David McCallum's X Files: how Sapphire and Steel chilled the nation
The late actor’s sci-fi series with Joanna Lumley was esoteric, unbearably bleak and utterly terrifying. Was it also ahead of its time?
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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Why the cheap as chips chills of Sapphire and Steel will forever haunt us
Before The Lazarus Project or The Matrix, Joanne Lumley and David McCallum bent reality and terrified the nation – at a fraction of the cost
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Flashback: Sapphire And Steel - SciFiNow - The World's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Magazine
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...
Source: scifinow.co.uk