Despite being a show about a Time Lord, Doctor Who didn’t really start to focus on the themes and workings of time travel, paradoxes and other temporal phenomena until its 2005 rebirth. However, at the turn of the 1970s, a short-lived ITV rival described as “completely different to Doctor Who” set a chilling example of the dangers of messing around with time “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”. Sapphire & Steel follows the two titular detectives, played by Joanna Lumley and David McCallum respectively; assigned by an unknown authority to correct anomalies that have allowed the mysterious and malevolent forces of time itself to break into the present, material world. Little background is given to the two agents, though they are certainly extra-terrestrial in origin. It was the writers' intention, never stated in the show, that such agents would be formed from the fabric of the universe itself to deal with time (through which the universe itself was passing) drawing abilities from particular atomic elements – though notably neither Sapphire nor Steel are elements. Windows Xp With Service Pack 2. Both characters are telepathic, whilst Steel has inhuman strength, telekinesis and the ability to drain thermal energy, Sapphire can rewind time temporarily, divine the history of objects and possesses some control over human minds.

Presumably as a result, despite the agents’ other-worldly aloofness, Sapphire is warmer and more empathising than the blunt, utilitarian Steel. The two “operators” (as they are termed within the show) are also aided by other specialists.

Most notable of these are super-humanly strong Lead and technician Silver (both of which are elements). Team Edge Mathematica 9 Keygen. In one episode, they also give low-level powers to a human and dub him Bronze (a compound).

There is a fun game to be had in attempting to think of who you would cast in the roles of other elements. For example: Carbon might need to have an actor who can be hard as diamond but slippery like graphite – Jason Statham! The show was the creation of future Torchwood writer PJ Hammond, and the series began life as an idea for a children's show for Thames Television called The Time Menders. Thames lost interest and it was instead picked up by ATV in the Midlands. ATV was so impressed by the strength of the writing and potential low cost that the show was snapped up, given a later timeslot and the creepiness emphasised. However, despite these factors the show only managed eight ‘assignments’, totalling thirty-four episodes between 1979 and 1982 (even worse than the Doctor Who 'droughts' of recent years). Industrial strikes hampered the show and the replacement of ATV by Central eventually killed it off and nearly saw it wiped.

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Although future stories had been considered by Hammond, when it was discovered there was no escape for the show, the ending of the last story was altered to make it more binding, absolute and captivating. The show was revived and given a well-received new run of a few of seasons from 2005-2008 by Big Finish Audio Productions. Despite the comparative lack of material, the series is destined to be well-respected in the genre. This is largely due to the writing, production and acting that combine to make an incredibly restrained yet knife-edged atmosphere.

All of this cerebral writing and restrained production is sold by the calibre of the actors, with Joanna Lumley and David McCallum having both been brought in at the behest of ATV head, Lew Grade, in an effort to make the series attractive for export markets. The cool detachment and aloof natures of the agents reinforce the sense that events are beyond the humans both in the series and viewing it. Yet, when on the rare occasions that these calm, measured performances are broken this only serves to heighten the importance and tension of the proceedings. The fact that the agent characters in the series have the god-like powers and alien detachment of Time Lords is possibly why Joanna Lumley and David Collings (as the eccentric techy Silver) have often been suggested as potential Doctor Who leads. Indeed it is interesting to think that Sapphire and Steel would be quite at home in the Gallifrey of T he War Games with its near-omnipotent Time Lords. Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon Songbook. In fact, it can be quite enjoyable to pretend that maybe Sapphire and Steel are empowered Celestial Intervention Agency operatives, (codenames for operatives being compounds, specialists being elements) sent out to correct anomalies in time itself.