Sapphire & Steel - Season 1 - Eps 5: Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (5)
The time break strengthens after a nursery rhyme hidden in a book becomes stuck in Helen's head. Sapphire burns the nursery rhyme book and Steel and Lead barely succeed in stopping the time break from spreading. The kitchen is left a windblown mess and Helen and Rob help Sapphire with the clean-up effort while Lead and Steel keep watch upstairs. Everything takes a turn for the worse when two more pools of light escape from the bedroom and Rob suddenly goes missing.
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
