Sapphire and Steel Ep1 Assignment 1Classic 1979 british sci- fi. Sapphire and steel are interdimesional operatives sent to fix anomalies in time and space.
In a remote, coastal house, a mother and father read nursery rhymes to their daughter Helen, while, downstairs, fourteen-year-old Rob is doing his homework. One by one the clocks stop and Rob and Helenâs parents mysteriously vanish. Rob phones the local policeman and asks for help, and, seconds later, the enigmatic Sapphire and Steel arrive at the house. Sapphire explains that time is a corridor, through which the forces of chaos are attempting to break through in order to gain access to our reality, and that Robâs parents have been taken as part of a new attempt.