Sapphire & Steel
Sapphire & Steel

Sapphire & Steel

1979 6 Seasons 34 Episodes ⭐ 7.3 Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 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. Their teenage son Ro

EP 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 recitation of nursery rh

EP 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 landing. Unbeknowns

EP 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 dangerous. Sapphire p

EP 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. Sapphire burns the nurs

EP 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 him back in time to th

EP 1

Assignment II: The Railway Station (1)

For their new assignment, Sapphire and Steel arrive at an abandoned railway station haunted by supernatural figures. Par

EP 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 to suspect the railw

EP 3

Assignment II: The Railway Station (3)

After Sapphire narrowly saves Steel from meeting the same fate as the doomed fighter pilot, Steel becomes determined to

EP 4

Assignment II: The Railway Station (4)

Steel continues to taunt the ghost of the solider but pauses when he finds Sapphire and Tully unconscious. A hallway in

EP 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 once the soldier's

EP 6

Assignment II: The Railway Station (6)

With Sapphire unconscious, Steel is unnerved by the appearance of her ghost on the railway platform with the other spiri

EP 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, the darkness has gone

EP 8

Assignment II: The Railway Station (8)

Sapphire succeeds in making contact with the darkness at a great personal risk. Steel negotiates with it by promising a

EP 1

Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (1)

Sapphire and Steel receive a puzzling assignment at an apartment complex where time is poised to attack. However, their

EP 2

Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (2)

Rothwyn and Eldred, the couple living inside the space capsule, begin to realize they might be in serious danger when th

EP 3

Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (3)

After Sapphire disappears while trying to contact the creature inside the capsule, Steel must figure out where she has g

EP 4

Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (4)

Once Silver concocts a way inside the capsule, he transports Sapphire and Steel into the experimental pod from the futur

EP 5

Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (5)

Sapphire and Steel subdue the changeling and find where the time source is hiding in the wall. Without their technician,

EP 6

Assignment III: The Creatures' Revenge (6)

After Silver's return, the three time agents question the couple from the future about their origins and their knowledge

EP 1

Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (1)

Sapphire and Steel investigate strange happenings at a pawn shop. Children from the past are appearing, but how are thes

EP 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 them to leave or su

EP 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. Sapphire tries to con

EP 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 trap the faceless m

EP 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 what it seems. Sapp

EP 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 something evil hiding i

EP 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 and confusion is takin

EP 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 Sapphire and Steel cannot

EP 5

Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (5)

Sapphire and Steel realize that things must play out exactly as before in 1930 or the human race is doomed, but somethin

EP 6

Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (6)

Sapphire and Steel allow things to unfold to find the point in time when things will be changed. Only then can they ensu

EP 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 woman apparently waitin

EP 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 place. Time shifts

EP 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 man from 1948? The w

EP 4

Assignment VI: The Trap (4)

Beings from the past that are like Sapphire and Steel but working for a higher power are revealed and the trap is sprung

Popular Cast

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