I'm a 66 year old American man and I have always liked good science fiction including The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, etc... I only discovered Sapphire and Steel as I was looking through the DVDs in a public library of St.Louis Missouri in 2015. I liked them so much and I am now enjoying them for a second go around. As a jazz and rock lead trumpet player I had to be quick on my feet with sight reading and improvisation so I appreciate stories with low budgets but great story telling along with great acting.
The actor who portrayed Silver, David Collings, passed away earlier this year. What a delight he was in this role. What a wonderful show; why can't this be re-booted for the 21st-century audiences. It would have to be better than most of what is on TV at this time!
@SALTY ARMY LONDON REGIMENT do you really think an updated version of sapphire and Steele would be to P C ? Can we not do anything of old without offending the slightest of people? That's such a great shame. I guess some things you cannot resurrect because of this lunacy. Oct 2020 the alternative dimension. 🌈🌎🌈🌎😎😎😥😥😎😎👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Because reboots currently end up a political box ticking mess where the writers totally ignore what made the original successful in their desire to push an agenda.
This is fantastic. Sapphire and Steel is probably one of the best shows ever made. Despite the low budget, the writing, acting and directing was superb. It is intelligent, original and nothing else has ever come close for me. Thanks for posting it here.
It is only my personal opinion but I believe Sapphire & Steel would have been a serious rival for any other Sci-fi tv series with a bigger budget. For me it is Brilliant, inspiring and wonderful tv even today. It could only ever have been David & Joanna in my opinion. Thank you.
Each assignment was gripping. A very English take on a timeless situation. Sapphire and Steel provides engagement in 2022. And it will endure. A classic. Thanks so much for posting
That show scared the bejaziz out of me as a kid. In a good way. I was devastated when it ended with them locked in that room. I bought the complete series years later as an adult to re-watch, and loved it all: but couldn't bring myself to watch that last story. Wonderful hearing that the cast had a nice time making it. Thank you, all involved, for the wonderful memories and not talking-down to children ...
I totally agree. This ip is absolutely ripe for a reimagining now! Would love to see Joanna Lumley involved too somehow. Wish someone would secure the rights.
Joanna lumley is part of our true English national heritage and has been for decades. A great actress with a phenomenal career. She even knows how to handle politicians aswell. Oct 2020 .👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍😎🇬🇧😎😁
I absolutely loved this show as a kid. It was intelligent, unique, atmospheric, with two great actors. Low budget made up for with great stories, script and acting. Nowadays programmes overuse special effects to replace actual story telling. It's like modern music all the fanfare but no substance/talent/quality.
@@garypayne4284 It’s fascinating how children may surprisingly handle horror well enough. Certainly thanks to what British sci-fi horror like Sapphire & Steel and classic Doctor Who could most uniquely master for their time.
If Hitchcock had done a Science Fiction tv. series - but with really low budget... this could have been it. I love that the budget forced it to be so minimal. This series was a perfect example of 'Less is more'...
As a chemist, I have access to a periodic table... Back in 1979 I went looking for a couple of cis- and then trans-uranic elements ; Saphire and Steel... that was over 40 years ago ... still looking
I remember this show. Especially the one where the villain manipulates photographs. One particular scene was so horrifying that it still gives me the creeps years later.
Always enjoyed this programme as a kid, it's good to see the writers and actors are proud of it still, it's a pity when you get people down the line distancing themselves and criticising earlier work, we need more weirdness, imagination, and ideas in modern TV, all a bit predictable and obvious these days.
I was reading a book by Mark Fisher, where he was talking about how popular culture used to inspire and challenge people. Sapphire and Steel probably wouldn't even get commissioned for broadcast mainstream UK TV these days. At 7pm on BBC1 through the week we get the One Show, where I think the One in the title is the amount of working neurons you need to watch it.
This was such a great show! I have it on DVD. I need to watch it all again. The whole concept was fantastic. Time, as an entity, trying to break into our world and wreak havoc. I thought a remake was planned. I hope not though. It could never live up to the style and intensity of this. Remakes rarely do. Joanna Lumley was outstanding. So was David McCallum.
The DVD set of this show that I have was money well spent. From time to time I revisit all the assignments. I know all the lines, scenes, shots. Still I re-watch with the same enthusiasm.
This series terrified me as a kid. After watching the one set in the railway station (was 8 at the time), I refused to go to sleep with the light off for two years afterwards as I could swear I saw the darkness creeping over the walls of my bedroom!
Yeah I always remember that particular episode. I was a similar age at the time. The series always had that eery feel to it. The First World War soldier on the railway station was a scary episode.
Definately! I think another reason I recall it so well is that a strike at ITV at the time cut half way through it. When the strike was over, they started it again from episode 1. Probably the most creepiest thing I'd ever watched as a kid!
Actually it is quite a good series. Three series all in all with Susannah Harker as Sapphire in series 1 and 2 and David Warner as Steel. Anna Skellern as Sapphire in series 3. I'd have loved to see this as a TV show with Harker and Warner.
@@timeflight silver appears in a few audios played by his original actor David Collings, unfortunately I haven't listened to any of them myself but I'm hoping to get them
A brilliant and compelling series, and a lovely documentary. I missed a chance to see Joanna Lumley at an open evening, and this is one series I would've loved to have asked her about - I'm glad this exists, to answer those questions. Unreal that it's as old as it is now and yet still manages to feel exactly the same as it did when I watched it as a kid.
I loved this show as a child, I read a lot of horror and sci fi books from the adult library as a kid, I just preferred complex adult stories to childrens which seemed rubbish by comparison. Ended up with a huge interest as a writer as I got older! Anyway, last year me and the girlfriend watched every episode on youtube, it was a fabulous, intricate and very dark show, and such a shame they never made any more. Please David and Joanna, make another !
@@paulhunter1525 A successfully new Sapphire & Steel series would be an even more daunting task than it was to finally revive Doctor Who. That says a lot. But with the right people in charge, it would be promising.
I quite agree with what they said about how Sapphire & Steel was especially effective thanks to its low budget effects. CGI may become a burden for many shows and films. The acting can of course be the best special effect of all and both David and Joanna were blessed with that much in abundance.
Joanna lumley is the epitome of pure class, beauty beyond measure a smile to die for and a voice that is... Dreamy sexy beyond measure and her personality, she can talk to anyone and win them over, nuff said about this lovely unique English lady a true treasure xx❤️🇬🇧
I can believe they haven't finished it in a podcast or radio show of some sort, I just watched it again for the 1st time in 40 years or something and wow what an amazing show!
Just watched this and had a thought; you could have Sapphire and Steel still trapped and than one of the transuranics (they’re called transuranium in science) - someone like Neptunium (in the form of a young woman with silver-white hair and silver eyes, as Neptunium is silver in colour) come and rescue them as she has a young girl’s crush on Steel and the transuranics are younger elements and so less stable (read highly emotional).
David McCallum was in an episode of The Outer Limits in 1963 called The Forms of Things Unknown. It had certain elements that could have been used in Sapphire and Steel which appeared 16 years later. McCallum was this strange guy who you knew very little about and had built a time machine made up of hundreds of clocks. It had the power to "tilt" time and bring the dead back to life, which it did. Like Sapphire and Steel, when this episode was broadcasted it caused confusion and fear among the viewers. ⌚
Mark Gatiss directed a ghost story for Christmas this year. It was low budget and relied on the script and the acting. I think he or someone like him would be able to successfully do a reboot as he understands atmosphere and minimalism.
Oh wow where do i start? Well Joanna lumley is just Fantastic and as timeless as sapphire and steel is. I’ve now watched this many times the first time( with my mum ) on the telly when it was first shown and you tube. 2021. Sci fi isn’t really my thing but sas is
I love the series Sapphire and Steel but ending of the final adventure was unfortunate. I have been rewatching it and think I have thought of a way to rescue sapphire and steal from trapped existence and it's simple to the element Quartz could rescue them. As quartzite which has a high oscillation point that why it's used for watches. Could help to breach the gap between the elements and save them. What do you think?
no tv has ever come close to the chills and pure psychological horror that came from it, the man with no face terrifed me and since then i still look at old pics and try find people whos faces are turned,
This show is fabulous for many reasons, but also because the premise is so brilliant. In 2000AD comic, they had a great serial called Indigo Prime that began in 1986, where various pairs of operatives would fix inter-dimensional screw-ups. Even Quantum Leap could be said to have been cut from the same kind of cloth. Can anyone think of any other similar shows/stories?
Yeah, but in that series the main character was jumping into other peoples bodies. Without any control as to time, expect seem stuck between 1950s into 1970s
I loved S& S when I was a kid of 10 I remember watching it with mum & dad -& I was forever trying to explain what was going on because she hadnt a clue
Great to see a documentary about one of my favourite shows! S&S had everything, great actors, atmospheric plots, great story telling, without relying on special effects-haunting stories, the like of which we will probably never see again on modern day television!!
Also remember that ATV had lost their franchise by the end of 1981, so although the final adventure was broadcast in Central Television's first year: the reorganisation of the channel probably put paid to more adventures being made as well.
The endings for Sapphire & Steel and Blake's 7 (at least on TV, as opposed to what Big Finish would make possible) were consequently all the more impactful and a most interesting change from most other sci-fi shows of the 20th century. But agreeably they could have ended somewhat differently.
Marvelous insight into a series of which I was only lately reminded. Not only does it get better with...Time...but when I'm asked what it's all about I can only respond, "I simply can't answer." It being "word-heavy" may indeed be its greatest blessing.
For me the most memorable part David played was in Colditz. In the last two episodes you could see that his character was changing - you could see that he knew it was all coming to an end. And in the very final scene, as they are all leaving the camp, he and Jack Hedley are the last two standing at the door. You could see in David's whole body language that he was full of memories and full of regret, because he knew that for his character, the best and most creative part of his life was now over. It was back to Britain and working in a biscuit factory, or whatever.
A very enjoyable program, it came out when I was 19, I didn't have a clue what was going on at that time, and I've just watched it again, loved the acting. The only thing that bothers me is that Sapphire and Steel aren't actually elements!
im 55 i rember this shown on thursday at 20.00 hrs for 1 hour the premise brilliant pj hammond great conept omg the cast joanna lumley and david maccullum god bless david rest in time
the WW1 soldier episodes TOTALLY creeped me out. I would've been 7 or 8 so maybe i shouldn't have been watching lol but Joanna Lumley - well. Shes truly something else. I'm even prepared to forgive her for Absolutely (not) Fabulous.
Wonderful series, - I was introduced to it in the very early nineties through my Mum who loved and still loves the series - she bought, when I was a kid, Adventure Six - and that was my introduction to this weird and wonderful series which to this day is still just as powerful
Sapphire & Steel is a timelessly great SF show. I'm so glad that I finally got around to viewing it in recent years thanks to UA-cam. Although I haven't heard it yet, I'm also glad that it now has a Big Finish audio continuation, even without the original stars. It's an SF classic that reminds us of the appropriated horror-thriller genre that 70s & early 80s British TV did so well. Thank you very much for posting this documentary.
Brilliant example of the delightful and intellectually weird British psyche from the 1970s. Very unique. We shall never see the like again, TV doesn’t take chances anymore.
Tea time must see viewing, one of those programs where it all came together, sci-fi treated perfectly with quality scripts and top notch actors... but a wee budget... but that made them work harder so it all paid off in the end. Also loved the Big Finish audio adventures which followed straight on from the end of the TV series. Spoiler alert... Silver saved them from the motorway service station they were trapped in!
I'm a 66 year old American man and I have always liked good science fiction including The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, etc... I only discovered Sapphire and Steel as I was looking through the DVDs in a public library of St.Louis Missouri in 2015. I liked them so much and I am now enjoying them for a second go around. As a jazz and rock lead trumpet player I had to be quick on my feet with sight reading and improvisation so I appreciate stories with low budgets but great story telling along with great acting.
Joanna, the sexiest voice in history!
I've adored Sapphire and Steel for forty years. With rare exception, there's nothing made now so intelligent, enigmatic, poetic, and sinister.
Intelligent, enigmatic, poetic, and sinister describes me perfectly
@@allme2547 and impotent?
@@xr6lad I wish! Would certainly make life less complicated lol
so sad the wonderful actor David Collings who played 'Silver' died on first day of UK lockdown: 23rd March 2020. He's now journeyed out there ...
Joanna Lumley really has quite a striking look, even in her later years.
2020 and I still say this is one of the best TV shows EVER made.
I was no child when this came on but the Railway Station one still gives me the the shivers when I here that sound, even now.
I thought david mcallum was long dead - I couldnt believe it (in the nicest possible way ) that he was still alive
With the soldiers .....
That was the episode I think introduced me to Sapphire and Steel, or at least the one I remember first, as a small child, sort of scared me...
The actor who portrayed Silver, David Collings, passed away earlier this year. What a delight he was in this role. What a wonderful show; why can't this be re-booted for the 21st-century audiences. It would have to be better than most of what is on TV at this time!
@SALTY ARMY LONDON REGIMENT do you really think an updated version of sapphire and Steele would be to P C ? Can we not do anything of old without offending the slightest of people? That's such a great shame. I guess some things you cannot resurrect because of this lunacy. Oct 2020 the alternative dimension. 🌈🌎🌈🌎😎😎😥😥😎😎👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Because reboots currently end up a political box ticking mess where the writers totally ignore what made the original successful in their desire to push an agenda.
Glad its not just me that thinks this - look at Dr. Who now....
@@robertbrown3413 dr Who has been destroyed.
This is fantastic. Sapphire and Steel is probably one of the best shows ever made. Despite the low budget, the writing, acting and directing was superb. It is intelligent, original and nothing else has ever come close for me. Thanks for posting it here.
Couldnt have been that great, the cast decided they had enough after only a short time.
When it comes to low budget English SciFi, Doctor Who has it hands down. I'd say that's just my opinion, but I think the stats will support me.
This is a great show none the less 👍
@@Urko2005 ATV which produced it, lost its broadcast franchise and went into history.
I remember watching the one with the guy with no face taking children when I was 8 and it scared the $hit out oof me!
It is only my personal opinion but I believe Sapphire & Steel would have been a serious rival for any other Sci-fi tv series with a bigger budget.
For me it is Brilliant, inspiring and wonderful tv even today. It could only ever have been David & Joanna in my opinion.
Thank you.
It was a serious rival without the budget to be honest :)
Each assignment was gripping. A very English take on a timeless situation. Sapphire and Steel provides engagement in 2022. And it will endure. A classic. Thanks so much for posting
That show scared the bejaziz out of me as a kid. In a good way.
I was devastated when it ended with them locked in that room.
I bought the complete series years later as an adult to re-watch, and loved it all: but couldn't bring myself to watch that last story.
Wonderful hearing that the cast had a nice time making it.
Thank you, all involved, for the wonderful memories and not talking-down to children ...
They get out of that room, see BIG FINISH audios or rather listen to.
When chemistry works it just works. These two were ace together.
Loved this show. Perfectly cast & wonderfully written. Time to bring it back.
I totally agree. This ip is absolutely ripe for a reimagining now! Would love to see Joanna Lumley involved too somehow. Wish someone would secure the rights.
I'd love to know what happened to Silver.
Joanna lumley is part of our true English national heritage and has been for decades. A great actress with a phenomenal career. She even knows how to handle politicians aswell. Oct 2020 .👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍😎🇬🇧😎😁
We want another Sapphire and Steel series or movie!
I absolutely loved this show as a kid. It was intelligent, unique, atmospheric, with two great actors. Low budget made up for with great stories, script and acting. Nowadays programmes overuse special effects to replace actual story telling. It's like modern music all the fanfare but no substance/talent/quality.
Criminal that they left the series like that. All these reboots, when oh when will the BBC … :)
Happy 40th Anniversary, Sapphire & Steel (1979-2019). 💎&🔩
1979-2019 can't believe i was only ten when it was first shown lol
@@garypayne4284 It’s fascinating how children may surprisingly handle horror well enough. Certainly thanks to what British sci-fi horror like Sapphire & Steel and classic Doctor Who could most uniquely master for their time.
A criminally underrated show. I only discovered well after its original broadcast although I would have been old enough at the time. I love the show.
This show is screaming for a remake.
The Railway station scene in assignment 2 was very memorable.
If Hitchcock had done a Science Fiction tv. series - but with really low budget... this could have been it.
I love that the budget forced it to be so minimal. This series was a perfect example of 'Less is more'...
Brilliant programme.
I really wish there had been an Assignment 7.
Every so often for reasons that can't be easily explained pure genius is crafted and S&S is a great example of that.
Yes.
Absolutely.
As a chemist, I have access to a periodic table...
Back in 1979 I went looking for a couple of cis- and then trans-uranic elements ; Saphire and Steel... that was over 40 years ago ... still looking
Never has a torch light been so scary
Loved this show when I was a kid. It scared the shit out of me. the one with the ghost in the photographs still give me the creeps.
I remember this show. Especially the one where the villain manipulates photographs. One particular scene was so horrifying that it still gives me the creeps years later.
Yes..it has that effect on myself as well..
Scary stuff.
excellent , such fond memories ....she's always gona be hot 70's SciFi FTW
Always enjoyed this programme as a kid, it's good to see the writers and actors are proud of it still, it's a pity when you get people down the line distancing themselves and criticising earlier work, we need more weirdness, imagination, and ideas in modern TV, all a bit predictable and obvious these days.
One of the best TV shows ever!!! Saphire and Steel!!!
Joanna Lumley has had a magnificent career! Three cult shows. The New Avengers, Sapphire and Steel and Ab Fab! She is legendary
Also very beautiful!
She also played Doctor Who in Comic Relief. She was the first female Doctor Who I ever became aware of and she was very impressive.
Agreed, but so had David McCallum. He starred in The Man from UNCLE, The Great Escape, and the TV series Colditz. Two iconic British stars.
@@steadynumber1 invisible man and Kidnapped.
This lady Joanna Lumley, is a beautiful, clever and a very talented artist.
I just love her very much. Thank you very much.
Loved this show as a kid Lumley hasn’t aged a bit!
Loved it bring back the old programmes
I was reading a book by Mark Fisher, where he was talking about how popular culture used to inspire and challenge people. Sapphire and Steel probably wouldn't even get commissioned for broadcast mainstream UK TV these days. At 7pm on BBC1 through the week we get the One Show, where I think the One in the title is the amount of working neurons you need to watch it.
I just found out about this show 10 days ago and just finished it.probaly the best show I've ever seen.
This show needs more fans
Very true. I’m glad to finally be one of them.
I've just started
watching it I'm absolutely hooked
Same amazing.
This was such a great show! I have it on DVD. I need to watch it all again. The whole concept was fantastic. Time, as an entity, trying to break into our world and wreak havoc. I thought a remake was planned. I hope not though. It could never live up to the style and intensity of this. Remakes rarely do. Joanna Lumley was outstanding. So was David McCallum.
The DVD set of this show that I have was money well spent. From time to time I revisit all the assignments. I know all the lines, scenes, shots. Still I re-watch with the same enthusiasm.
I think I like how in the end, the heros, the good guys didn't quite win...that's refreshing and brave!
This series terrified me as a kid. After watching the one set in the railway station (was 8 at the time), I refused to go to sleep with the light off for two years afterwards as I could swear I saw the darkness creeping over the walls of my bedroom!
Yeah I always remember that particular episode. I was a similar age at the time. The series always had that eery feel to it. The First World War soldier on the railway station was a scary episode.
Definately! I think another reason I recall it so well is that a strike at ITV at the time cut half way through it. When the strike was over, they started it again from episode 1. Probably the most creepiest thing I'd ever watched as a kid!
Yup, that assignment has always stayed with me. Scary as heck. Brilliant!
jimmybisk me too the man without a face freaked me out
All I remember was the eery empty station, so thrillingly scary.
As a kid this show both intrigued and terrified me. Perfect!
Same!!!
Joanna Lumley and David McCallum had the most incredible onscreen chemistry - which is impossible to replicate.
Love both of these two, everything they've been in has been very entertaining.
Don't forget that Sapphire & Steel got a Big Finish series of audio adventures too.
Robert J Blues sadly not with the original actors :-(
I never said it would be but I hear your pain. If it was just the characters then I don't see what the problem would be.
Actually it is quite a good series. Three series all in all with Susannah Harker as Sapphire in series 1 and 2 and David Warner as Steel. Anna Skellern as Sapphire in series 3. I'd have loved to see this as a TV show with Harker and Warner.
@@timeflight silver appears in a few audios played by his original actor David Collings, unfortunately I haven't listened to any of them myself but I'm hoping to get them
For a low budget show, horror and mystery elements were excellently executed.
A brilliant and compelling series, and a lovely documentary. I missed a chance to see Joanna Lumley at an open evening, and this is one series I would've loved to have asked her about - I'm glad this exists, to answer those questions. Unreal that it's as old as it is now and yet still manages to feel exactly the same as it did when I watched it as a kid.
loved Sapphire and Steel
I loved this show as a child, I read a lot of horror and sci fi books from the adult library as a kid, I just preferred complex adult stories to childrens which seemed rubbish by comparison. Ended up with a huge interest as a writer as I got older! Anyway, last year me and the girlfriend watched every episode on youtube, it was a fabulous, intricate and very dark show, and such a shame they never made any more. Please David and Joanna, make another !
Perhaps they can do. Film version while both of them still here in this dimension 🤗
@@paulhunter1525 A successfully new Sapphire & Steel series would be an even more daunting task than it was to finally revive Doctor Who. That says a lot. But with the right people in charge, it would be promising.
A classic of British Science Fiction.
It's hard to classify series. Most of stories were here on Earth, not in Space. I think more closely related to the early episodes of X-files
I quite agree with what they said about how Sapphire & Steel was especially effective thanks to its low budget effects. CGI may become a burden for many shows and films. The acting can of course be the best special effect of all and both David and Joanna were blessed with that much in abundance.
I grew up this show and loved it.
Joanna lumley is the epitome of pure class, beauty beyond measure a smile to die for and a voice that is... Dreamy sexy beyond measure and her personality, she can talk to anyone and win them over, nuff said about this lovely unique English lady a true treasure xx❤️🇬🇧
Just watched every episode of sapphire and steel this week, used to love it when it was on RIP David 🫶
Those "old time" visual effects are still the best!
I first saw Sapphire & Steel when I was a kid. Some of it really scared me. I always loved it though.
Wonderful show. wonderful actors. But it was the finale that really hooked me and made me a lifelong fan of both Joanna And David (RIP).
The best show then and now as it was so intelligent surpassing everything bar play of the week
I can believe they haven't finished it in a podcast or radio show of some sort, I just watched it again for the 1st time in 40 years or something and wow what an amazing show!
I loved Sapphire and Steel! Have the DVD's in the house. Should be brought back, they are still floating about space.
Just watched this and had a thought; you could have Sapphire and Steel still trapped and than one of the transuranics (they’re called transuranium in science) - someone like Neptunium (in the form of a young woman with silver-white hair and silver eyes, as Neptunium is silver in colour) come and rescue them as she has a young girl’s crush on Steel and the transuranics are younger elements and so less stable (read highly emotional).
David McCallum was in an episode of The Outer Limits in 1963 called The Forms of Things Unknown. It had certain elements that could have been used in Sapphire and Steel which appeared 16 years later. McCallum was this strange guy who you knew very little about and had built a time machine made up of hundreds of clocks. It had the power to "tilt" time and bring the dead back to life, which it did. Like Sapphire and Steel, when this episode was broadcasted it caused confusion and fear among the viewers. ⌚
Creatively masterful fear with low budget special effects.
Mark Gatiss directed a ghost story for Christmas this year. It was low budget and relied on the script and the acting.
I think he or someone like him would be able to successfully do a reboot as he understands atmosphere and minimalism.
Oh wow where do i start? Well Joanna lumley is just Fantastic and as timeless as sapphire and steel is. I’ve now watched this many times the first time( with my mum ) on the telly when it was first shown and you tube. 2021. Sci fi isn’t really my thing but sas is
Actually thinking about it, the style of it is actually like the film stalker. Deep ideas and all dialogue. We don't see this anymore.
I still feel sorry for poor old Tully!
Bring back Sapphire and steel please rewrite it anyone listening
No!!!
A brilliant combination of Dr Who and The X Files.
Sapphire & Steel joining Mulder and Scully on a crossover case would have been a great idea.
I love the series Sapphire and Steel but ending of the final adventure was unfortunate. I have been rewatching it and think I have thought of a way to rescue sapphire and steal from trapped existence and it's simple to the element Quartz could rescue them. As quartzite which has a high oscillation point that why it's used for watches. Could help to breach the gap between the elements and save them. What do you think?
no tv has ever come close to the chills and pure psychological horror that came from it, the man with no face terrifed me and since then i still look at old pics and try find people whos faces are turned,
This show is fabulous for many reasons, but also because the premise is so brilliant. In 2000AD comic, they had a great serial called Indigo Prime that began in 1986, where various pairs of operatives would fix inter-dimensional screw-ups. Even Quantum Leap could be said to have been cut from the same kind of cloth.
Can anyone think of any other similar shows/stories?
Yeah, but in that series the main character was jumping into other peoples bodies. Without any control as to time, expect seem stuck between 1950s into 1970s
I think what's great about the show is how it sparks your imagination to fill in on the story.
i used to and still do love this series ,i still watch the reruns ,plus i had a massive crush on david mcallum
He is definitely "crush-worthy."
i loved sapphire & steel I remember watching it with my mum in the 70s & 80s & she never understood it so there I was as a child explaining it to her
i was 10 years kid when i se e this program i did not know eng but see.sapphire and steel looks more beautiful then 1980 .from pak.
Neither Sapphire or Steel is an element. Copper, now that is an element.
I loved S& S when I was a kid of 10 I remember watching it with mum & dad -& I was forever trying to explain what was going on because she hadnt a clue
Best scifi show ever, still creeps me out.
I both loved and was terrified by this show when I first saw it when I was 14!
+evancortez2 It's very good! I recently watched the series, and was delight!
Great to see a documentary about one of my favourite shows! S&S had everything, great actors, atmospheric plots, great story telling, without relying on special effects-haunting stories, the like of which we will probably never see again on modern day television!!
Nice, thanks for uploading.
PJ Hammond was insane for ending it though, almost as bad as how they ended Blake's 7.
@ZoneFighter1 Really? I think the creators only had the intention to make those seasons worth of episodes and that was it.
Also remember that ATV had lost their franchise by the end of 1981, so although the final adventure was broadcast in Central Television's first year: the reorganisation of the channel probably put paid to more adventures being made as well.
The endings for Sapphire & Steel and Blake's 7 (at least on TV, as opposed to what Big Finish would make possible) were consequently all the more impactful and a most interesting change from most other sci-fi shows of the 20th century. But agreeably they could have ended somewhat differently.
Marvelous insight into a series of which I was only lately reminded. Not only does it get better with...Time...but when I'm asked what it's all about I can only respond, "I simply can't answer." It being "word-heavy" may indeed be its greatest blessing.
For me the most memorable part David played was in Colditz. In the last two episodes you could see that his character was changing - you could see that he knew it was all coming to an end. And in the very final scene, as they are all leaving the camp, he and Jack Hedley are the last two standing at the door. You could see in David's whole body language that he was full of memories and full of regret, because he knew that for his character, the best and most creative part of his life was now over. It was back to Britain and working in a biscuit factory, or whatever.
A very enjoyable program, it came out when I was 19, I didn't have a clue what was going on at that time, and I've just watched it again, loved the acting. The only thing that bothers me is that Sapphire and Steel aren't actually elements!
im 55 i rember this shown on thursday at 20.00 hrs for 1 hour the premise brilliant pj hammond great conept omg the cast joanna lumley and david maccullum god bless david rest in time
the WW1 soldier episodes TOTALLY creeped me out. I would've been 7 or 8 so maybe i shouldn't have been watching lol but Joanna Lumley - well. Shes truly something else. I'm even prepared to forgive her for Absolutely (not) Fabulous.
i have never heard of this show, never seen this show. it came across my feed and i watched. i freakin love this show, totally addicted!
A superb series
Vivo en Colombia. Veía este show de niño. Uno de los mejores programas de Sci-Fi Terror DE TODA LA HISTORIA DE LA TV MUNDIAL.
there seems to be a bit of a TV regurgitation going on at the moment. let's have a real classic bring back sapphire and steel
I concour 70s friend 🇬🇧
Lumley, absolute godless.
Simply brilliant
Wonderful series, - I was introduced to it in the very early nineties through my Mum who loved and still loves the series - she bought, when I was a kid, Adventure Six - and that was my introduction to this weird and wonderful series which to this day is still just as powerful
Sapphire & Steel is a timelessly great SF show. I'm so glad that I finally got around to viewing it in recent years thanks to UA-cam. Although I haven't heard it yet, I'm also glad that it now has a Big Finish audio continuation, even without the original stars. It's an SF classic that reminds us of the appropriated horror-thriller genre that 70s & early 80s British TV did so well. Thank you very much for posting this documentary.
Big finish lost the rights sadly
BF lost the rights but made 15 or so great stories but you can only find them on EBay now at very inflated prices
@@garypayne4284 too true. They work brilliantly as audio plays. Shame that one of my sets has 2 disc ones
@@jmorton201 Which story?
It seemed really scary to me as a child, but I still have fond memories of the series. They don’t make em like that any more; wish they did.
Brilliant example of the delightful and intellectually weird British psyche from the 1970s. Very unique.
We shall never see the like again, TV doesn’t take chances anymore.
Tea time must see viewing, one of those programs where it all came together, sci-fi treated perfectly with quality scripts and top notch actors... but a wee budget... but that made them work harder so it all paid off in the end. Also loved the Big Finish audio adventures which followed straight on from the end of the TV series. Spoiler alert... Silver saved them from the motorway service station they were trapped in!
ANYTHING with Jo Lumley in should get AN OSCAR!
I agree, I even loved her in the New Averagers series. Elegance and intelligence in same beautiful package
what a theme!