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Sapphire & Steel
"Dead Man Walking" Part 2
Audio drama
Big Finish Productions
Written and directed by Nigel Fairs
September 2005 |
Steel gets trapped in a time contradiction and faces death.
Didja Know?
The title of this storyline,
"Dead Man Walking", comes from a term used in U.S. prisons
applied to convicted criminals sentenced to the death penalty.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Michael Kent
Marian Anderson
Sapphire
Warden
Hanmore
Silver
Stuart
Kilsby (mentioned only, deceased)
Steel
Marcus Jackson
Tucker (mentioned only)
priest
Ian Jackson
Steven Arnold (mentioned only)
Maureen Jackson (dies in this episode)
Mrs. Hanmore (on phone only)
Didja Notice?
Warden
Hanmore tells Silver that hanging was abolished in England
in 1965. This occurred in the Murder (Abolition of Death
Penalty) Act 1965.
At about 14:59 in the episode, Warden Hanmore asks Marian,
"Who was it that said that Mozart's music was the voice of
God?" and Marian responds she doesn't know but suggests it
may have been in a play or movie. She is right. The quote
"This was a music I had never heard. Filled with such
longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I
was hearing the voice of God," was made by Antonio
Salieri in the 1984 film Amadeus (based on the 1979
play of the same name). Salieri (1750-1825) was a
contemporary and associate of composer of Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart (1756-1791), though as far as is known, he did not
make such a statement.
At the end of the episode, a radio finishes playing "The
Defensive Shroud" for cello and strings by Johann Douglas
performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Bernard Edwards. This appears to be a fictitious piece by
fictitious people, though there was an American musician of
largely rock/jazz/blues influence named Bernard Edwards
(1952-1996). The
London
Symphony Orchestra is a real world orchestra.
Memorable Dialog
in one timeline.mp3
quite beyond me.mp3
you understand me so well.mp3
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