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The late actor’s sci-fi series with Joanna Lumley was esoteric, unbearably bleak and utterly terrifying. Was it also ahead of its time?

Before The Lazarus Project or The Matrix, Joanne Lumley and David McCallum bent reality and terrified the nation – at a fraction of the cost

A SERIES of murders struck fear into Glasgow in the late 1960s. Three women had set out for nights out at a dance hall, but they never came home.

Back in the Seventies, ITV, our third channel, had a reputation for vulgar populism that was even worse than it has today. ITV was the go-to place for in-yer-face cop shows, boorish sitcoms, and sequinned variety knees-ups. It wasn’t the channel you’d have expected to find anything as conceptually ambitious and strange as Sapphire And Steel. That  Sapphire And Steel is remembered so vividly now is a testament to its blazing originality. Whether it’s the ghostly sight of a World War One soldier walking the platform of a disused railway station or the besuited landlord with no face or t...