Sapphire And Steel

1979
4.8
13 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (34)

1 Escape Through A Crack In Time: Part 1
7/10/79
Season-only
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.
2 Escape Through A Crack In Time: Part 2
7/12/79
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel determine that Helen's bedroom is the location of a time break caused by the recitation of nursery rhymes.
3 Escape Through A Crack In Time: Part 3
7/17/79
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel investigate the upstairs hallway after Rob sees a pair of ghostly soldiers on the landing.
4 Escape Through A Crack In Time: Part 4
7/19/79
Season-only
Steel's drastic measures to save Sapphire and trap the pool of light prove effective, if extremely dangerous.
5 Escape Through A Crack In Time: Part 5
7/24/79
Season-only
The time break strengthens after a nursery rhyme hidden in a book becomes stuck in Helen's head.
6 Escape Through A Crack In Time: Part 6
7/26/79
Season-only
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.
7 The Railway Station: Part 1
7/31/79
Season-only
For their new assignment, Sapphire and Steel arrive at an abandoned railway station haunted by supernatural figures.
8 The Railway Station: Part 2
8/2/79
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel discover the ghost is a young World War I soldier who died in battle. They begin to suspect the railway station might be a recruitment ground for the dead.
9 The Railway Station: Part 3
8/7/79
Season-only
After Sapphire narrowly saves Steel from meeting the same fate as the doomed fighter pilot, Steel becomes determined to figure out why the ghosts are being recruited at the station.
10 The Railway Station: Part 4
8/9/79
Season-only
Steel continues to taunt the ghost of the solider but pauses when he finds Sapphire and Tully unconscious.
11 The Railway Station: Part 5
10/30/79
Season-only
With Sapphire as a medium, Tully and Steel are able to communicate with the ghost of a woman who was once the soldier's schoolteacher.
12 The Railway Station: Part 6
11/1/79
Season-only
With Sapphire unconscious, Steel is unnerved by the appearance of her ghost on the railway platform with the other spirits.
13 The Railway Station: Part 7
11/6/79
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel awake to find they have been shunted forward in time twelve days. In that time, the darkness has gone and so have all the ghosts with it.
14 The Railway Station: Part 8
11/8/79
Season-only
Sapphire succeeds in making contact with the darkness at a great personal risk.
15 The Creature's Revenge: Part 1
1/6/81
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel receive a puzzling assignment at an apartment complex where time is poised to attack.
16 The Creature's Revenge: Part 2
1/8/81
Season-only
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.
17 The Creature's Revenge: Part 3
1/13/81
Season-only
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.
18 The Creature's Revenge: Part 4
1/15/81
Season-only
Once Silver concocts a way inside the capsule, he transports Sapphire and Steel into the experimental pod from the future.
19 The Creature's Revenge: Part 5
1/20/81
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel subdue the changeling and find where the time source is hiding in the wall.
20 The Creature's Revenge: Part 6
1/22/81
Season-only
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.
21 The Man Without A Face: Part 1
1/27/81
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel investigate an old junk shop where the original landlord and a tenant have disappeared, and meet children from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
22 The Man Without A Face: Part 2
1/29/81
Season-only
Liz demands to see the new landlord's face.
23 The Man Without A Face: Part 3
2/3/81
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel confront the Shape, a being that uses photographs to move between time-zones and to imprison people.
24 The Man Without A Face: Part 4
2/5/81
Season-only
The Shape goes onto the offensive, and captures Sapphire and Steel.
25 Doctor McDee Must Die: Part 1
8/11/81
Season-only
Lord Mullrine hosts a theme party to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his business partnership with the late Dr George McDee.
26 Doctor McDee Must Die: Part 2
8/12/81
Season-only
Time rolls back fifty years, and the late Dr. McDee arrives at the party.
27 Doctor McDee Must Die: Part 3
8/18/81
Season-only
The events of the night of Dr. McDee's death are repeating themselves, and the murderer must be one of the guests.
28 Doctor McDee Must Die: Part 4
8/19/81
Season-only
Lord Mullrine's secretary is safely outside the time distortion, but unable to help.
29 Doctor McDee Must Die: Part 5
8/25/81
Season-only
Sapphire confides in Felix, then grants him powers.
30 Doctor McDee Must Die: Part 6
8/26/81
Season-only
Time is trying to rewrite history, but Sapphire and Steel must ensure that Dr. McDee dies.
31 The Trap: Part 1
8/19/82
Season-only
Sapphire and Steel are called to an abandoned service station where time has stopped.
32 The Trap: Part 2
8/24/82
Season-only
The couple and the musician appear unperturbed by the time anomalies at the cafﾎ.
33 The Trap: Part 3
8/26/82
Season-only
The Transient Beings have escaped entrapment in the past, and plan to use a Time Box to trap Sapphire, Steel and Silver.
34 The Trap: Part 4
8/31/82
Season-only
Sapphire, Steel and Silver are trapped in the petrol station.

About this show

When time itself is threatened by the forces of evil, its time to call on Sapphire And Steel.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
13 reviews
John Feaster
July 23, 2017
One of the best examples of classic British science fantasy you'll find on the internet, though I warn you...it looks as though Google Play has jumbled the episode order for McDee and the Trap. Hopefully this can be worked out soon.
John Fanucchi
April 18, 2014
Just a above average movie
Brian Doane
February 25, 2016
Great BRITISH tv