Sapphire.and.Steel.The.Complete.Series.[1979-1982]DVDRip.H264(BINGOWINGZ-UKB-RG)

Release Title:

Sapphire.and.Steel.The.Complete.Series.[1979-1982]DVDRip.H264(BINGOWINGZ-UKB-RG)

TV Air Date:

(1979–1982)

Genre:

TV Series | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

RunTime:

25 Minutes x34

Complex, involved science-fiction series about a
special force of interdimensional operatives
whose task is to protect the universe from evil
forces trying to gain a foothold by disrupting
the timeline. The strange energy beings are
assigned to cases, when and where needed, and
materialise on Earth as humans, each with specialist
abilities to ascertain and then solve the problems.
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.
Their most-dangerous challenge, innocuous-seeming
at first, is a petrol station whose time-line is
repeating endlessly - and which turns out to be a
major hazard, set by unknown forces, to trap
Sapphire and Steel in a closed time-loop forever...

SERIES OVERVIEW:

When the final, definitive work on science-fiction
television is written, the only series that will
stand any chance of matching THE PRISONER for sheer
bloody-minded impenetrability will be SAPPHIRE AND
STEEL. Time elementals (except neither steel nor
sapphire are elements of course) who go to the
scenes of time breaches and put them right, fighting
alien forces not fully understood for an agency that
is never seen for reasons that are never given. Hell,
the stories and episodes don't even have titles,
that's how enigmatic this all is.

SAPPHIRE AND STEEL started off as a children's drama,
something that is clearly visible in the first adventure,
but it quickly transcended that. All of the future shows
were written for decidedly adult audiences. The episodes
were transmitted (in the UK) on weekday evenings, usually
twice a week, and rarely left the viewer any closer to
understanding what was going on than at the start. They
were, and still are due to their enigmatic nature,
compulsive viewing.

All of this disdain for audience understanding could
have been seriously distancing for the show, but it
is blessed with two leads who are quite perfectly
cast and fill out the roles with such skill that you
quickly connect with them, even if you don't know
them any better by each passing show. Steel is played
by David McCallum of MAN FROM UNCLE and THE INVISIBLE
MAN fame and is the nominal leader of the pair
(or team when other elementals Lead and Silver-not
elements either-show up to help). Like his name, he is
cold and hard, doing what has to be done without
thinking of the emotional or human cost. Complementing
him is Sapphire, played by Joanna Lumley, later to
become even more famous in Absolutely Fabulous. 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. She is also a mistress of time, able to
pause it, or even to take it back, though only in
limited terms.

Around these two central characters, the rest of the,
usually small, casts revolve in claustrophobic tales
of mystery that never become clear. Victory is never
quite assured, often not total and rarely without a
price. These are the things that really lift SAPPHIRE
AND STEEL above some other genre shows.

Being of its time, budgets are low and special effects
are variable, but are rarely used. That said, all this
works for the show, trapping us in a few rooms with
something we'd rather not be with. Our only hope is
two people who are not what they seem and may not
even care what happens to us as long as they succeed
in their task. We shall not see their like again,
though we never saw their like before either.
SAPPHIRE AND STEEL is uniquely itself and to be
cherished for that.

David McCallum ... Steel (34 episodes, 1979-1982)
Joanna Lumley ... Sapphire (34 episodes, 1979-1982)

Original SOURCE:

harryfan/Sapphire & Steel (1979-1982) 4xDVD9 2xDVD5/NTSC < Cheers

Video:

MP4/H264/720*400/29fps

Audio:

AAC/2ch/128Kbps

Sample Included:

Yes

File Size:

250MB x34 (8.34GB)