why dont the bbc remake this?..even the new audio range isnt half bad...it just what we need..spooky clausterphobic..timetravel...and while im at it doctor who needs to be totally re-imagined...back to basics
A classic example of cult T.V. that lives in my memories and many others as I can see from this. This was brilliant i loved the ww1 ghost story of the lost soldier that unleashes a melevolent force.
Oh my God this brings back memories. I used to love this show. Never understood it though. Must look at it again from an adults point of view and see if it makes any more sense now. Somehow I doubt it.
One of the best TV shows ever made. It didn't make sense...which was a really good thing. TV producers should take note of that fact. Making perfect sense is not always a good thing.
And they say the Prisoner doesn't make sense - try this series on instead...
Remember the haunted train station – that one was well creepy !
But PLEASE don't make a remake - the NEW Prisoner and the NEW Thunderbird movie (both total crap) have shown the world it's never a good idea to mess with a classic
On yes - I enjoyed them but their a bit vague in my memory now - my folks weren't really fans and were talking of the days when families had just one telly. Have you seen them on DVD ? Is the quality any good? I suspect not..anyone seen them?
I used to watch this show but couldn't ( as a kid) understand much about it. I am 40 now ! There was one programme a bit earlier that is bugging me. It was a creepy show where there was a round piece of plastic on a window and it was somehow magic ? Does anyone remember that show ?
Doctor Who me bollix! This was fucking brilliant TV full of atmosphere and creepy suspense. Doctor Who had shite aliens and annoying guest stars. Also it wasn't worth a wet wank on a wednesday the moment Tom Baker did a bolt. Doctor Who? Get off the fuckin bus!
ITV trying desparately to create a new rival show to the BBC's 'Doctor Who' after the Tomorrow People finally flopped out of existance!
After this one went the way of the dodo they gave up! and even Doctor Who faded into oblivion for a few years, until Christopher Ecclestone brought the Who series back in a MASSIVE way back in 2005!!
I believe Matt Smith has already sacked Doctor Who and a replacement is being negotiated. Also a Doctor Who movie is currently in the planning stages.
@Shazam961 I never said Smith got sacked I said he sacked the show!! he said it last year after completing his first season but the beeb didnt want another one season Doctor like Ecclestone. So he was pursuaded to do at least one more which they have decided to split into two to stretch it out up to its 13th episode which will be aired on Christmas day when Smith will leave and regenerate into...
@xanderxine Hey I believe on the basis of what he said on the One Show all I know he very happy Being Doctor Who I think you got your facts wrong mate, would be headline news in england if he wanted to leave, I mean he a young actor and he got a big future ahead of him, I mean he was 26 when he got the job I see him be Doctor Who well into his early 30's. So I'm sure where you got this notion of him leaving after season, but its not true. that is that
type this in adress bar... vvvvvv.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3056595/MATT-SMITH-is-ready-to-quit-as-Doctor-Who-to-crack-Hollywood.html - the 'w' at the begining are actually two v
He blurted it out it last year but was told to keep shtumn by the BBC until he had fulfilled his contract and they had found a replacement by the end of 2011. He then said he had changed his mind and would stay on but that was just to satisfy his bosses!
@xanderxine Well you know I think he would be mad to do so I can understand his desire to do other things but now their are so many fans that has accepted him as the sucessor to David tennant's doctor they would be mad if he did leave like this my money is that he will stay for another 3 more years in which he be in his 30. So sorry I just don't believe what you have said until I hear it from the horse mouth simple as that
@Credithelper75 this is a brilliant intro very dramatic this is a brilliant show it should never had been cancelled at all becuase it was a unique complex sci fi programme i was very cross with itv when they gave it the chop this show didnt deserve that.
Anyone remember the spin-off series "Brick and Spunk" ? - bloody idiots the pair of them, the remake was even worse "Domestos and Cake" awful, the 1980 annual i had featured Sapphire and Steel's not so clever counterparts "Custard and Dung" which was actually quite nice, i mean good... no I'm confused, oh god I'm getting the fear...
Thes searies used to SCARE THE BAHEEBIES OUT OF ME! When I was young (around the 90's) we had thistv channel that showed old tv shows, and this was my favorite. This and the invisible man XD but even today, I remember being very disturbed and frightened by the episodes, yet I always tuned in when it was on XD even today, my memries might have warped a little, but that just justifies what images it conjured in my mind! I so hope to see them again!
The best one was "adventure 5" when they were at the dinner party...A relative of David McCallum lived near my parents and, as a 6 year old in 1980, seeing Steel come out from a house along the road one day, I ran home in terror.
The faceless guy who got at you through photos and took your face! If I recall it correctly S&S tricked him into a photo which they put into a box (they couldn't kill him) needing to imprison him somewhere safe immediately where he won't be found and unleashed on the world again. They detect a ship is about to sink in deep art of the ocean and it won't be discovered for for 55 years - It'll have to do and they teleport the box to the doomed ship.
The woman who has survived this ordeal is told to "Destroy all photos of yourself. And never be photographed again!" I still think about that every time I have my photo taken! There's your Return of Sapphire and Steel; James Cameron finding the box at the bottom of the ocean. Now if only S&S could escape limbo to save him...
As a child I used to be TERRIFIED of the opening credits of ITV's World of Sport. Especially on rainy Saturdays when my Dad was in. I was in for an afternoon of unrelenting BOREDOM...
I am only 21 and from the US so I didn't know about this show- I met Joanna Lumley only two days ago and she is so sweet and nice! I didn't know she was so beautiful
this show was just as good as doctor who both sapphire and steel were like timelords that actualy used their powers over time to fight evil if atv had given this series a chance to develop it would have lasted as long as doctor who and i would have been given a chance to see the other time elementals silver was everyones favorite but, we never got a chance to see all the others or the person that gave them their assignments.
@doctorw2 Jet had an outing in the first adventure, and others were mentioned. Sapphire and Steel weren't lords of time though, if they had been they would have been able to escape the transients trap. The programme might have gone on, but for ATV losing their broadcast licence and Central TV not wanting to take S&S beyond a sixth adventure.
@boomshanka hey boom shanka... u mite need to watch again, this time with ur other eyes, so that you can appreciate the incredible achievement of the programme as a whole... how u can say the intro eclipses the 'photocgraphic entity' in assign.4 or the arrival of the 'Transuranics' in a later assign. crazy!
Ermm..voice-over man says "something somethin elements are available sometyhing something Sapphire and Steel are available". Since when has steel been an element?
Weird show though - loved it but never really understood what was going on
This seriously needs an ITV1 repeat rather than been left to deteriorate in some vault somewhere. I just hope some nobhead doesn't descide to remake and modernise it!!!
@yz25098uk could`nt have put it better myself. Ialso remember the dreadful remakes of the professionals and randall and hopkirk deceased. Why mess with perfection.
@rohedron you were lucky to be spared the trauma, it went way beyond awful, just like the Randall & Hopkirk remake. The dvds are the best as the Professionals is heavily edited on TV and one of the finest and most disturbing episodes ever made, "Klansmen" has never been aired on television.
This brings back memories! I've still got the episode about WW1 stuck in my head! Scared me with the singing of 'Pack up your troubles' and it still gives me the shivers when I hear it now!
scared the living daylights out of me - I vividly recall watching the second story set in a disused railway station - when I was 8!!. They used to put this on at 5:30 tea times! Can you believe that?! Wasn't allowed to watch it after that as i refused to sleep with the light off for the next two years! Finally tried to make sense of it when the videos (now the DVD set) came out and I got to watch all the stories. I understand it a bit better now but it still leaves a lot of questions!
im nun the wiser too, its a filthy habit...... lol, god this series used to sh*t me up as a kid, the weird pause and silences and low key acting, the bizarre plots ( and killer attacking pillows, remember?), great theme tune to set the atmosphere, and the crackling sexual chemistry between the too leads, tis program sends me way back, and yes no fancy special effects( they couldnt afford them hehe), its still great today, and im tingling with nostalgia from head to foot. great stuff!
Yes S & S was clever and all, but I couldn't help thinking at the time that there was a remarkable amount of talking and standing around quietly (watching a filmed insert repeat itself -sorry; 'allowing the 'event' to take place'). Confusing as, and not easy for a kid to bond with a couple of frosty, austere 'elements', either. Theme sounds a bit 'cornball 1960s', too.
This was the absolute best. No clever effects, really well thought out plots, engrossing stories. Peter Hammond (the creator) was also a writer on both series of "Torchwood"
Mmm. Yes, Sapphire and Steel. Much forgotten and under-rated. It was particularlty well acted and the 2 lead roles would never hear a word against it. It had integrity, good storylines and, for its late seventies/early eighties setting and time it had an off-the-wall quality that most viewers simply didnt "get". I think it set the tone for a refinement in TV science fiction and at the time it absolutely spanked Dr Who. Good post
Half of those 'elements' aren't elements at all - including Sapphire & Steel !
This made very little sense to me as a kid so I was made up when my son gave me a DVD of the whole series last Crimbo. I thought at last I'll be able to work out what the fuck was going on.
Watched the whole thing & I'm still none the wiser !
Steel is iron, Fe. Sapphire is the only one of the "elements" that isn't actually an element. The others - jet (carbon), radium, gold, silver, lead, and copper - are.
@AnElephantsChild yes, but remember that at one point in its history, humanity considered only four elements - earth, air, fire and water. It wasn't until some time later that true elements were laid out and observed. Also understand that the introductory statement could be made by a narrator that is either not human, or transcendental.
@AnElephantsChild "Half of those 'elements' aren't elements at all - including Sapphire & Steel!"
Half? Gold, lead, copper, jet (carbon), diamond (carbon), radium, steel (iron)... 7/8 so far. I'll grant you sapphire, which I think is aluminium oxide.
@CinnAlla Well it doesn't say they are elements, it says "Heavy Elements may not be used where there is life, medium atomic weights are available" so it doesn't say they are elements, they are the alternatives to the heavy elements to fix the problems, if that makes any kind of sense? lol
@AnElephantsChild I was in the same boat - about 8 when first broadcast, watched in my mid 20's on VHS, still confused and more than a little disappointed - seemed much more intense as a child (and without any yearning for the lovely Joanna Lumley as a kid)
It's OK, but comes across as a bit of a Doctor Who ripoff. It goes a lot for atmosphere without much of a clear back story. In that way it's like the X-Files.
I'm looking for the DVD as we speak! Although virtually unknown stateside (with the exception of British/cult TV buffs), this series is said to be the precursor to shows like THE X-FILES, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, LOST, and FRINGE. But reading about it on Wikipedia, it looks to be so much more; this series is in a class of its own! And what a great opening title! This is something that really should be sought out by any serious TV sci-fi fan; luckily, there are episodes here on YouTube.
That's the first ever title animation made using the medium of oil paint (and say it's acrylic)
I used to think 'god this looks complicated, never mid it's got purdey and the invisible man from uncle, I'll understand it when I'm growed up' I'm now grown up and I love it but you know
i was in School when i love to watched it and last episode upset me many years. Thanks for uploading it. i want to see more please upload more episodes. Thanks.
P.J. Hammond admitted in a recent tv interview ITV came close to re-making it but Hammond had issues with the creative process so it fell by the wayside. The new Dr. Who logo debuts tomorrow and supposedly the TARDIS console room is getting a makeover.
Sapphire & Steel... Amazing Duo! - I didn't like the spin-off series staring their counterparts/friends... I mean who remembers "Brick & Spunk"? or the short lived "Meat & Biscuits"? - The pilot for this show was failure, namely : "Kittens & Cheese"... luckily they changed the name, thank god :)
I think it used to terrify all of us when we were young. I first watched this in Wellington (NZ) in 1982 as a wee 7-year old and had nightmares for months afterwards.
Lol i used to watch this show too when i was about 7, i liked it alot and didn't find it scary. But one day my mom saw me watching the show and that was the end of it =DD
there's something about the start of that film that is incredibly moving. I cant describe it. its something to do with the animation and the voiceover. it makes me want to cry
(am i alone in this, because if so im just another freak :p)
You are absolutely not alone! This is another example of a time when tv drama was made with great skill and passion.This show in particular was very eerie and often disturbing.They really DONT make them like they used to!
these classic intros compared to intros in these days (and movie music generally).. Why does it have to be that annoying hi-fi symphony bullshit all over again in every movie nowadays :D symphony bullshit got no soul
Great opening titles, they set you up for what was to come, I used to love watching this show then a stupid ITV strike made me wait months to see the end of one story. They were quite long storys as I recall 8 episodes or so. Thank you for this. :)
sapphire and steel and the tomorrow people really inspired me to become the twisted individual I am today, I still think in the back of my mind its acually real and one day I am going to be recruited by a similar organisation of time travelling interdimensional overlords, I am almost ready to begin the transition.
Well the agency is full right now, we are busy training new recruits for an upcoming mission. HAHA just kidding, but I have to agree, except instead I would have said heroes instead of sapphire and steel. lol
yeah heroes is cool, yet the multiverse is at stake and heroes are just concerned with human affairs, as important as that is, they dont travel through other dimensions or maybe I need to catch up on the latest they are up to. The very name heroes reeks of human self importance, thats the reason the world is rotting, but if everyone really became heroes for good and peace and love, well who knows ...
no other dimensions, and you are right, human self importance was pretty much a theme in the last season. The first season approached what a true hero should be, not just someone with superpowers, like most of the characters, but someone dedicated to saving others even it they have no special powers. But regardless, I digress. Good show sapphire and steel, and man do I miss the Tomorrow People :)
me too... just got memories of a couple of episodes that scared me to death.. one in a deserted railway station with soldier from WW1 (dies 11 mins after peace was declared so his numbers were 11.11.11.11) and the second loads of people with no faces and soemthing to do with photographs!! Weird what you remember!
Ya..didnt you know that coolcelt? I used to love the greatest american hero as a child. It made me what I am today: a man that wears underpants outside his trousers
Surreal, a bit like Doctor Who written by Anthony Burgess.
Glenn1967ful 6 days ago
why dont the bbc remake this?..even the new audio range isnt half bad...it just what we need..spooky clausterphobic..timetravel...and while im at it doctor who needs to be totally re-imagined...back to basics
martystuart1000 3 weeks ago
@martystuart1000 this was an ITV series :-p (yes! ITV did Sci-fi once, incredible innit?!) It's all X Factor now :-(
Rumpio 2 days ago
anybody know the episode where the ww1 ghost was whistling ??
showusurkipper 2 months ago
@showusurkipper The one with the WW1 ghost is just called Adventure Two
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@showusurkipper The second one. Worth buying the DVDs for, really really good.
Rumpio 2 days ago
Just remembered how scared I was as a kid, watching the episode where WW1 ghosts arrive. Next: Triffids
LastUserNameChoice 2 months ago
@LastUserNameChoice I still tend to whistle that tune slower than its suposed to be cos of that show
themisspultone 2 months ago
I do understand this show made the reputation of Joanna Lumley, when she had just been thought of as window dressing on THE NEW AVENGERS.
tomservo56954 2 months ago
Still gives me the hebegeebees...and other things I can't spell.
WhitstableWilliams 3 months ago
Magnet and steel...
JonnyInfinite 3 months ago
I never understood this show..but I was only 6 at the time
matrixyoda 3 months ago
@matrixyoda If you look past the dated special effects, etc, there's still a good storyline underneath.
Tehui1974 3 months ago
i had my first handjob over Joanna Lumley ;-}
TheWezz69 4 months ago 3
i was 17 when i watched this, it sent chills down my spine
kingiescastel 4 months ago
This was too creepy especially when you were only 8
jacksiin1000 4 months ago
Writers were high on something when they sold this to ITV
jacksiin1000 4 months ago
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I am sure the writers of this were heavily on "illegal substances"
jacksiin1000 4 months ago
I am sure the writers of this were heavily on "illegal substances"
jacksiin1000 4 months ago
remember their evil twin counterparts, gusset and biscuits?
HumpsBlowdoll 5 months ago
ok who here thinks that classic tv series' are 10x better than remakes...
ctrl450 5 months ago 12
Brillaint show, scared me so much, very creepy.
missjacko1 5 months ago
A classic example of cult T.V. that lives in my memories and many others as I can see from this. This was brilliant i loved the ww1 ghost story of the lost soldier that unleashes a melevolent force.
niceone1100 5 months ago
Oh my God this brings back memories. I used to love this show. Never understood it though. Must look at it again from an adults point of view and see if it makes any more sense now. Somehow I doubt it.
annawysteria2000 5 months ago
One of the best TV shows ever made. It didn't make sense...which was a really good thing. TV producers should take note of that fact. Making perfect sense is not always a good thing.
straker2 6 months ago 2
this program used to scare the living shit out of me
mrmalade 6 months ago 2
And they say the Prisoner doesn't make sense - try this series on instead...
Remember the haunted train station – that one was well creepy !
But PLEASE don't make a remake - the NEW Prisoner and the NEW Thunderbird movie (both total crap) have shown the world it's never a good idea to mess with a classic
mikeismad61 6 months ago
@mikeismad61 Yes I remember the station episode.Christ that shit me up as a ten yr old. wasnt it about a ww1 dead soldier? happy days hey,
bloomersthebear 6 months ago 4
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On yes - I enjoyed them but their a bit vague in my memory now - my folks weren't really fans and were talking of the days when families had just one telly. Have you seen them on DVD ? Is the quality any good? I suspect not..anyone seen them?
mikeismad61 6 months ago
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I used to watch this show but couldn't ( as a kid) understand much about it. I am 40 now ! There was one programme a bit earlier that is bugging me. It was a creepy show where there was a round piece of plastic on a window and it was somehow magic ? Does anyone remember that show ?
hartnell 7 months ago
this was a fantastic show
swedishchefcook 7 months ago
Doctor Who me bollix! This was fucking brilliant TV full of atmosphere and creepy suspense. Doctor Who had shite aliens and annoying guest stars. Also it wasn't worth a wet wank on a wednesday the moment Tom Baker did a bolt. Doctor Who? Get off the fuckin bus!
BaronVonPenguin 8 months ago
Me aND ONE OF THE CREW AT work tyheo ther day were talking about this and I told him my birthstone'sd sapphire.
VANHELSING433 8 months ago
ITV trying desparately to create a new rival show to the BBC's 'Doctor Who' after the Tomorrow People finally flopped out of existance!
After this one went the way of the dodo they gave up! and even Doctor Who faded into oblivion for a few years, until Christopher Ecclestone brought the Who series back in a MASSIVE way back in 2005!!
I believe Matt Smith has already sacked Doctor Who and a replacement is being negotiated. Also a Doctor Who movie is currently in the planning stages.
xanderxine 8 months ago
@xanderxine hey where did you hear this from? matt smith is leaving doctor who after series six?
doctorw2 8 months ago
@xanderxine Their no truth to Matt smith sacking if you watch the one show he is very happy in the role
Shazam961 7 months ago
@Shazam961 I never said Smith got sacked I said he sacked the show!! he said it last year after completing his first season but the beeb didnt want another one season Doctor like Ecclestone. So he was pursuaded to do at least one more which they have decided to split into two to stretch it out up to its 13th episode which will be aired on Christmas day when Smith will leave and regenerate into...
xanderxine 7 months ago
@xanderxine Hey I believe on the basis of what he said on the One Show all I know he very happy Being Doctor Who I think you got your facts wrong mate, would be headline news in england if he wanted to leave, I mean he a young actor and he got a big future ahead of him, I mean he was 26 when he got the job I see him be Doctor Who well into his early 30's. So I'm sure where you got this notion of him leaving after season, but its not true. that is that
Shazam961 7 months ago
@Shazam961
type this in adress bar... vvvvvv.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3056595/MATT-SMITH-is-ready-to-quit-as-Doctor-Who-to-crack-Hollywood.html - the 'w' at the begining are actually two v
He blurted it out it last year but was told to keep shtumn by the BBC until he had fulfilled his contract and they had found a replacement by the end of 2011. He then said he had changed his mind and would stay on but that was just to satisfy his bosses!
Smith we leave the show this year!!
xanderxine 7 months ago
@xanderxine Well you know I think he would be mad to do so I can understand his desire to do other things but now their are so many fans that has accepted him as the sucessor to David tennant's doctor they would be mad if he did leave like this my money is that he will stay for another 3 more years in which he be in his 30. So sorry I just don't believe what you have said until I hear it from the horse mouth simple as that
Shazam961 7 months ago
Wow, the intro makes no sense at all...no wonder it died a quick death.
Credithelper75 8 months ago
@Credithelper75 this is a brilliant intro very dramatic this is a brilliant show it should never had been cancelled at all becuase it was a unique complex sci fi programme i was very cross with itv when they gave it the chop this show didnt deserve that.
doctorw2 8 months ago
The voice sounds like Tom Baker (incidentaly my birthstone happens to be Sapphire). FUCK SIMON COWELL! ITV SHOULD BRING THIS BACK!!
VANHELSING433 9 months ago
Love it! Its some kinda X files mixed with the twilight zone
lauritatobarnoguera 10 months ago
THis and Hammer House of Horror used to scare the crap out of me when I was a young kid! They should be remade.
masere 11 months ago
Anyone remember the spin-off series "Brick and Spunk" ? - bloody idiots the pair of them, the remake was even worse "Domestos and Cake" awful, the 1980 annual i had featured Sapphire and Steel's not so clever counterparts "Custard and Dung" which was actually quite nice, i mean good... no I'm confused, oh god I'm getting the fear...
gan9e 11 months ago 21
@gan9e Or the spin-off spin-off series, 'Tits and Arse'. Joanna Lumley would star.
Franks559 10 months ago 2
@gan9e lol....
HumpsBlowdoll 5 months ago
Thes searies used to SCARE THE BAHEEBIES OUT OF ME! When I was young (around the 90's) we had thistv channel that showed old tv shows, and this was my favorite. This and the invisible man XD but even today, I remember being very disturbed and frightened by the episodes, yet I always tuned in when it was on XD even today, my memries might have warped a little, but that just justifies what images it conjured in my mind! I so hope to see them again!
narmolania 11 months ago 3
Ahhh, David McCallum, eh? He was pretty good in Man from Uncle. And he had a great part in that Outer Limits episode, The Sixth Finger.
aculturemind 1 year ago
A great series, I am currently listening to the new Sapphire and Steel big finish audio adventures, well worth a listen
zagreus316 1 year ago
The best one was "adventure 5" when they were at the dinner party...A relative of David McCallum lived near my parents and, as a 6 year old in 1980, seeing Steel come out from a house along the road one day, I ran home in terror.
psychonaut3 1 year ago 2
turns out my birthstone's sapphire
VANHELSING433 1 year ago
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The faceless guy who got at you through photos and took your face! If I recall it correctly S&S tricked him into a photo which they put into a box (they couldn't kill him) needing to imprison him somewhere safe immediately where he won't be found and unleashed on the world again. They detect a ship is about to sink in deep art of the ocean and it won't be discovered for for 55 years - It'll have to do and they teleport the box to the doomed ship.
ZoggZoggZogg 1 year ago
The woman who has survived this ordeal is told to "Destroy all photos of yourself. And never be photographed again!" I still think about that every time I have my photo taken! There's your Return of Sapphire and Steel; James Cameron finding the box at the bottom of the ocean. Now if only S&S could escape limbo to save him...
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ZoggZoggZogg 1 year ago
Yes. I understand now. I didn't when I was 12, but I do now I'm 42.*
*This is a lie. i still don't understand but since everyone else seems to I'll just look thick if I admit it.
TheFederalDrugs 1 year ago
As a child I used to be TERRIFIED of the opening credits of ITV's World of Sport. Especially on rainy Saturdays when my Dad was in. I was in for an afternoon of unrelenting BOREDOM...
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
you have been warned this tv series is funky and sexy and great and makes LOST make sense? Never watched LOST as i was found to be happy.
5554132 1 year ago
With technology and CGI today.... Surely this prog should be remade... so much potential !!
smidsyonfire 1 year ago
I am only 21 and from the US so I didn't know about this show- I met Joanna Lumley only two days ago and she is so sweet and nice! I didn't know she was so beautiful
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slanderousndgs 1 year ago
this show was just as good as doctor who both sapphire and steel were like timelords that actualy used their powers over time to fight evil if atv had given this series a chance to develop it would have lasted as long as doctor who and i would have been given a chance to see the other time elementals silver was everyones favorite but, we never got a chance to see all the others or the person that gave them their assignments.
doctorw2 1 year ago
@doctorw2 Jet had an outing in the first adventure, and others were mentioned. Sapphire and Steel weren't lords of time though, if they had been they would have been able to escape the transients trap. The programme might have gone on, but for ATV losing their broadcast licence and Central TV not wanting to take S&S beyond a sixth adventure.
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@psychonaut3 if they are not going to remake this series they should at least make novels of it so i can read them.
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buchananfibbing 1 year ago
FUCKING HELL!!! Thats some TROLLOPING SCARY music!! ShiiiiiiiiiiiT!!!! ;P
ariesscorpiorising 1 year ago
That clip raised the hairs on the back on my neck. That music presaged half an hour being shit scared when I was a little kid, haha!
croydonrudeness 1 year ago
Best part of the entire series.
boomshanka 1 year ago
@boomshanka hey boom shanka... u mite need to watch again, this time with ur other eyes, so that you can appreciate the incredible achievement of the programme as a whole... how u can say the intro eclipses the 'photocgraphic entity' in assign.4 or the arrival of the 'Transuranics' in a later assign. crazy!
rohedron 1 year ago
what a powerful tune
a217andy 1 year ago
Sapphire and Steel, The Tomorrow People, BUGS and Doctor Who are great shows. If you like some of them you'll like the others
ClubPenguinStevie422 1 year ago
Even for today, thats some good effects.
y0urtubes 1 year ago
Ermm..voice-over man says "something somethin elements are available sometyhing something Sapphire and Steel are available". Since when has steel been an element?
Weird show though - loved it but never really understood what was going on
olracuk 1 year ago
Where can I find the spanish translation?
jimmyba3 1 year ago
This seriously needs an ITV1 repeat rather than been left to deteriorate in some vault somewhere. I just hope some nobhead doesn't descide to remake and modernise it!!!
VANHELSING433 1 year ago
@VANHELSING433
100% right.
everything 'remade' is totally shite, and loses all conection with teh ORIGINAL thing!!
get carter,wicker man.etc etc....
yz25098uk 1 year ago
@yz25098uk could`nt have put it better myself. Ialso remember the dreadful remakes of the professionals and randall and hopkirk deceased. Why mess with perfection.
HenryVIII1971 1 year ago
@HenryVIII1971 they remade the professionals? glad i missed that one.
rohedron 1 year ago
@rohedron you were lucky to be spared the trauma, it went way beyond awful, just like the Randall & Hopkirk remake. The dvds are the best as the Professionals is heavily edited on TV and one of the finest and most disturbing episodes ever made, "Klansmen" has never been aired on television.
HenryVIII1971 1 year ago
@yz25098uk Wrong. 3 words= New Doctor Who
It has connections with the classic series and continues the same things and it's even better! and remade sci-fi's arnt bad.
If ITV or BBC made this with the same writer it would be great!
ClubPenguinStevie422 1 year ago
cool!
adric137 1 year ago
Awesome series this one.
fango2006 1 year ago
This brings back memories! I've still got the episode about WW1 stuck in my head! Scared me with the singing of 'Pack up your troubles' and it still gives me the shivers when I hear it now!
dannysteacher 1 year ago 2
hello,thats the one that has bugged me for years,now i found on here its still does that.
lordhendry 1 year ago
@dannysteacher Yes I remember that one too. Didnt know what was going on but it scared the life out of me !
xaltotunofpython 1 year ago
scared the living daylights out of me - I vividly recall watching the second story set in a disused railway station - when I was 8!!. They used to put this on at 5:30 tea times! Can you believe that?! Wasn't allowed to watch it after that as i refused to sleep with the light off for the next two years! Finally tried to make sense of it when the videos (now the DVD set) came out and I got to watch all the stories. I understand it a bit better now but it still leaves a lot of questions!
jimmybisk 1 year ago 3
@jimmybisk
i remember that one n im 46, now livin in Auss, lol, was awesome,Dr Who n the deamons scared the shit out of me for yrs lol, cheers
gosst60 1 year ago
@jimmybisk its a thing of great wonder alright
rohedron 1 year ago
nosecar10 Great intro with 2 great actors
pudseybear13 1 year ago
im nun the wiser too, its a filthy habit...... lol, god this series used to sh*t me up as a kid, the weird pause and silences and low key acting, the bizarre plots ( and killer attacking pillows, remember?), great theme tune to set the atmosphere, and the crackling sexual chemistry between the too leads, tis program sends me way back, and yes no fancy special effects( they couldnt afford them hehe), its still great today, and im tingling with nostalgia from head to foot. great stuff!
memyselfandeye3 1 year ago
Another sci fi show which took second place to Doctor Who...as do most others wherever they originate....
David Collins is always good for a view though...
xenbear 1 year ago
This used to scare the bejesus out of me as a kid!!!!!
barbiegirl73 1 year ago
Yes S & S was clever and all, but I couldn't help thinking at the time that there was a remarkable amount of talking and standing around quietly (watching a filmed insert repeat itself -sorry; 'allowing the 'event' to take place'). Confusing as, and not easy for a kid to bond with a couple of frosty, austere 'elements', either. Theme sounds a bit 'cornball 1960s', too.
Slammerworm1 1 year ago
Aw man this looks cool, I don't think we had it in the states.
NavinJohnson90 1 year ago
This was the absolute best. No clever effects, really well thought out plots, engrossing stories. Peter Hammond (the creator) was also a writer on both series of "Torchwood"
EEWW2006 1 year ago
Mmm. Yes, Sapphire and Steel. Much forgotten and under-rated. It was particularlty well acted and the 2 lead roles would never hear a word against it. It had integrity, good storylines and, for its late seventies/early eighties setting and time it had an off-the-wall quality that most viewers simply didnt "get". I think it set the tone for a refinement in TV science fiction and at the time it absolutely spanked Dr Who. Good post
flashtheoriginal 1 year ago 2
I think you'll find that technically sapphire is a mineral and steel is an alloy.........!
6856victoria 1 year ago
Used to watch this show with my mum when I was a kid! Good times!!!
mwiffen37 2 years ago 2
The mystique lives on...
Fergus8O8 2 years ago
who is the voice over, he sounds familiar?
voicemasteruk 2 years ago
Half of those 'elements' aren't elements at all - including Sapphire & Steel !
This made very little sense to me as a kid so I was made up when my son gave me a DVD of the whole series last Crimbo. I thought at last I'll be able to work out what the fuck was going on.
Watched the whole thing & I'm still none the wiser !
AnElephantsChild 2 years ago 19
@AnElephantsChild
Steel is iron, Fe. Sapphire is the only one of the "elements" that isn't actually an element. The others - jet (carbon), radium, gold, silver, lead, and copper - are.
CinnAlla 1 year ago
@AnElephantsChild yes, but remember that at one point in its history, humanity considered only four elements - earth, air, fire and water. It wasn't until some time later that true elements were laid out and observed. Also understand that the introductory statement could be made by a narrator that is either not human, or transcendental.
caclark2007 8 months ago
@AnElephantsChild "Half of those 'elements' aren't elements at all - including Sapphire & Steel!"
Half? Gold, lead, copper, jet (carbon), diamond (carbon), radium, steel (iron)... 7/8 so far. I'll grant you sapphire, which I think is aluminium oxide.
CinnAlla 7 months ago
@CinnAlla Well it doesn't say they are elements, it says "Heavy Elements may not be used where there is life, medium atomic weights are available" so it doesn't say they are elements, they are the alternatives to the heavy elements to fix the problems, if that makes any kind of sense? lol
giles852002 7 months ago
@giles852002 That's another good point. :)
CinnAlla 7 months ago
@AnElephantsChild I was in the same boat - about 8 when first broadcast, watched in my mid 20's on VHS, still confused and more than a little disappointed - seemed much more intense as a child (and without any yearning for the lovely Joanna Lumley as a kid)
briancromack 4 months ago
The voice belongs to Steve Hudson, now CEO of Voice Master, creator of the only technique in the world for voiceovers.
voicemasteruk 2 years ago
It's OK, but comes across as a bit of a Doctor Who ripoff. It goes a lot for atmosphere without much of a clear back story. In that way it's like the X-Files.
nineteenthly 2 years ago
A lot of this stuff is dated, but the storylines remain strong. Very original.
Tehui1974 2 years ago
Good show!
CheylaFagundez1 2 years ago
I'm looking for the DVD as we speak! Although virtually unknown stateside (with the exception of British/cult TV buffs), this series is said to be the precursor to shows like THE X-FILES, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, LOST, and FRINGE. But reading about it on Wikipedia, it looks to be so much more; this series is in a class of its own! And what a great opening title! This is something that really should be sought out by any serious TV sci-fi fan; luckily, there are episodes here on YouTube.
EthanTheHobo 2 years ago 2
That's the first ever title animation made using the medium of oil paint (and say it's acrylic)
I used to think 'god this looks complicated, never mid it's got purdey and the invisible man from uncle, I'll understand it when I'm growed up' I'm now grown up and I love it but you know
MrMeefos 2 years ago
which was the episode with the girl with no eyes (or mayby face?), my sister and i shat ourselves and were too scared to ever watch it ever again!
controlremot3 2 years ago 2
I think that was the 7th adventure, featuring the faceless man who trapped people in photographs. Very creepy.
Samsaptaka 2 years ago
I remember this episode. Creepy indeed. In fact this is the only episode I have some vivid memory off
HangJebat1976 2 years ago
i was in School when i love to watched it and last episode upset me many years. Thanks for uploading it. i want to see more please upload more episodes. Thanks.
lovelytuberoses 2 years ago
Bits I remember - Lead was played by a large black man.
Silver turns up in one episode, and he's a smart guy, but a little smug. He knows more about Steel's powers than Steel does.
"Trans-Uranics cannot be used where there is life" was to do with the fact that I think they emitted radiation!
They were even stronger than Lead, and I think it was two or three rebel Trans-Uranics that trap Sapphire and Steel in the last episode.
frostek 2 years ago
@frostek - it was explained in the first story that they 'can never rely on the trans-uranics, as they were unstable!!
jimmybisk 1 year ago
This deserves a remake. SHould ITV ever decide to bring it back, finally they will have something worthy of taking on Doctor Who
houtakiboy 2 years ago 7
P.J. Hammond admitted in a recent tv interview ITV came close to re-making it but Hammond had issues with the creative process so it fell by the wayside. The new Dr. Who logo debuts tomorrow and supposedly the TARDIS console room is getting a makeover.
Melville10 2 years ago
@houtakiboy The Big Finsh audio stories are a good alternative:)
giles852002 7 months ago
@houtakiboy You should check out the audiobooks. Steel is played by DAVID WARNER.
Takeshi357 6 months ago
Dark Place Dark Place Dark Place...lol!
numberstation 2 years ago
In the background, is that... Dark Helmet?
SecretTheatre 2 years ago
Sapphire & Steel... Amazing Duo! - I didn't like the spin-off series staring their counterparts/friends... I mean who remembers "Brick & Spunk"? or the short lived "Meat & Biscuits"? - The pilot for this show was failure, namely : "Kittens & Cheese"... luckily they changed the name, thank god :)
b6gm6n 2 years ago
I think it used to terrify all of us when we were young. I first watched this in Wellington (NZ) in 1982 as a wee 7-year old and had nightmares for months afterwards.
MALOSINZ 2 years ago
Lol i used to watch this show too when i was about 7, i liked it alot and didn't find it scary. But one day my mom saw me watching the show and that was the end of it =DD
kaapomakkara 2 years ago
i was only 5 years old watching this show ,now that is back in my memory i am scare as much as i was scare wathing this show back then ...
Fuzzyboy1976 2 years ago 2
Sapphire and steel aren't chemical elements!
El135o 2 years ago 3
we know..saddly, silver and xenon don't sound that good
artoons1 2 years ago
Actually, it does rather ...
El135o 2 years ago
This used to scare me! I was about 10-years old! I remember the "faceless man"
TzeffNL 2 years ago 7
This is amazing!
BritishCultTVForum 2 years ago
YES Charlie Brooker. YES.
ElWeasle 2 years ago 10
reminds me of the start of the Watership down film
arnoldlayne1991 2 years ago 3
Weird coincidence. You're right, it is like that and I was looking at that on Youtube only yesterday.
Spoooooky!
(I'm telling the truth!)
sibeliandrift 2 years ago
there's something about the start of that film that is incredibly moving. I cant describe it. its something to do with the animation and the voiceover. it makes me want to cry
(am i alone in this, because if so im just another freak :p)
arnoldlayne1991 2 years ago
No you're not alone, it's beautiful.
I've gotten worse over the years with that film actually. It was pretty moving when I was young, but now I can barely watch it without tearing up!
sibeliandrift 2 years ago
i watched it a lot when i was young. brings back the memories
arnoldlayne1991 2 years ago
You are absolutely not alone! This is another example of a time when tv drama was made with great skill and passion.This show in particular was very eerie and often disturbing.They really DONT make them like they used to!
ianwr000 2 years ago 3
I had absolutely no idea the memory of that intro was in my head until I just saw it. I'm scared.
BorisTrousers 2 years ago 3
Here is the News at Ten, with Charlie Brooker.
garyskirk 2 years ago 30
Following him on Twitter, then? xD
ASecondOpinion1501 2 years ago 6
Oh yeah, I saw that Twitter feed.
JRedmond1212 2 years ago
Yeah, that was a good one. He's right.
Nearside 2 years ago
Arg! what did he say? Is there a link?
sibeliandrift 2 years ago
@garyskirk what has charlie brooker got to do with it - atomic waste may be used
geoffdoor 11 months ago
@geoffdoor Charlie Brooker. Remember him?
Franks559 10 months ago
Used to find the music scary as a child.
athene2300 2 years ago
Joanna Lumley was one of the most beautiful creatures on 70s TV screens
BigDeanoSyd 2 years ago 19
@BigDeanoSyd
And amazingly she still is, at the age of 65 she is still incredibly stunning :)
proff180 10 months ago
@proff180 Bond girls never lose it.
Franks559 10 months ago
SO GOOD!!!
Nikko290 2 years ago
these classic intros compared to intros in these days (and movie music generally).. Why does it have to be that annoying hi-fi symphony bullshit all over again in every movie nowadays :D symphony bullshit got no soul
viinikellari 2 years ago 2
Great opening titles, they set you up for what was to come, I used to love watching this show then a stupid ITV strike made me wait months to see the end of one story. They were quite long storys as I recall 8 episodes or so. Thank you for this. :)
Jeskaeon 2 years ago 3
sapphire and steel and the tomorrow people really inspired me to become the twisted individual I am today, I still think in the back of my mind its acually real and one day I am going to be recruited by a similar organisation of time travelling interdimensional overlords, I am almost ready to begin the transition.
signalfuture 3 years ago 5
Don't worry, were watching you!
djalice 3 years ago
okay, when will it be time to start?
signalfuture 3 years ago
As soon as we get a grip of human syntax judging by my last post :-)
djalice 3 years ago
Well the agency is full right now, we are busy training new recruits for an upcoming mission. HAHA just kidding, but I have to agree, except instead I would have said heroes instead of sapphire and steel. lol
yougosquishnow 3 years ago
yeah heroes is cool, yet the multiverse is at stake and heroes are just concerned with human affairs, as important as that is, they dont travel through other dimensions or maybe I need to catch up on the latest they are up to. The very name heroes reeks of human self importance, thats the reason the world is rotting, but if everyone really became heroes for good and peace and love, well who knows ...
signalfuture 3 years ago
no other dimensions, and you are right, human self importance was pretty much a theme in the last season. The first season approached what a true hero should be, not just someone with superpowers, like most of the characters, but someone dedicated to saving others even it they have no special powers. But regardless, I digress. Good show sapphire and steel, and man do I miss the Tomorrow People :)
yougosquishnow 3 years ago
I thought steel was an alloy, not an element
(Iron being an element of steel)
too anal ?
sue me !
LoL
bigzebb 3 years ago
Neither are jet, diamond or sapphire, elements. First two are formed out of coal and the third is an aluminium oxide
Sainigma 3 years ago
Of course you`re ght, I was just trying to see if anyone is awake !
grins
bigzebb 3 years ago
me too... just got memories of a couple of episodes that scared me to death.. one in a deserted railway station with soldier from WW1 (dies 11 mins after peace was declared so his numbers were 11.11.11.11) and the second loads of people with no faces and soemthing to do with photographs!! Weird what you remember!
jrdbish 3 years ago
I was scared shitless as well. Pretty impressive stuff when you're 11 or something.
Efrasnel 3 years ago
This show used to scare the shit outta me...
porkisgood4u 3 years ago 2
box in a box
alexjonesretard 3 years ago
When I was a ten-year-old kid this was my biggest favorite. Thanks to this I am what I am nowadays: a psychic.
11Arcturus 3 years ago
A tv programme made you a psychic. My word tv knows no bounds does it.
coolcelt 3 years ago
Oh Christ, if i'd a pound for every female that told me she was psychic...
catblanket14uk 3 years ago 3
true that brother..
bumfilmpoo 3 years ago
Lol! Usually on a first date too.
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
Ya..didnt you know that coolcelt? I used to love the greatest american hero as a child. It made me what I am today: a man that wears underpants outside his trousers
SilvestriHiberni 3 years ago