Sapphire and Steel – part 2

This is another piece from my defunct film website. Written way back in 1998, before science fiction fandom became ‘mainstream’ I first came across Sapphire and Steel, an obscure British science fiction series made in the early 1980s, while I was browsing through a mail order catalogue in the late 90s. I read the description: [...]

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Ace of Wands (2)

My rating: ***** The Ace of Wands website See here for my main post on this series. I am enjoying my repeat viewing of the series and finding it a lot less clunky second time around. Nonetheless the hilarious difference between the shots of the cast on donkeys in a sandpit with a tame camel [...]

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Ace of Wands (1970-2)

My rating: ***** The Ace of Wands website Note: Simon Coward’s comprehensive Ace of Wands website and Andrew Pixley’s copious viewing notes which accompany the 2007 Network DVD release have been invaluable in providing background information and quotations for this review. This British children’s fantasy series is by all current technical standards fairly dire. It [...]

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Sapphire and Steel (1979-82)

My rating: ***** My Sapphire and Steel pages Sapphire and Steel is my favourite science fiction series and I have watched quite a few. Starring the blond duo Joanna Lumley and David McCallum, it was broadcast in Britain from 1979 to 1982 and then, like the characters at the end of the series, assigned to [...]

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