Sapphire & Steel

Overview

Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read.

None of the stories had onscreen titles, or any official titles assigned by the writers. The Region 1 Complete Series DVD release gives the titles "Escape Through a Crack in Time", "The Railway Station", "The Creature's Revenge", "The Man Without a Face", "Dr. McDee Must Die" and "The Trap", respectively. These titles have often been cited as having been created by science fiction magazine Time Screen.

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Episodes

S01E01 Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (1)

July 10, 1979 25 min
On an ordinary evening, a mother and father sing nursery rhymes to their daughter Helen before bed. Their teenage son Robert becomes alarmed when all the clocks in the house stop working. He hurries upstairs...

S01E02 Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (2)

July 12, 1979 25 min
Sapphire and Steel determine that Helen's bedroom is the location of a time break caused by the recitation of nursery rhymes. After narrowly avoiding a disaster, Steel boards up Helen's door to prevent the creatures...

S01E03 Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (3)

July 17, 1979 25 min
Sapphire and Steel investigate the upstairs hallway after Rob sees a pair of ghostly soldiers on the landing. Unbeknownst to them, a living pool of light has escaped from Helen's room and now lies in...

S01E04 Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (4)

July 19, 1979 25 min
Steel's drastic measures to save Sapphire and trap the pool of light prove effective, if extremely dangerous. Sapphire places the pool of light in a freezer to keep it from escaping again and tends to...

S01E05 Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (5)

July 24, 1979 25 min
The time break strengthens after a nursery rhyme hidden in a book becomes stuck in Helen's head. Sapphire burns the nursery rhyme book and Steel and Lead barely succeed in stopping the time break from...

S01E06 Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (6)

July 26, 1979 25 min
Lured by a vision of his father, Rob walks into a trap in the basement. A pool of light has taken him back in time to the 1700s when the house was first being built....

Cast

Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley
Sapphire
David McCallum
David McCallum
Steel
David Collings
David Collings
Silver
Christopher Fairbank
Christopher Fairbank
Johnny Jack

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