Post by Melissa Kane on Apr 28, 2006 18:00:41 GMT
Does anyone here remember a TV series of the late Seventies/early Eighties called "Sapphire and Steel"?
Well, I was only a kid when it came out but I went through a phase of collecting David McCallum's stuff years ago (yuppers, the blonde one from "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.") and he starred in this with the fantastic Joanna Lumley as the titular characters. What a wonderful, original and largely forgotten drama series!
Sapphire and Steel, along with many others like Lead, Silver (Silver was effeminate and totally hilarious) are elementals who were the guardians of time. There are about twelve elementals in total, if I remember rightly, but only a select few have cameo apperances with Sapphire and Steel. All the elementals can read each others' minds so this helps guide them in what the can do.
Sapphire is beautiful, tall and as you might expect, always dresses in blue. She can read the history or future of an object or person by touching it/them and is just a perceptive in other ways.
Steel is hard, cold and unforgiving, but its clear he loves Sapphire, in his way. He always dresses in grey suits and has all the properties of the element after which he is named (okay, technically, steel is an alloy, but what a cool name!) and is the calculated half of the duo.
Anywhere there is rift in time, be it in a house where two children's parents have disappeared and haunting nursury rhymes float back through time or a manipulated photograph which contains elements from two different time periods and releases an ancient, faceless being, Sapphire and Steel are dispatched to figure out what happened and clear it up.
Each "adventure" is a miniseries in itself, and each one has strong characterisation, brilliantly unnerving storylines and despite having almost no special effects, is so utterly absorbing that you have to watch more!
The reason I mentioned this series is that a new series of Sapphire and Steel has been proposed by the original writer, but without David or Joanna. I'm not sure whther this will go ahead, but it could ruin what is a very dark and enduring series. The talk is of speeding up the stories, which, in the original, took at least three episodes to get to the heart of the matter and gave you insight into the characters involved.
Personally, I think its a bad idea, but since it looks to be a long way off, maybe they won't go ahead. Leave this little British gem alone! But, they did do some audio books based on the series prior to its downbeat ending, but I've never come across any of those! *lol* There's no official site for Sapphire And Steel, so i've got the IMDb write up for it instead for your delectation!
[glow=red,2,300]www.imdb.com/title/tt0078682/[/glow]
'Lissa!
Well, I was only a kid when it came out but I went through a phase of collecting David McCallum's stuff years ago (yuppers, the blonde one from "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.") and he starred in this with the fantastic Joanna Lumley as the titular characters. What a wonderful, original and largely forgotten drama series!
Sapphire and Steel, along with many others like Lead, Silver (Silver was effeminate and totally hilarious) are elementals who were the guardians of time. There are about twelve elementals in total, if I remember rightly, but only a select few have cameo apperances with Sapphire and Steel. All the elementals can read each others' minds so this helps guide them in what the can do.
Sapphire is beautiful, tall and as you might expect, always dresses in blue. She can read the history or future of an object or person by touching it/them and is just a perceptive in other ways.
Steel is hard, cold and unforgiving, but its clear he loves Sapphire, in his way. He always dresses in grey suits and has all the properties of the element after which he is named (okay, technically, steel is an alloy, but what a cool name!) and is the calculated half of the duo.
Anywhere there is rift in time, be it in a house where two children's parents have disappeared and haunting nursury rhymes float back through time or a manipulated photograph which contains elements from two different time periods and releases an ancient, faceless being, Sapphire and Steel are dispatched to figure out what happened and clear it up.
Each "adventure" is a miniseries in itself, and each one has strong characterisation, brilliantly unnerving storylines and despite having almost no special effects, is so utterly absorbing that you have to watch more!
The reason I mentioned this series is that a new series of Sapphire and Steel has been proposed by the original writer, but without David or Joanna. I'm not sure whther this will go ahead, but it could ruin what is a very dark and enduring series. The talk is of speeding up the stories, which, in the original, took at least three episodes to get to the heart of the matter and gave you insight into the characters involved.
Personally, I think its a bad idea, but since it looks to be a long way off, maybe they won't go ahead. Leave this little British gem alone! But, they did do some audio books based on the series prior to its downbeat ending, but I've never come across any of those! *lol* There's no official site for Sapphire And Steel, so i've got the IMDb write up for it instead for your delectation!
[glow=red,2,300]www.imdb.com/title/tt0078682/[/glow]
'Lissa!