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  Andy's Anachronisms -- Sapphire and Steel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sapphire and Steel are beings from another dimension assigned to prevent the fabric of time from being compromised.
Steel is able to freeze objects to near absolute zero and thereby hold the advance of the creatures from the other dimension.
Sapphire and Steel appear content to have halted this particular intrusion in time and the kids and parents are satisfied to have been reunited.
www.timetravelreviews.com /tv_reviews/sapphire_steel.html   (1257 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel: Your questions answered
Ostensibly, Sapphire and Steel are two operatives who are sent to earth to prevent or repair ruptures in the strictly ordered fabric of time, to maintain the integrity of past, present and future.
Sapphire is able to 'take time back' for limited periods, to ascertain the age and nature of objects and to access historical data of both a general and individual kind.
Steel is frequently abrupt to the point of downright rudeness and while Sapphire might initially appear more gracious, she is certainly a match for Steel when it comes to coolness.
www.walkenworks.com /ss2.html   (2014 words)

  
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Sapphire and Steel have been assigned." (Opening narration from each episode) "Sapphire and Steel" was an intriguing SF/fantasy series made by ATV in Britain from 1979 to 1981.
Sapphire (played by Joanna Lumley) has some power over time - she can read an object's age, and some details of its history, by touching it, and shift time back a few minutes (hours if she stretches her strength to its limits) to "replay" an event.
Sapphire and Steel arrive to find that one of the building's inhabitants isn't human and that an old photographer's experiments have produced something a bit more substantial than optical illusions.
members.tripod.com /~ego2/guides/sapphire-and-steel.guide   (1159 words)

  
 Sapphire & Steel
Sapphire and Steel was a British television science-fiction series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire.
Steel, for example, often had gaps in his knowledge of human culture and even Sapphire's grace was tempered with a cool detachment from the humans they interacted with.
Steel, on the other hand, could freeze himself to absolute zero which gave him the ability to destroy "ghosts", which were in actuality remnants of Time.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Sapphire_26_Steel.php   (2215 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel on the Sci-Fi Freak Site
Sapphire is the humanist of the team, full of fun and able to show warmth and kindness to the humans caught up in the situations.
Steel gains access to the figure and learns from her that the ghosts represent no threat and neither does the darkness that is behind them.
Sapphire reappears in one of the other pods and discovers why this is. Eldred and Rothwyn, the pod's inhabitants, discover their baby, now in the body of a man and with the power to turn things to sand.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /darrenhf/sapphire.html   (3907 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sapphire and Steel was a late '70s, early '80s British Sci-Fi series, starring David McCallum (Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and Joanna Lumley (The New Avengers).
The main two characters in the series - Sapphire and Steel - are operators.
In this, Sapphire and Steel have to contend with an intelligence which has broken through into the real world, due to a nursary rhyme creating a weak-spot in space/time.
www.cix.co.uk /~nirvana/TVFilms/SappNSteel/sns.htm   (1224 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel
Sapphire and Steel starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire.
The programme centred on a pair of interdimensional operatives, the titular Sapphire and Steel.
While Sapphire was portrayed as more affable and "human" than the no-nonsense, grim Steel, it was clear that their prime concern was to deal with the break in Time, sometimes over the safety of the humans caught in the incidents they investigated.
ranikaye.tripod.com /sapphireandsteel   (387 words)

  
 Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
Sapphire sometimes manages to show the humans around her a little sympathy, but Steel has little patience for them, or for the assistance of his more congenial agents, Lead and Silver, who have a way of showing up whenever the eponymous pair prove unequal to the task of unravelling the local paradoxes.
In each of the six arcs, Sapphire and Steel spend episode after episode mulling over the nature of the various phenomena, as trapped in their circumstances as any human beings who happen to be trapped in there with them.
All the Sapphire and Steel adventures oblige the characters to amble back and forth among an increasingly claustrophobic collection of sets, piecing together clues at a slow crawl until, two to three hours of methodical frustration later, they finally resolve the crisis in a less-than-exciting climax.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue421/screen4.html   (1006 words)

  
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Sapphire and Steel was a unique blend of science-fiction and thriller to emerge from the studios of ATV (ITV Midlands region) between 1979 and 1982.
Sapphire and Steel was a dark, brooding British science fiction/fantasy TV series starring David McCallum (Steel) and Joanna Lumley (Sapphire).
The agents are suspicious as to the lack of interest shown by the couple in the modern trappings of the petrol station and the strange unused condition of the musician's tambourine.
www.lycos.com /info/sapphire--sapphire-steel.html   (284 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel TV Show - Sapphire and Steel Television Show - TV.com
Sapphire and Steel was use of the televisual medium at its best although it never managed to be properly repeated or sold abroad.
Sapphire and Steel was the first show I watched that scared me and attracted me at the same time.
Sapphire and Steel is the most eerie and atmospheric tv show I have seen in all my life.
www.tv.com /sapphire-and-steel/show/2597/summary.html   (713 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel characters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Created by P.J.Hammond, Sapphire and Steel detailed the missions of a pair of mysterious beings who appeared to be agents of an unknown power.
Some more information about the agents came from a discussion Sapphire had with a human boy in the first story, when she informed the child that there were 127 of them, including 12 Transuranics.
Steel however countered that the Transuranics should not be counted, since "they're unstable".
www.internationalhero.co.uk /s/sandselementals.htm   (251 words)

  
 Sapphire & Steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steel, for example, often has gaps in his knowledge of human culture and even Sapphire's grace is tempered with a cool detachment from the humans they interact with.
Sapphire also has a flirtatious relationship with Silver, contributing to an air of underlying sexual tension on the occasions that Silver is called upon to assist the duo.
Steel, on the other hand, can freeze himself to absolute zero which gives him the ability to destroy "ghosts", which are in actuality remnants of Time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sapphire_&_Steel   (2002 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel Introduction
All that we are told is that Sapphire and Steel are ‘elements’ - beings from another dimension, who have been assigned by a higher power to prevent the fabric of time from being compromised.
Of the two agents, Sapphire is more gentle and diplomatic, while Steel is cold and calculating, caring little for the people caught up in the events that the two of them have been sent to correct, and choosing to be quite ruthless when it comes to rectifying the situation.
Steel is able to freeze objects to near absolute zero - which he utilises to hold off the creatures attempting to break through from other dimensions - and, as suggested by his name, has immense physical strength.
www.clivebanks.co.uk /Sapphire%20and%20Steel%20Intro.htm   (793 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel: Past Imperfect
Sapphire and Steel are complementary characters, and Hammond was wise enough not to resist the elegant simplicity of the premise.
Sapphire, all Chelsea dinner party sophistication and simmering sexuality counterbalances the often awkward and socially brutal Steel and certainly seems the more human of the two, though Hammond denies Lumley's understanding that the characters were alien, stating that they could be best described as "supernatural do-gooders".
Sapphire and Steel fizzles out with the duo suspended in space and time, the story ending on a chillingly surreal image of the couple looking out from a café window floating in space.
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 Starburst 10/2001
Sapphire and Steel arrive to help, and slowly, with their make-it-up-as-you-go technique, they sort things out and restore the missing parents, with a little help from jovial Lead (Val Pringle).
Lumley's costar in Sapphire and Steel, David McCallum, was born in Glasgow in 1933 and has appeared in hundreds of TV series, including The A-Team, Murder She Wrote and Babylon 5.
Sapphire and Steel mention having worked on the Marie Celeste, and that they had to sink it "for it's own good".
www.davidmccallumfansonline.com /starburst/starburst.htm   (1864 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Sapphire and Steel - the TV Series
Sapphire could turn back time a short way and appeared to have an empathic link with anyone/anything she met.
Sapphire and Steel arrive and try and return the parents while the two children get in the way.
The adventure is memorable for Steel hanging from WW I barbed wire and his skip of joy at a job well done at the end.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A311202   (1016 words)

  
 Sapphire & Steel Transcripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Steel is able to drop his temperature to minus 273.1 degrees (which is when he really needs Lead around), and he is strong enough to lift an elevator and tie a knot in the cable while holding it up, and can be impervious.
Steel shows a willingness to trust Silver, and when it seems that the other agent will indeed turn on them, is frozen with horrified disbelief.
Steel and Silver manage to eliminate two of the Transients from the picture, but the third manages to close the trap on Sapphire and Steel.
www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/halojones/75/saphsteel/saphsteel.html   (1242 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sapphire and Steel was an intriguing science fantasy TV series produced by ATV between 1979 and 1982.
It starred Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as the eponymous duo, Sapphire and Steel.
Their purpose, inasmuch as we could deduce, was to turn up where and when there was a rip or instability in space-time, and restore the balance, putting everything back where it was meant to be -- as much as they could, anyway.
www.katspace.org /fandom/sns   (155 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel @ dismal light
Their personalities seemed to be very different -- Steel was cold and abrupt, Sapphire was warm and charming -- but they had several characteristics in common: both of them could be calculating, manipulative, and extremely ruthless.
They also had a strong sense of duty that saw them putting themselves in harm's way again and again, and they seemed to care at some level for the people whose lives were affected by the forces it was their job to fight.
Sapphire And Steel: Assignments I, II & III
www.dismal-light.net /sapphireandsteel   (653 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sapphire and Steel - The Complete Series: DVD: David McCallum,David Foster (VI),Shaun O'Riordan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The mysteries encountered by Sapphire, Steel and their colleagues include people trapped in photographs, ghosts lost in time, and a dinner party of guests who are all long-dead.
SAPPHIRE AND STEEL is a 1980s British sci-fi series with a very limited special effects budget.
If you like Sapphire and Steel that means you are inteligent, curious for life and nature, smart, and have sharp mind.
www.amazon.com /Sapphire-Steel-Complete-David-McCallum/dp/B00061QJIA   (2350 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel @ dismal light
I did not write the stories for the Sapphire & Steel annual but, as with the Look-In magazine, I was sent proofs to read in advance of the publication.
Because Sapphire & Steel was regarded as something of an innovation at the time of its production, all those working on the show became very involved.
While they used a different approach to the Sapphire & Steel saga, by incorporating a 1930’s detective story style, it is not a direction that I would personally have chosen.
www.dismal-light.net /sapphireandsteel/rs-hammond.html   (1473 words)

  
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 About Sapphire and Steel Spirits
While in human form their appearance (and behavior) is related to the (physical) element on which they are based e.g.
Steel appears as a man in a grey suit with a cold, rigid manner.
Elements are subject to paradox as per mages (in the final series of Sapphire and Steel they are trapped in a Correspondence Paradox realm for eternity).
hem.bredband.net /arenamontanus/Mage/sapphire_steel.html   (893 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel by Peter J Hammond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sapphire and Steel is a novelisation of the very first television story.
P.J. Hammond, who wrote all the Sapphire and Steel scripts, has written a new introduction for this new edition of his long out-of-print novel.
Sapphire and Steel was a spooky ITV drama starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as two time-detectives whose job it was to investigate when time 'broke through.' After thirty-four episodes they were last seen on television trapped in a cafe which was floating in space.
homepage.ntlworld.com /john.seymour1/ukbookguide/Series/SapphireAndSteel.html   (391 words)

  
 Sapphire and Steel - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
‘Sapphire and Steel’ was a relatively short- lived Sci-Fi show that took a different approach to the genre.
Sapphire David McCallum....Steel David Collins…Silver Steven O'Shea...Rob Patricia Shakesby....Anne Shaw David Suchet....Voiceover in titles Directed by David Foster, Shaun O'Riordan "All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension...Sapphire and Steel have been assigned" Only six stories were made of this strange, and weirdly atmospheric show.
Sapphire and Steel : Time is a corridor.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/sapphire-and-steel   (215 words)

  
 Sapphire & Steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Lighthouse (Sapphire and Steel): Books: Nigel Fairs,David Warner,Susannah Harker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Surest Poison (Sapphire and Steel) by Richard Dinnick
Sapphire and Steel, themselves, seem aloof throughout, and get around 5 minutes of air time.
We should be thankful that this is the shortest Sapphire and Steel adventure to date.
www.amazon.co.uk /Lighthouse-Sapphire-Steel-Nigel-Fairs/dp/1844351408   (601 words)

  
 Sapphire & Steel mistakes, goofs and bloopers
Continuity: "Service Station" (Adventure 6, Part 2): After the 1940s couple arrives at the diner, the tomato-shaped condiment dish keeps migrating to different spots on their table, even though no one is ever seen touching it.
Steel takes off his coat and then ties a knot in the cable - without getting a single grease smudge on his hands or his pristine white shirt.
They're most often missing in the scenes she appears in with Steel, presumably so that her height won't exceed his.
www.moviemistakes.com /tv6122   (367 words)

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