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List of Sapphire & Steel serials


This is a list of the television and audio serials of the British science-fiction series Sapphire & Steel.

The television series was transmitted between July 1979 to August 1982 on ITV1 and was produced by Shaun O'Riordan, with David Reid as executive. More than two decades later, an audio series was released on compact disc by Big Finish Productions. The CDs were released between May 2005 and August 2008 and were produced by Nigel Fairs and Jason Haigh-Ellery.

A happy family lives in an 18th-century house filled with clocks and antiques. One night, a nursery rhyme ("Ring a Ring o' Roses") read aloud to Helen, the little girl, triggers a time fracture that takes away her parents. As Rob, Helen's older brother, tries to understand what has happened, two mysterious strangers appear, promising to fix things. Sapphire and Steel eventually gain Rob's trust and work out a solution to the problem. Lead also arrives to provide assistance.

(Note: P.J. Hammond novelised this story for Star Books in 1979. It was simultaneously available in both hardback and paperback)

(Note: This story's transmission was interrupted by the 1979 ITV technicians strike, which lasted from 10 August to 24 October 1979. Once the strike was over, instead of resuming transmission with the next episode, the decision was made to transmit the story from the beginning.)

(Note: Many regional editions of TVTimes wrongly billed this story as a repeat. This was possibly due to confusion caused by the changeover from ATV to Central on 1 January 1982, when an ITV contracts change in 1980 resulted in the Midlands ITV region's franchise going from the first company to the second.)


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