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Sapphire & Steel
"Perfect Day" Part 1
Audio drama
Big Finish Productions
Written by Steve Lyons
Directed by Lisa Bowerman
April 2007 |
Sapphire and Steel find themselves at a strange wedding.
Notes from the Sapphire & Steel chronology
This story takes place on a yacht, the Perfect Day,
trapped in a bottle in 1999. And Steel remarks in this episode
that this day was from 8 years ago, placing the "current day"
sometime in 2007. Steel also states unequivocally to Mrs.
Holloway in
"Perfect Day" Part 2 that it is really 2007.
Didja Know?
The story of "Perfect Day" bears some resemblance to the 4-part 1973
Doctor Who serial, "Carnival of Monsters", both set aboard
a ship in a "bottle".
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Jennifer Louise Holloway
Richard Charles Muldoon
splinter of Time (disguised as
the Captain)
Steel
Sapphire
James Muldoon
Lydia Holloway
Nicholas Muldoon (Jennifer and Richard's unborn son)
stewards (unnamed,
mentioned only)
Gold
Lydia's "invisible friend" (Time?)
child
(mentioned only)
Mr. and Mrs. Muldoon (Richard's parents,
mentioned only)
lonely woman
(mentioned only)
Mr. Holloway
(mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
Upon arriving on the yacht
Perfect Day, Sapphire tells Steel that it
was trapped on Tuesday, September 14, 1999. September 14,
1999 was, indeed, a Tuesday.
Steel asks Sapphire why they didn't know about the
yacht when it happened in 1999. She tells him, with a pause,
that the two of them were "indisposed". What does she mean?
Were they still stuck the Transients' trap where they were
left at the end of the "The
Trap" Part 4? But, if so, wouldn't Steel already know
that? Or is he ambivalent to the amount of time they spent
in the trap?
The captain of the yacht says he named it the
Perfect Day because it mostly gets rented
for weddings, but if he'd had his way it would have been
called the One-Eyed Jack.
The technician called Gold returns, last seen in
"The Passenger" Part 4.
Memorable Dialog
tomorrow never comes.mp3
the three of us are trapped in here.mp3
a piece of one soul to keep him safe.mp3
what a crying shame.mp3
for better, for worse.mp3
your happily ever after is no longer so certain.mp3
I understand time.mp3
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