
Sapphire & Steel
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 conce...
Sapphire & Steel
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. In 2004, Sapphire and Steel returned in a series of audio dramas starring David Warner and Susannah Harker.
Sapphire & Steel
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 conce...

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Episode 1: Counting Out Time
Reuniting the series stars after nearly thirty years, this documentary features Joanna Lumley and Da...
Escape Through A Crack in Time None of the stories had on-screen 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
Episode 1: Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (1)
On an ordinary evening, a mother and father sing nursery rhymes to their daughter Helen before bed....
Episode 2: Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (2)
Sapphire and Steel determine that Helen's bedroom is the location of a time break caused by the reci...
Episode 3: Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (3)
Sapphire and Steel investigate the upstairs hallway after Rob sees a pair of ghostly soldiers on the...
Episode 4: Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (4)
Steel's drastic measures to save Sapphire and trap the pool of light prove effective, if extremely d...
Episode 5: Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (5)
The time break strengthens after a nursery rhyme hidden in a book becomes stuck in Helen's head. Sap...
Episode 6: Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (6)
Lured by a vision of his father, Rob walks into a trap in the basement. A pool of light has taken hi...
The Railway Station None of the stories had on-screen 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
Episode 1: Assignment II: The Railway Station (1)
For their new assignment, Sapphire and Steel arrive at an abandoned railway station haunted by super...
Episode 2: Assignment II: The Railway Station (2)
Sapphire and Steel discover the ghost is a young World War I soldier who died in battle. They begin...
Episode 3: Assignment II: The Railway Station (3)
After Sapphire narrowly saves Steel from meeting the same fate as the doomed fighter pilot, Steel be...
Episode 4: Assignment II: The Railway Station (4)
Steel continues to taunt the ghost of the solider but pauses when he finds Sapphire and Tully uncons...
Episode 5: Assignment II: The Railway Station (5)
With Sapphire as a medium, Tully and Steel are able to communicate with the ghost of a woman who was...
Episode 6: Assignment II: The Railway Station (6)
With Sapphire unconscious, Steel is unnerved by the appearance of her ghost on the railway platform...
Episode 7: Assignment II: The Railway Station (7)
Sapphire and Steel awake to find they have been shunted forward in time twelve days. In that time, t...
Episode 8: Assignment II: The Railway Station (8)
Sapphire succeeds in making contact with the darkness at a great personal risk. Steel negotiates wit...
The Creature's Revenge None of the stories had on-screen 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
Episode 1: Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (1)
Sapphire and Steel receive a puzzling assignment at an apartment complex where time is poised to att...
Episode 2: Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (2)
Rothwyn and Eldred, the couple living inside the space capsule, begin to realize they might be in se...
Episode 3: Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (3)
After Sapphire disappears while trying to contact the creature inside the capsule, Steel must figure...
Episode 4: Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (4)
Once Silver concocts a way inside the capsule, he transports Sapphire and Steel into the experimenta...
Episode 5: Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (5)
Sapphire and Steel subdue the changeling and find where the time source is hiding in the wall. Witho...
Episode 6: Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (6)
The Man Without a Face None of the stories had on-screen 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
Episode 1: Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (1)
Sapphire and Steel investigate strange happenings at a pawn shop. Children from the past are appeari...
Episode 2: Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (2)
Who is the new Landlord? He confronts Sapphire and Steel but his face is not what it seems. He warns...
Episode 3: Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (3)
The missing shop owner and missing former roommate of the tenant are found in an unexpected place. S...
Episode 4: Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (4)
Trapped Sapphire and Steel must use their wits and the help of the tenant to escape their prison and...
Dr McDee Must Die None of the stories had on-screen 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
Episode 1: Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (1)
A wealthy business man holds a party in a 1930s period reconstruction for his guests, but all is not...
Episode 2: Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (2)
A game of hide and seek is played before dinner but one of the guests will be murdered, there is som...
Episode 3: Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (3)
The party guests begin to realise that they are trapped, but their memories are beginning to fail an...
Episode 4: Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (4)
Two of the party guests are dead. Who will be next? This is no traditional murder mystery, and Sapph...
Episode 5: Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (5)
Lord Arthur Mullrine organises a party to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary since his business part...
Episode 6: Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (6)
Lord Arthur Mullrine organises a party to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary since his business part...
The Trap None of the stories had on-screen 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
Episode 1: Assignment VI: The Trap (1)
A roadside garage in 1982 is seemingly stuck at 8:54pm, A car from 1948 appears with a man and a wom...
Episode 2: Assignment VI: The Trap (2)
An encounter with a man from 1925 causes Sapphire, Steel and Silver to question why they are in this...
Episode 3: Assignment VI: The Trap (3)
Who is the mysterious Johnny Jack from 1957 and what is his connection to the man from 1925 and the...
Episode 4: Assignment VI: The Trap (4)
Beings from the past that are like Sapphire and Steel but working for a higher power are revealed an...
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