Sapphire and Steel

Certain TV shows from one's youth leave lasting impressions. In 1979 I was a sensitive 8 year old who was terrified of Doctor Who and was bullied by my best friend, collapsing in tears anytime anyone was angry or a little bit cross with me. Sat quivering behind the sofa at Doctor Who, and scared of all the death and ruthless loss in Blakes 7, it was all I needed for ITV to pull a number as well. I'm 38 now, and Sapphire And Steel believe you me is still in 2009 a disturbing experience. Victim of the ITV shake up in the early 80's, we only get 6 stories which are however in the main true class. The slight datedness, and a slow pacing that they could never get ...  Read the complete review

This was a strange one! ‘Sapphire and Steel’ was a relatively short- lived Sci-Fi show that took a different approach to the genre. CAST Joanna Lumley.... Sapphire David McCallum....Steel David Collins…Silver Steven O'Shea...Rob Patricia Shakesby ....Anne Shaw David Suchet ....Voiceover in titles Directed by David Foster, Shaun O'Riordan "All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension...Sapphire and Steel have been assigned" Only six stories were made of ...  Read the complete review

“All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension”. So started each episode of Sapphire and Steel, that wonderfully crap ITV sci-fiction attempt from the late 1970s / early 80s. This was ITVs low budget answer to all the Star Trek series that America was churning out to such success at the time. Well, I used to love Sapphire and Steel, simply because it was so different, so baffling, you felt this must be a programme on another intellectual plane from the one the rest of us are on. And make no mistake it was popular at the time, lasting several series, and even getting a comic strip in Look-In magazine (remember ...  Read the complete review

SAPPHIRE & STEEL was first aired in the early 1980s. It starred David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. The concept of the show was an intriguing version of time travel. As a viewer, first you have to envisage time as being like a tunnel. Different parts of history occur in different parts of the tunnel – for example the year 1468 is in one part of the tunnel whereas 2001 is in another. Outside of this tunnel there exist the forces of chaos and destruction, and these forces are always trying to get into the tunnel. The job of our heroes is, surprise surprise, to stop these forces. There is one major problem with this concept, which is that ...  Read the complete review