Sapphire & Steel - Season 1 - Eps 1: Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (1)
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. He hurries upstairs to find that his parents have vanished. Left alone with Helen and no neighbors nearby, Rob calls the police for help. But a pair of strange, time-traveling agents named Sapphire and Steel arrive instead and inform Rob that they are his only hope in getting his parents back.
About Sapphire & Steel
Title: Sapphire & Steel
First Air Date: 1979-07-10
Last Air Date: 1982-08-31
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.4/10 (from 23 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 7
Total Episodes: 34
Network: ITV1
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read. In 2004, Sapphire and Steel returned in a series of audio dramas starring David Warner and Susannah Harker.
Cast
David McCallum
Steel
Joanna Lumley
Sapphire
