Assignment I: Escape Through a Crack in Time
(1979)
Overview
In an old house filled with old antiques, a nursery rhyme ("Ring a Ring o' Roses") read aloud causes a time fracture that takes away the parents of youngsters Rob and Helen. As Rob (Steven O'Shea), Helen's older brother, tries to call the police, two mysterious strangers calling themselves Sapphire and Steel arrive to fix the problem. Lead also arrives to provide assistance to Steel when the ghosts of the time corridor incapacitate him.
Cast
as Sapphire
as Steel
as Robert Jardine
as Helen Jardine
Episodes
Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (1) 0.0
July 10, 1979
On an ordinary evening, a mother and father sing nursery rhymes to their daughter Helen before bed. Their teenage son R…
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July 12, 1979
Sapphire and Steel determine that Helen's bedroom is the location of a time break caused by the recitation of nursery r…
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July 17, 1979
Sapphire and Steel investigate the upstairs hallway after Rob sees a pair of ghostly soldiers on the landing. Unbeknown…
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July 19, 1979
Steel's drastic measures to save Sapphire and trap the pool of light prove effective, if extremely dangerous. Sapphire …
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July 24, 1979
The time break strengthens after a nursery rhyme hidden in a book becomes stuck in Helen's head. Sapphire burns the nur…
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July 26, 1979
Lured by a vision of his father, Rob walks into a trap in the basement. A pool of light has taken him back in time to t…