Sapphire and Steel

[@peterstevie6671]

One of the best written and well acted dramas of the 80’s. This was immensely scary and thought provoking. Would love to see it return.

[@ahsenkhan5386]

intro was rippoff from outer limits

[@pastorbri]

they would ruin it if they made it now.

[@paulcrisp9861]

​@@pastorbrisaphire and steel with the tomorrow people are gems from yesteryear. 🙏❤️🇬🇧❤️🙏 💎 jul twenty three

[@pastorbri]

@@paulcrisp9861 agreed as is dr who till they spoiled it

[@paulcrisp9861]

@@pastorbri totally agree 😅🤣

[@madbob73]

I recently rented these on dvd again and watched for the 1st time in 25 yrs! I was amazed how scary they were considering the time of night they were broadcast

[@robbiethepict2783]

They were like Mulder and Scully but not human. Sometimes Sapphire showed her compassionate side, but Steel would throw anyone under the bus.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I wonder if they had a true form?

[@deanpook]

Way, way dark. PJ Hammond left us guessing about so much to do with Sapphire and Steel. -But that's what I love about it. I got 'em all on DVD. My favourites are the time capsule and motorway service station adventures.

[@annemia2953]

The episode set in the train station with the ghosts of the WW1 soldiers was so damn scary..

[@suzannejane1035]

Bring them back!!! A fantastic programme from when I was a kid - scary but amazing.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The Doctor Who audio adventures people have done just that. They do S&S stories and others as well. Big Finish Audio. The pictures are better on radio...

[@inoxide5454]

BRING BORIS BACK !

[@tibijedi702]

This series caused me so many nightmares! I was a 12 year old kid when first time watched this, now 23 and it still gives me the creeps. They really knew in the 70's and 80's how to make scary shit unlike nowadays with cgi and other crap. And especially british, they know how to make good tv shows.

[@tibijedi702]

Space 1999 was good/scary too. At least the first season.

[@BaseDeltaZero1972]

@@tibijedi702 It was scary in one or two episodes (the thing luring space ships to their death was one that had me hiding behind the couch), I remember it for the Eagle spacecraft though...they still look like real-world functioning spacecraft to this day. The ship designs on any Jerry Anderson production were usually top notch, but the Eagle is the pinnacle for me.

[@mandolinic]

The Children of the Stones. Scariest kid's show ever. TV version still available on KZbin and the BBC radio remake available on BBC sounds.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

​Escape into Night was another creepy one. A girl sick in bed drew a house that she visited in her dreams. I remembered the rocks with eyes for years after.

[@stevetheduck1425]

@@zacmumblethunder7466From a book called 'Marianne Dreams', was standard reading when I was a school. Worth looking up. Back when it was normal to assume kids could learn big concepts like the Big Four Adult Fears.

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

I felt so bad for the woman in the photo watching this aged 9, this was the most surreal show ever and cleverly on a low budget utilising new video effects.

[@mistygal72]

The man without a face scared me so much when I was young. I think it's the first thing on tv from memory that really scared me. trust my Dad and his beloved sci fi lol

[@bernadettemurray8260]

Remember the opening credits, never got the chance to see it properly.

[@avidviewer67]

It really makes you wonder just how many viewers suddenly became seriously camera-shy after seeing this particular Sapphire and Steel adventure...

[@creepvision1380]

Loved it - although it did give me nightmares as a child - especially the man with no face episode

[@stevetheduck1425]

'But you've seen my face...'

[@bossman1905]

Haven't seen these since they were made great to watch again in 2022

[@pertuk]

I saw this story when I was 9 and it freaked me out for weeks afterwards.

[@DocSponk]

This story scared the hell out of me as a little kid when it was first broadcast.

[@eoraptor3]

La mejor serie de lo años 80, espectacular y misteriosa!!!

[@fhanorse]

is incredible because, few things scare me in this life, unless the films, even when i was born in the most dangerous country in the world colombia, but it scared me as a child and even frightens me now, creepy ,and it was spicological claustrophobic awsome! nice old 70 s show

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

Someone burned alive at 7pm on a weekday. You can't imagine something of that level of unpleasantness going out at that time now. Oh, hang on - Emmerdale.

[@Vargon7]

'Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.' Always wondered what form they would take on their assignments.

[@christopherhulse8385]

Currently being re-shown on UK terrestrial TV since 1982 on Forces TV, freeview channel 96.

[@paulcrisp9861]

This is not what i had in mind for time travel it's too scary. To think i had scary dreams watching this. Ok some of the sets were a little wobbly but still great viewing even now. Maybe i should get some tips from sapphire and Steele on how to choose the right dimension I'm sure it would be more fun. Oct 2020 the alternative dimension. 😎😎🥶🥶🙄🙄🌎🌎😎😎🌎🌈🌎🌈🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@soygatocallejero]

I had a broken leg when he went to mexico and I could see the chapters and were great

[@mikesilva3868]

Love this show 📼

[@shesaesa]

Oh man! I remember, I was scared to death when I watched this when I was a kid. Couldn't sleep for months! Heheheheeeeee....

[@eldridgep2]

The WW1 railway station series was one of the best pieces of TV ever made. Joanna with black eyes (shudder).....

[@stevetheduck1425]

Have watched that again recently, and cannot figure out why that station is closed, still standing, looks like it was closed in the early 1920s AND stuck in sometime with 1970s reel-to-reel tape recorders. The other stories had only short time-slips, like the trip back to the building of a house in the first mission, but this one had me wondering. It's so like the set up for the last assignment; the 'present', the 1950s and a generation earlier as well.

[@BaseDeltaZero1972]

I remember one assignment were they were dealing with technology/an entity powered by living animal foetuses, really nasty stuff and way ahead of its time. This series was dark and creative. I have the DVDs and they stand up really well in my view.

[@kitti0702]

Whoa, this is the only ep of S&S I haven't watched just because the very few glimpses I've seen just really look so freaky. The dude without a face is too creepy for words. I know someone keeps making S&S stories, but not like the actual series. Wish they could bring S&S back, but the only way it could be done right would be with DM and JL - they are essential. It could have been done 10-15 years ago, but I don't know that David could do it now - too bad.

[@chrishannon8187]

I just loved how Sapphire would become transfixed using her powers

[@mangalese]

Good lord. Scared 3 clours of living crap outta me when I was a kid. Especially the man without a face who moved from photo to photo. Managed to see the final ever episode when the replayed it in New Zealand.

[@amyclarke41]

loved this and the leads , dr who was nearly a rival to them i think ax

[@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580]

RIP David 😢

[@myopinion3320]

Thanks for the memories you nightmare causing bastards.

[@chrishannon8187]

Love this show

[@brucedanton3669]

The series ended when ATV ended and Central took over the ITV Midlands role in 1982. A shame that they did not want to continue it there then though really of course?

[@druunderwood5602]

Gold.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Always wanted to meet Jet, me. ;-)

[@yvainwalker4504]

Has anyone noticed the similarities in the brass section of the piece of music and Gustav Holst Mars?!

[@stuartmack7658]

I remember this series being kinda weird and scary. I would have been around 9 or 10 at the time. I'm guessing it shared writers with Dr. Who and possibly the Quatermass films...I'm certainly getting a sense of Nigel Kneale's influence. Quite a lot of British 70's TV sci-fi took directions we would consider way too scary or disturbing for prime-time viewing today. Think I'll go off and watch 'Children of the Stones' now.

[@carolcollins4546]

❤❤❤

[@lalli90]

dudes...do u knw where i can buy DVD:s i live in finland :/...and do u remember the one where spphire and steel were in mansion and some1 killed 1 by 1 mansions guests?

[@packjim56]

Did it ever bother anyone that neither Sapphire or Steel is an element. One is, i believe, a composite material and the other one is a compound. Or is alloy the correct terminology?

[@stuartmack7658]

Foolish humans.

[@jezedwards190]

Quality 👌

[@TumbleTower]

Actually diamond is a pure form of CARBON (just like graphite), therefore you could call diamond an element. Steel is really IRON (an element) that's been converted to steel in an electric arc furnace.

[@flashtheoriginal]

See your point, but diamond is not an element. It is an allotrope of Carbon, benefitting from it's low atomic number classification. No offence intended. Sapphire, steel, diamond and jet were offered as elementary enhancements or structured combinations (similar to synthesis but suburanic). Best wishes

[@CubeCyclone]

@vania1013 Lost episodes? as in never previously shown?

[@uncled39]

Very scary, they don't make them like this anymore. This was part of my life growing up. Watching makes you realize how poor television is today, no new ideas and rubbish politically correct crap.

[@codedlAnguage]

Worth it just for the opening Music. 🙄. 😓. 🤕. 😓. 🤔. 😓. 🙄. 🙏 🤔 💝 💣 💥💥💥💥🎈💥 🙄

[@lalli90]

okay thanks ^^

[@chriscox2868]

CHILLLSSSS

[@MattF12765]

This used to always scare me

[@ninaevans4501]

If only two people had such powers. To right the wrongs of the past and make the TRUE villains of yesterday pay for their crimes. Sadly, this will never be reality. Young men who died in the trenches of WW1. RAF Pilots and soldiers who's lives were so tragically lost during WW1/WW2. The villains that like to burn both people (and animals) to death, are still out there. IF ONLY THERE WERE A "REAL" , "SAPPHIRE AND STEEL". ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤔🤔🤔😔😔😔👍👍

[@pauldunneska]

Fantastic show so spooky probably because the acting seems so wooden but that just adds to its appeal. 7/7/2013.Irish time 11:56am.Sunday.

[@richardkent6160]

david mcallum should have been typed casted as a russian in a guy ritchie movie

[@HERITAGE12]

A kids show boys and girls 😂 😂 😂

[@oniscarvajal9984]

Quiero verla español

[@AndreaSzabo7171]

😐