Sapphire & Steel (1979)
Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read. None of the stories had onscreen titles, or any official titles assigned by the writers. The Region 1 Complete Series DVD release gives the titles "Escape Through a Crack in Time", "The Railway Station", "The Creature's Revenge", "The Man Without a Face", "Dr. McDee Must Die" and "The Trap", respectively. These titles have often been cited as having been created by science fiction magazine Time Screen.
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Episode 1 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (1)
Release Date: 1981-08-11A wealthy business man holds a party in a 1930s period reconstruction for his guests, but all is not what it seems. Sapphire and Steel invite themselves to investigate.
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Episode 2 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (2)
Release Date: 1981-08-12A game of hide and seek is played before dinner but one of the guests will be murdered, there is something evil hiding in one of the guests but which one?
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Episode 3 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (3)
Release Date: 1981-08-18The party guests begin to realise that they are trapped, but their memories are beginning to fail and confusion is taking over. Then there is another death. But is there really?
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Episode 4 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (4)
Release Date: 1981-08-19Two of the party guests are dead. Who will be next? This is no traditional murder mystery, and Sapphire and Steel cannot agree on who would have a motive to commit this crime.
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Episode 5 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (5)
Release Date: 1981-08-25Sapphire and Steel realize that things must play out exactly as before in 1930 or the human race is doomed, but something is trying to interfere with time. Dr McDee has to die.
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Episode 6 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (6)
Release Date: 1981-08-26Sapphire and Steel allow things to unfold to find the point in time when things will be changed. Only then can they ensure that time is put back on track and reset the correct future.