I am continuing to use the term "episode" here as I have elsewhere on PopApostle, as a separable piece in the continuous narrative of a larger story, whether it be television episode or other media.
Sapphire & Steel aired a total of six serialized stories and were written without titles. The British home video releases refer to each serial as simply "Assignment" or "Adventure" I-VI. At some point, many fans started using names for each serial in order to make them easier to identify in discussions. I have used both the Assignment number and the fan title of each serial for these studies.
The series itself was conceived by creator Peter J. Hammond under the working title The Time Menders.
Each episode began with the curious preamble, "All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."
Opening preamble: Sapphire-and-Steel-have-been-assigned.mp3
Sapphire & Steel 2005-2008 Studies (Audio drama serials)
Click here for the televsion and comic strip studies
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"The Passenger" Part 1 |
"The Passenger" Part 2 |
"The Passenger" Part 3 |
"The Passenger" Part 4 |
"Daisy Chain" Part 1 |
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| After a lengthy absence, Sapphire and Steel return to work aboard a steam train bound for murder. | The operative Gold arrives on the train to lend a rogue hand to Sapphire and Steel. | Gold finds himself removed from the equation by Time. | Sapphire and Steel find themselves powerless to stop Time's plan. But what about Gold? | Sapphire and Steel investigate an incursion in suburbia. | ||||||||||
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"Daisy Chain" Part 2 |
"Daisy Chain" Part 3 |
"Daisy Chain" Part 4 |
"All Fall Down" Part 1 |
"All Fall Down" Part 2 |
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| Patience wears thin at the Sowersby home. | Events take a sinister turn at the Sowersby home. | The plot reaches a devastating end. | Sapphire, Steel, and Silver must find the Time trigger in a warehouse-sized archive of old material. | The mystery at the London archives deepens. | ||||||||||
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"All Fall Down" Part 3 |
"All Fall Down" Part 4 |
"The Lighthouse" Part 1 |
"The Lighthouse" Part 2 |
"Dead Man Walking" Part 1 |
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| Steel succumbs to the plague. | Sapphire walks through a time passage that takes her to 1665. | A time storm strikes an old lighthouse. | Sapphire and Steel realize the Time incursion at the lighthouse has three triggers and they must identify all three to stop Time. | Sapphire and Steel investigate a prison where time is full of contradictions. | ||||||||||
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"Dead Man Walking" Part 2 |
"The School" Part 1 |
"The School" Part 2 |
"The School" Part 3 |
"The School" Part 4 |
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| Steel gets trapped in a time contradiction and faces death. | A public school's 100th anniversary presents a special moment in time. | Sapphire becomes infected with the emotions of the school's past students. | Sapphire and Steel begin to fall under the spell of the school. | The secret of the school is finally revealed. | ||||||||||
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"The Surest Poison" Part 1 |
"The Surest Poison" Part 2 |
"The Surest Poison" Part 3 |
"The Surest Poison" Part 4 |
"Water Like a Stone" Part 1 |
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| What does Time have to do with a watch? | Sapphire and Steel travel back in time through the power of the Breguet watches. | In 1802, Madame Breguet tightens her control over Abraham-Louis Breguet and his work on the Salomons watches. | Sapphire destroys the Salomons watches, but their Time contamination does not return to the source quite the way she expected. | Sapphire and Steel investigate a disturbance at an old theatre. | ||||||||||
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"Water Like a Stone" Part 2 |
"Water Like a Stone" Part 3 |
"Water Like a Stone" Part 4 |
"Cruel Immortality" Part 1 |
"Cruel Immortality" Part 2 |
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| Sapphire finds herself trapped in the world of the novel Great Expectations. | Ruby comes to a startling realization. | The play comes to an end. | After Sapphire goes missing, Steel finds himself in a time-trapped retirement home. | Steel finds that the retirement home is a cruel prison. | ||||||||||
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"Cruel Immortality" Part 3 |
"Cruel Immortality" Part 4 |
"Perfect Day" Part 1 |
"Perfect Day" Part 2 |
"Perfect Day" Part 3 |
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| Steel brings Mrs. P's memories back, but what can she do in her elderly, powerless body? | Mrs. P has one final trick up her sleeve. | Sapphire and Steel find themselves at a strange wedding. | The wedding guests relive the wedding yet again, with a pair of new guests in attendance. | Gold finds himself trapped in the ship-in-a-bottle while Sapphire and Steel are on a mission to destroy the bottle and everything in it. | ||||||||||
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"Perfect Day" Part 4 |
"The Mystery of the Missing Hour" Part 1 |
"The Mystery of the Missing Hour" Part 2 |
"The Mystery of the Missing Hour" Part 3 |
"Second Sight" Part 1 |
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| Sapphire and Steel face off against a splinter of time. | A murder at a Cairo hotel brings Shuffle and Sixpence to investigate. | Shuffle and Sixpence seem to come to a premature deduction about the murderer. | The mystery is finally solved, but at what cost to Sapphire and Steel? | A new Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. | ||||||||||
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"Second Sight" Part 2 |
"Second Sight" Part 3 |
"Second Sight" Part 4 |
"Remember Me" Part 1 |
"Remember Me" Part 2 |
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| Ruby joins our new, intrepid pair for the investigation and Sapphire is not happy about it. | Ruby takes charge and begins to piece together a deception taking place. | Sapphire and Steel meet Sapphire and Steel. | Sapphire and Steel visit a seaside pier entertainment venue for a documentary interview with an old comedian. | Sapphire and Steel make a startling realization about their current situation. | ||||||||||
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"Remember Me" Part 3 |
"Remember Me" Part 4 |
"Zero" Part 1 |
"Zero" Part 2 |
"Zero" Part 3 |
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| Second time around. | Sapphire and Steel find the fix...or do they? | A space shuttle appears to be under attack by Time and Silver and Gold are assigned to investigate. | Steel takes a risk and depends on Gold for survival. | Gold betrays Steel and Silver, then sets his sights on Sapphire. | ||||||||||
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"Zero" Part 4 |
"Wall of Darkness" Part 1 |
"Wall of Darkness" Part 2 |
"Wall of Darkness" Part 3 |
"Wall of Darkness" Part 4 |
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| The space shuttle Aspirant comes to the end of its journey, with Gold in command. | Sapphire and Steel receive an assignment in San Francisco, United States. | Steel makes a shocking discovery on the surface. | Sapphire and Steel are stranded in separate alternate timelines. | Steel comes to a realization. | ||||||||||
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