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Sapphire & Steel
"Wall of Darkness" Part 4
Audio drama
Big Finish Productions
Written by Nigel Fairs
Directed by Nigel Fairs
August 2008 |
Steel comes to a realization.
Didja Know?
The title of this adventure is borrowed from the 1949 Arthur C.
Clarke short story "The Wall of Darkness".
Several of the characters in this story are Americans, but the
actors' accents aren't very convincing...they still sound British!
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Justin
Brandom
Jody (mentioned only)
Pete
(mentioned only)
Gemma
(mentioned only)
Sally
Brandom (Justin's mother)
Derek Brandom
(Justin's father, mentioned only, deceased)
Sapphire
Steel
Russell Brandom (mentioned only)
Sally's mother-in-law
(mentioned only)
George Dixon
(mentioned only)
President Emma Godwin (mentioned only)
the Nostalgia
Arthur Travers
Nicholas Phillips
Nicholas' father (unnamed)
Ian Hallard (mentioned only)
the Princess
Eric Gurney
Silver
Transients
Phillip Burgess
(mentioned only)
Ruby
(mentioned only)
Steven Bunnings (mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
Justin remarks that he prefers
MTV to the
news.
Justin states that Gemma says she'd like to go to England
someday and she likes Are You Being Served? and
that she wants to visit a real life Grace Brothers. Are
You Being Served? is a British sitcom that aired
1972-1985 about retail workers in a fictitious department
store called Grace Brothers.
At the Bookends book store, Sapphire and Steel sort through
the box that had previously contained The
Other Side of the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke. Among the
books they find in it are All Fall Down, Daisy
Chain, Assignment Six, and The Passenger.
These are all titles of past
Sapphire & Steel adventures (Assignment Six
is The Trap in the PopApostle chronology.)
The scene Steel describes while reading from one of the
books (presumably Assignment Six), is from
"The Trap" Part 4.
At 24:02 in the episode, Steel recalls when he and Sapphire
were trapped on a CD by the Transients and they figured it
out and escaped. This occurred in the storylines
"The
Mystery of the Missing Hour" and
"Second Sight".
The story ends with the revelation that
Sapphire and Steel are still trapped since at least the
events of
"The
Mystery of the Missing Hour", and probably even longer
than that, perhaps still in the same trap they were caught
in at the end of the TV series,
"The Trap" Part 4.
This was the last
Sapphire & Steel story produced, so
the saga ends on a cliffhanger, as did the original TV
series.
Memorable Dialog
I'm the one who's screaming.mp3
the importance of the human spirit.mp3
what's the point of putting someone in prison if they can't
see the bars?.mp3
all the others gave up on you.mp3
stuck record.mp3
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