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 [...]
Archive of posts tagged television
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 [...]
Assignment Five
Assignment Five has it’s detractors. It’s one which, oddly, doesn’t entirely fit in with the rest of the series. As we have seen with the other Assignments, they are all set “today” with an outside force opening a door to a previous era to allow someone or something to come through. In this one, the [...]
Assignment Four
One of the things I noticed when I started writing these posts was that, although Sapphire and Steel were popular shows with my friends and that I watched every episode avidly, some of the season were less memorable than others. Possibly this is because Assignments One, Two and Six were so powerful that they overshadowed [...]
