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| description = Darrow appeared in [[broadwcast:Doctor Who and the Silurians|Doctor Who and the Silurians]] and [[broadwcast:Time Lash|Time Lash]].
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He was ruggedly handsome with a smooth, sonorous voice — Mary Ridge, Blake's 7 director, called him "Blint" because she saw him as a combination of Burt Lancaster and Clint Eastwood.
 
He was ruggedly handsome with a smooth, sonorous voice — Mary Ridge, Blake's 7 director, called him "Blint" because she saw him as a combination of Burt Lancaster and Clint Eastwood.
  
He enjoyed a particularly strong on-screen chemistry with Jacqueline Pearce (obituary, Sept 20, 2018) who played his villainous arch-enemy Servalan. "Technically, he was quite brilliant and I relied on that," she said.
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He enjoyed a particularly strong on-screen chemistry with Jacqueline Pearce ([[Jacqueline Pearce|obituary, Sept 20, 2018]]) who played his villainous arch-enemy Servalan. "Technically, he was quite brilliant and I relied on that," she said.
  
 
Shot on a low budget that he quipped was "the equivalent of a coffee break for Star Trek," Blake's 7 was sometimes criticised for its production values and dodgy special effects. Yet it ran for four series between 1978 and 1981 and at its peak attracted more than ten million viewers. Second as the nation's favourite TV sci-fi series only to Doctor Who — in which Darrow twice guest-starred — Blake's 7 subsequently found a new cult audience with the advent of You-tube and the box-set era.
 
Shot on a low budget that he quipped was "the equivalent of a coffee break for Star Trek," Blake's 7 was sometimes criticised for its production values and dodgy special effects. Yet it ran for four series between 1978 and 1981 and at its peak attracted more than ten million viewers. Second as the nation's favourite TV sci-fi series only to Doctor Who — in which Darrow twice guest-starred — Blake's 7 subsequently found a new cult audience with the advent of You-tube and the box-set era.

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