Ring a ring of roses A pocket full of posies Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down – Traditional English Nursery Rhyme Sapphire and Steel are summoned to a condemned warehouse in the City area of London. There is a team in the warehouse transcribing documents and cataloguing artefacts found beneath the land the warehouse sits [...]
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1.2 – Daisy Chain
A bit of a change for our heroes this time. Sapphire and Steel arrive at a suburban home to deal with an incursion by time. They meet a normal family – son on holiday from university; daughter still at school and coming into her womanhood; and their widowed mother. All seems to be ordinary, but [...]
1.1 – The Passenger
This is a choo-choo train Puffing down the track. Now it’s going forward. Now it’s going back. In this, the first outing for David Warner and Susannah Harker, our eponymous heroes meet on a train. Their “target” is Philip Burgess, a steam train enthusiast and antique book seller. While investigating, they realise that each of [...]
Big Finish – Audio Productions
A few months ago, I finished the series of posts on the TV series of Sapphire & Steel. If you will recall, they ended in 1982 and were consigned to the television history books. It’s worth noting that although it was somewhat different from most other shows of the time, UK television was pushing the [...]
Aftermath
Well, it’s taken me around 10 months to write up these posts and we’re now at the end of the television series. This series was a big part of my childhood and pretty much spoiled me for “normal” sci-fi or horror. Not for me the joys of “pew pew lasers!” shows or simple non-psychological horror. [...]
Assignment Six
So here we are, after almost a year we are now at the final episode of Sapphire and Steel. I really thought that this wouldn’t take me all that long to do. For such an inventive television series, six series seems very short. Many other shows ran on for much longer and stand the test [...]
