I am continuing to use the term "episode" here as I have elsewhere on PopApostle, as a separable piece in the continuous narrative of a larger story, whether it be television episode or other media.
Sapphire & Steel aired a total of six serialized stories and were presented without episode titles. The British home video releases refer to each serial as simply "Assignment" or "Adventure" I-VI. At some point, many fans started using names for each serial in order to make them easier to identify in discussions. I have used both the Assignment number and the most recognized fan title of each serial for these studies.
The series itself was conceived by creator Peter J. Hammond under the working title The Time Menders.
Each episode began with the curious preamble, "All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned." (The final televised storyline substituted "Mercury" for "Lead" in the preamble.)
Opening preamble: Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.mp3
Sapphire & Steel 1979-1982 Studies (Television and comic strip serials)
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Assignment 1: Escape Through a Crack in Time Part 1 |
Assignment 1: Escape Through a Crack in Time Part 2 |
Assignment 1: "Escape Through a Crack in Time" Part 3 |
Assignment 1: "Escape Through a Crack in Time" Part 4 |
Assignment 1: Escape Through a Crack in Time Part 5 |
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In an old house full of antiques, a young
brother and sister suddenly find their parents have vanished and
a strange pair of operators appear claiming they will resolve
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Young Helen inadvertently reopens the tear in time. | Sapphire becomes trapped in a room in a painting. | Another elemental, Lead, arrives to assist Sapphire and Steel in their investigation of the Jardine house. | Mr. Jardine reappears to Rob, claiming Sapphire and Steel are the real threat. | ||||||||||
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Assignment 1: "Escape Through a Crack in Time" Part 6 |
"The Beast in the Picture" |
Assignment 2: "The Railway Station" Part 1 |
Assignment 2: "The Railway Station" Part 2 |
Assignment 2: "The Railway Station" Part 3 |
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| TV episode | Look-In (1979) #33-40 | TV episode | TV episode | TV episode | ||||||||||
| The final face-off against time's intrusion of the Jardine house. | A strange being forces an artist to paint pictures with the power to enslave. | Sapphire and Steel find a human psychical investigator already examining their latest assignment into time incursion. | The railway station mystery deepens. | Steel formulates a plan to summon the ghost at the station. | ||||||||||
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Assignment 2: "The Railway Station" Part 4 |
Assignment 2: "The Railway Station" Part 5 |
Assignment 2: "The Railway Station" Part 6 |
Assignment 2: "The Railway Station" Part 7 |
Assignment 2: "The Railway Station" Part 8 |
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| Sapphire and Steel enlist in Tully's concept of holding a séance to engage the spirits at the railway station. | Sapphire may be lost when the séance circle is broken by Steel. | Steel and Tully make mistakes. And where does that leave Sapphire? | Steel formulates a deal to make with the darkness. | Steel's macabre plan comes to fruition. | ||||||||||
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| "Possession" | "Death of an Officer" | "The Mill" | "Bid Time Return" | "Chamber of Horrors" | ||||||||||
| Look-In (1979) #41-45 | Look-In (1979) #46-51 | Look-In (1980) #38-44 | Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981 | Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981 | ||||||||||
| A young deaf girl is given the power to turn her thoughts into reality by a Victorian necklace. | An anchor provides the key to the untimely death of a Napoleonic officer. | When protestors try to stop the demolition of a mill, the spirit of a Victorian slave takes over one of them. | Two stage actors get pulled out of time. | Overnight, an on-loan exhibit of wax figures comes to life. | ||||||||||
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| "Stargazing" | "Finger of Blood" |
Assignment 3: "The Creature's Revenge" Part 1 |
Assignment 3: "The Creature's Revenge" Part 2 |
Assignment 3: "The Creature's Revenge" Part 3 |
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| Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981 | Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981 | TV episode | TV episode | TV episode | ||||||||||
| An observatory in England receives some strange signals from space. | Sapphire and Steel deal with four converging realities around an assassination attempt on the President of the United States. | Sapphire and Steel investigate an apartment out of time. | A mysterious time entity makes itself felt inside the apartment. | The Specialist known as Silver drops in on Sapphire and Steel's assignment to assist them. | ||||||||||
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Assignment 3: "The Creature's Revenge" Part 4 |
Assignment 3: "The Creature's Revenge" Part 5 |
Assignment 3: "The Creature's Revenge" Part 6 |
Assignment 4: "The Man Without a Face" Part 1 |
Assignment 4: "The Man Without a Face" Part 2 |
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| Sapphire, Steel, and Silver enter the urban capsule. | Silver, Steel, and Sapphire confront the changeling. | Sapphire, Steel, and Silver reveal the true threat menacing the time capsule. | Children from the past play in and around an old pawn shop. | Sapphire and Steel dig deeper into the mysterious presence at the second-hand store. | ||||||||||
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Assignment 4: "The Man Without a Face" Part 3 |
Assignment 4: "The Man Without a Face" Part 4 |
Assignment 5: "Dr. McDee Must Die" Part 1 |
Assignment 5: "Dr. McDee Must Die" Part 2 |
Assignment 5: "Dr. McDee Must Die" Part 3 |
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| Sapphire and Steel find the missing apartment dwellers in antique photographs. | Sapphire and Steel become trapped in a photograph. | Wealthy businessman Lord Mullrine holds a costume/history party of the date June 21, 1930. Sapphire and Steel are sent on assignment to crash the celebration. | An evil hides in one of the party guests, but which one? | Circumstances take a dark turn when partygoers start to get murdered. | ||||||||||
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Assignment 5: "Dr. McDee Must Die" Part 4 |
Assignment 5: "Dr. McDee Must Die" Part 5 |
Assignment 5: "Dr. McDee Must Die" Part 6 |
Assignment 6: "The Trap" Part 1 |
Assignment 6: "The Trap" Part 2 |
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| Two murders have been committed at the Mullrine party. Did anyone there have a proper motive? | Sapphire and Steel enlist an ally among the partygoers. | Sapphire and Steel must keep a close eye on the time-play in order to ensure the murder of Dr. McDee takes place as it should. | Sapphire and Steel are summoned to the site of a roadside garage and diner, where they find Silver already awaiting them with a couple of out-of-time patrons. | Sapphire and Steel ponder if they are the reason for the time anomaly. | ||||||||||
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Assignment 6: "The Trap" Part 3 |
Assignment 6: "The Trap" Part 4 |
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| Sapphire and Steel begin to suspect a sinister new angle to their time predicament. | Sapphire and Steel...fail. | |||||||||||||
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