It’s the most terrifying for me because, after five stories where the investigators can outmatch anything, their opponents are suddenly on an altogether different level. It’s the last two that do the most for me the final one raises the stakes, concluding the series in an almost uniquely downbeat way (think of Blake’s 7, A Very Peculiar Practice and very few others).
The most popular – and in many ways the most horrific – stories seem to be the second and fourth assignments, featuring the railway station and the man without a face. Starting life as a show for children, it became a scary series that messed with your head and turned nursery rhymes into tea-time terror for tots, along with such elements as a railway station haunted by ghostly soldiers, a man without a face coming out of a photograph and a surreal re-enactment of 1930s murder mysteries. They stop those breakthroughs, ruthlessly, and Joanna Lumley and David McCallum – both hot properties as blond, beautiful secret agent stars – carried out six assignments on ITV between 19. Sapphire and Steel are two agents from some strange dimension their opponent is time, not just a process but an almost malevolent force that can break through into our reality using old and often beloved items or ideas. Sapphire & Steel is almost wilfully incomprehensible if anyone ever came up with a complete explanation, all it could do is spoil it. This is the point in a review where I’d usually explain what the series is about, but there’s a problem with this one. It won’t make you keen to rush back to the classroom. Now it’s being made again as a series of audio dramas and, appropriately, the latest one out is The School. One of the most terrifying things I ever saw as a boy was an episode of the weird Joanna Lumley and David McCallum supernatural / science fiction / horror investigation series Sapphire & Steel, a series that came to a premature and pitiless end 24 years ago today. It’s the end of August, and deep inside me a boyish instinct says it’s time to go back to school.
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