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Pluto2 wrote: I'd also like to point out that some of the Virgin stories with Benny suggest Blake's 7 are simultaneously a TV series and real. So...it's weird.

I've done a quick search on the Discontinuity Guide website, and it seems that the only references to Blake's 7 are in Cold Fusion, where Tegan says she has seen transmats on the TV show before; and a short story in The Dead Men Diaries where one character like Blake's 7 and names his cat after Servalan.

The only same universe reference is a weak one at best, where in Prisoner of the Daleks a character is said to be from Gauda Prime, which shares a name with a planet in Blake's 7. There are many stories that use the names of planets from other series, so giving taking this reference as explicit proof that Blake's 7 and Doctor Who share the same universe is a bit far fetched.

From these mentions it lends credence to what I already thought; that Blake's 7 is just a TV show in Doctor Who, and in the Kaldor City stories a character from Blake's 7 makes a licensed appearance.