The Daily Teaser — 9-7-2015: Anyone for Tennis?

Oh, now there’s a thing … !

You’ve probably realised, by now, that I’ve been binge watching early 80s classic, Sapphire and Steel.

Something I managed to finish, last night, with the concluding original series: known as Assignment 6, set in a small garage stuck in a bubble of time.

Absolutely fantastic stuff, I should add.

Assignment 2 — generally considered definitive — does drag a little: but I can also see why that story is so well spoken of.

Overall, the series spooked people: and has stayed in people’s memories ever since, for doing exactly that.

The weird bit … ?

Is that, in a syndicated interview, yesterday, Luther creator, Neil Cross, announced he’s looking at re-launching Sapphire and Steel.

Which is good: so long as Cross and company can keep that scary atmosphere.

What got me was the timing of the interview’s release, online.   Just as I finished watching the original series.

Personally … ?

I’m half expecting McCallum and Lumley to start banging on my door, any minute now.

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The Daily Teaser — 7-7-2015

Ah-HA!   The box-set of Sapphire and Steel that I ordered?

Has officially been delivered … !

And I have to admit, I’ve been having a bit of a binge watch: certainly of Assignment’s 1 and 2.

Actually Assignment 2 — Story 2, Adventure 2, whatever ever you want to call it — is the notorious one: set in an abandoned railway station, it sees our heroes dealing something — something — lurking on the footbridge connecting the two platforms of a railway station.

It’s got to be said, this particular one … has a very slow pace.

But … ?

But ALSO ramps up the tension in a way I think very little modern TV shows do.

With the possible exception of a couple of Torchwood episodes, Small Worlds and From Out Of The Rain.   Which, by a huge co-incidence, where written by Sapphire and Steel creator, P. J. Hammond.

It just goes to show, I think.

You can’t keep a seriously spooky writer down … 

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