize...