Maloney assembled the rest of his production team and engaged Roger Murray-Leach, with whom he had worked on the Doctor Who serials Planet of Evil, The Deadly Assassin and The Talons of Weng-Chiang, as production designer.
Aware that Star Wars would be released in United Kingdom cinemas around the time of Blake's 7s planned television debut, Scoones spent the budget he had been allocated for the entire series on Space Fall, the first episode to be recorded.