The BEST seasons of Sapphire and Steel
Every season of Sapphire and Steel ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons 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 II: The Railway Station
First Aired 7/30/1979
In an abandoned railway station, parapsychologist George Tully conducts an investigation, as two operators, Sapphire and Steel arrive for an investigation of their own. A malevolent, growing force identifying itself as the Darkness is feeding on the resentment of the dead, using as a focus Private Sam Pearce, the apparition of a World War I soldier shot and killed eleven minutes after the armistice had been signed at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The Darkness 'recruits' other resentful shades from the past who also died unfairly as a result of coming or completed wars. Sapphire and Steel must decide if the life of one living human is worth the price of the danger presented by the growing Darkness.
#2 - Assignment VI: The Trap
First Aired 8/18/1982
At an abandoned service station and its adjoining café, time has stopped. Operator Silver has arrived first assessing the situation. Sapphire and Steel remain uncertain as to exactly what they are supposed to be investigating. The key may lie in two humans in the café who claim to be from 1948, a service station worker, and a travelling performer, but something envious and sinister gets closer before a trap is sprung.
#3 - Assignment IV: The Man Without a Face
First Aired 1/27/1981
Phantom children with sepia-toned skin play in the back yard of an aging apartment building and its adjoining antiques shop which is currently closed. Both the landlord Mr Williamson and a tenant named Ruth have mysteriously disappeared. A man without a face in cahoots with the children, appears on the stairs. An evil presence has emerged from a photograph; something which has appeared in every photograph ever taken anywhere in the world, and is powerful enough to turn Sapphire and Steel into literal two-dimensional photographs of themselves.
#4 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die
First Aired 8/10/1981
Wealthy industrialist Lord Mullrine hosts a party at his mansion where he and the guests reenact the 1930s. The occasion is to celebrate fifty years since his company was founded with the late virologist Dr George McDee. Mullrine has even gone so far as to have every room in the house, with the exception of his private office, put back to its original style. Sapphire and Steel arrive under an alias, then, time itself starts to interfere. McDee turns up, alongsidr other anachronisms, and then, one by one, guests begin to be murdered — their bodies vanishing. Secrets and lies involving McDee and a marital affair from fifty years before are resurfacing, Time is playing a deadly game, and only Sapphire and Steel can end it.
#5 - Assignment III: The Creature's Revenge
First Aired 1/6/1981
Rothwyn and Eldred, a couple living in a modern apartment with a baby, are from the 35th Century, the apartment is their time capsule, which is situated and cloaked on the roof of a present-day tower block; in a test to live as 20th century humans. But trouble starts when the couple discover that they can neither contact their controllers in the future nor two other similar time capsules in the present day. The biomechanical system that runs the capsule has an agenda of its own, one of vengeance. This time, Sapphire and Steel have help in the form of Silver, an inter-dimensional operator.
#6 - Assignment I: Escape Through a Crack in Time
First Aired 7/9/1979
In an old house filled with old antiques, a nursery rhyme ("Ring a Ring o' Roses") read aloud causes a time fracture that takes away the parents of youngsters Rob and Helen. As Rob (Steven O'Shea), Helen's older brother, tries to call the police, two mysterious strangers calling themselves Sapphire and Steel arrive to fix the problem. Lead also arrives to provide assistance to Steel when the ghosts of the time corridor incapacitate him.