The BEST episodes of Sapphire and Steel
Every episode of Sapphire and Steel ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Sapphire and Steel!
Complex, involved science-fiction series about a special force of interdimensional operatives whose task is to protect the universe from evil forces trying to gain a foothold by disrupting the timeline. The strange energy beings are assigned to cases, when and where needed, and materialise on Earth as humans, each with specialist abilities to ascertain and then solve the problems. The mysteries encountered by Sapphire, Steel and their colleagues include people trapped in photographs, ghosts lost in time, and a dinner party of guests who are all long-dead. Their most-dangerous challenge, innocuous-seeming at first, is a petrol station whose time-line is repeating endlessly - and which turns out to be a major hazard, set by unknown forces, to trap Sapphire and Steel in a closed time-loop forever...
#1 - Assignment I: Escape Through a Crack in Time (6)
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/26/1979
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. Sapphire and Steel fear the worst when they discover that all three pools of light are there in the trap with Rob. However, Steel figures out that the creature that controls the pools of light has made a mistake and decides to gain the upper hand by using Helen as bait. Sapphire objects but follows through with the plan because it is their last chance to save Rob, bring back his parents, and return ...
#2 - Assignment I: Escape Through a Crack in Time (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/12/1979
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 inside from breaking loose. Rob begins to distrust the mysterious agents and sees a chance for escape when a policeman finally arrives in the morning. Sapphire is one step ahead of him, however, and traps the policeman in a time loop to prevent interference.
#3 - Assignment I: Escape Through a Crack in Time (3)
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/17/1979
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 wait in a portrait at the top of the stairs. Sapphire walks right into the trap and disappears from the house. Only faintly able to communicate with Steel and Rob, Sapphire tells them she is stuck in a freezing cottage with the sensation that something sinister is there with her. Steel and Rob discover that Sapphire is trapped in the portrait and must work quickly to avoid losing her.
#4 - Assignment I: Escape Through a Crack in Time (4)
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/19/1979
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 Steel's recovery. She also enlists Rob and Helen's help in removing all the objects in the house that could become hiding places for other pools of light. Sapphire and Steel welcome the arrival of fellow agent Lead, a gentle giant with a huge personality to match his huge stature.
#5 - Assignment I: Escape Through a Crack in Time (5)
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/24/1979
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 spreading. The kitchen is left a windblown mess and Helen and Rob help Sapphire with the clean-up effort while Lead and Steel keep watch upstairs. Everything takes a turn for the worse when two more pools of light escape from the bedroom and Rob suddenly goes missing.
#6 - Assignment VI: The Trap (1)
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/19/1982
A roadside garage in 1982 is seemingly stuck at 8:54pm, A car from 1948 appears with a man and a woman apparently waiting to return to 1948. Sapphire, Steel and Silver investigate, then time shifts forward to 9:04pm.
#7 - Assignment VI: The Trap (2)
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/24/1982
An encounter with a man from 1925 causes Sapphire, Steel and Silver to question why they are in this place. Time shifts forwards 20 minutes and footsteps are heard outside. Steel goes out to investigate. A stranger arrives.
#8 - Assignment VI: The Trap (3)
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/1982
Who is the mysterious Johnny Jack from 1957 and what is his connection to the man from 1925 and the man from 1948? The woman from 1948 wants to talk to Sapphire, Steel and Silver. Silver reveals that they are trapped.
#9 - Assignment VI: The Trap (4)
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/31/1982
Beings from the past that are like Sapphire and Steel but working for a higher power are revealed and the trap is sprung, a deception is underway but for who?
#10 - Assignment I: Escape Through a Crack in Time (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/1979
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 to find that his parents have vanished. Left alone with Helen and no neighbours nearby, Rob calls the police for help. But a pair of strange, time-traveling agents named Sapphire and Steel arrive instead and inform Rob that they are his only hope in getting his parents back.
#11 - Assignment III: The Creature's Revenge (5)
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/20/1981
Sapphire and Steel subdue the changeling and find where the time source is hiding in the wall. Without their technician, however, they have no way to deconstruct the wall and defeat the creature hidden inside. Steel's decision to resort to drastic measures pays off when the couple reappear in the capsule and the changeling becomes an infant again. But the creature inside the wall still thrives and presents a larger threat than anyone could have imagined.
#12 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (6)
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/1981
Lord Arthur Mullrine organises a party to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary since his business partnership began with the late Dr George McDee. During the party, time rolls back fifty years and guests who were not alive at that time are systematically murdered. The late Doctor McDee arrives at the party and Sapphire and Steel realise that the events of the night of his death are beginning to recreate themselves. It transpires that McDee had invented a lethal virus that could destroy all humanity. However, before this could happen he was shot by a jealous lover. Time has occupied the body of the lover and is attempting to arrange events such that McDee survives to accidentally unleash the virus. Sapphire and Steel ensure that he is, indeed, killed by the lover and his body and the virus are consumed in a fire.
#13 - Assignment III: The Creature's Revenge (6)
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/22/1981
After Silver's return, the three time agents question the couple from the future about their origins and their knowledge about the machine that transported them through time. The couple reveals some horrifying information about the future that directly relates to the creature inside the wall. Now with an understanding of the creature's motivation, Sapphire and Steel must prevent the creature's escape and manipulate time in order to save all of humanity.
#14 - Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/1981
Sapphire and Steel investigate strange happenings at a pawn shop. Children from the past are appearing, but how are these children connected to old photographs? What does the single tenant in the upstairs room know?
#15 - Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/29/1981
Who is the new Landlord? He confronts Sapphire and Steel but his face is not what it seems. He warns them to leave or suffer the same fate as the missing shop owner.
#16 - Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (3)
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/1981
The missing shop owner and missing former roommate of the tenant are found in an unexpected place. Sapphire tries to contact the missing roommate. The faceless man intervenes.
#17 - Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face (4)
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/1981
Trapped Sapphire and Steel must use their wits and the help of the tenant to escape their prison and trap the faceless man and keep him from causing more harm.
#18 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/11/1981
A wealthy business man holds a party in a 1930s period reconstruction for his guests, but all is not what it seems. Sapphire and Steel invite themselves to investigate.
#19 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/12/1981
A game of hide and seek is played before dinner but one of the guests will be murdered, there is something evil hiding in one of the guests but which one?
#20 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (3)
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/18/1981
The party guests begin to realize that they are trapped, but their memories are beginning to fail and confusion is taking over. Then there is another death. But is there really?
#21 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (4)
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/19/1981
Two of the party guests are dead. Who will be next? This is no traditional murder mystery, and Sapphire and Steel cannot agree on who would have a motive to commit this crime.
#23 - Assignment III: The Creature's Revenge (4)
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/1981
Once Silver concocts a way inside the capsule, he transports Sapphire and Steel into the experimental pod from the future. The couple are no where to be found but Sapphire, Steel, and Silver come face-to-face with the adult-sized infant. Sapphire deciphers that the overgrown baby is a changeling controlled by time. The changeling senses that the three time agents are a threat and the force controlling the changeling commands that he destroy them.
#24 - Assignment III: The Creature's Revenge (3)
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/1981
After Sapphire disappears while trying to contact the creature inside the capsule, Steel must figure out where she has gone and how to proceed with the investigation. Luckily, technology specialist Silver arrives to lend a hand with getting inside the capsule. Rothwyn and Eldred discover their child has gone missing and are at a loss for what to do next. Meanwhile, their adult-sized infant wanders the capsule under the control of the creature hidden inside the wall.
#25 - Assignment III: The Creature's Revenge (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/1981
Rothwyn and Eldred, the couple living inside the space capsule, begin to realize they might be in serious danger when they cannot make contact with fellow study groups or with their superiors. The evil creature inside the capsule begins an attack by using time to transform the couple's infant into a grown man. As Sapphire and Steel deepen their investigation, Sapphire discovers that the mechanism which transported the capsule is no ordinary machine.