#Sapphire & Steel

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[dramadays]

RIP David McCallum

He had a long and prolific career but I remember him best for the Man from Uncle and the endlessly spooky Sapphire and Steel.

Post Date: 25/09/2023

[c86]

RIP David McCallum

Sapphire and Steel | Look-in magazine | July 1979

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Joanna Lumley.

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Sapphire & Steel Ranked 20th Best Sci-fi Show of ALL TIME by The Telegraph (2024)

20) Sapphire & Steel

19) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

18) For All Mankind

17) Star Trek TNG

16) Three Body Problem

15) Foundation

14) Battlestar Galactica

13) Blake's 7

12) Fallout

11) The Expanse

10) Severance

9) The Mandalorian

8) Black Mirror

7) Dark

6) Andor

5) Arcane

4) Neon Genesis Evangelion

3) Stranger Things

2) Dr Who

1) Star Trek TOS

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All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel.  Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. 

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Is this the plot of ORAS go

[thisbluespirit]

Big Finish are finally making the Sapphire & Steel audios legitimately available for purchase again!

They seem to be only available as boxsets unfortunately, but if you haven't heard them, £20 a time for what are mostly full-length four-parter audios, isn't bad either.

But you'll notice that they've added content warnings to them, which will be helpful for people, whatever method they may be listening by. (ahem).

[witchofthemidlands]

Rest in Peace, David McCallum 🥺 oh this is so sad 😭 to my parents, he was ‘Illya Kuryakin” & “Steel” from the brilliant Sapphire & Steel show that they showed me the when I was younger & to me he was “Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard” from NCIS. I haven’t watched NCIS in a couple of years but it was something I used to watch with my granny & I fondly remember my granny’s crush on Ducky. We used to sit there every day for years watching NCIS on the universal channel & always, always loved Ducky. His words of wisdom, his connection with the characters & even when the actor got older & Ducky showed up less & less, his episodes were even more special to me & my gran.

Thank you, David & Rest in peace 🩵

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Joanna Lumley and David McCallum in Sapphire and Steel (1979-1982).

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Taken from LOOK-IN, August 1979

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Some elements must not be used where there is microwave

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*blows dust off my tumblr*

So a long time ago, a fan floated the idea that the late David Collings (known for a varied career across British television, particularly as Silver from "Sapphire and Steel") would've made an excellent Doctor Who should Tom Baker have for some reason decided to depart the series earlier than his canon 7 year run (something Baker himself admitted he probably should've done, but hey-ho, hindsight is 20-20).

Sidenote: the fan in question is kind of horrible, so I'm not going to name them, but I agreed with them on this, so I figure I may as well give them credit.

AU for Dr Who (the David Collings Years 1978 - 81) below:

AU for Dr Who: What would prompt Tom Baker to leave earlier than in real life? Perhaps the departure of executive producer Phillip Hinchcliffe, who'd been with him since he first started. In reality, Hinchcliffe was forced out after Season 14 for making Dr Who "too scary". In my reality, instead of just forcing him out immediately, the BBC decide to be a little more reasonable and tell him, "Look, we'll let you do Season 15, but after that, we think it's time for you to move on." Hinchcliffe has said in interviews he had plans for S15 that would've been similar to what later became Indiana Jones, so we'd enjoy a season of that at least. The downside is "Robots of Death" and "Talons of Weng-Chiang" wouldn't look as impressive because Hinchcliffe wouldn't have gone over budget out of spite over getting the sack, but such is life.

We would still get "Horror of Fang Rock" and "Image of the Fendhal" as those still fit the Hinchcliffe/Robert Holmes motif before transitioning into whatever other stories they choose to make that year. With both producer and script editor departing, Baker -- wanting to make his Dr Who movie "Dr Who Meets the Scratchman" with Ian Marter -- decides to leave as well after four years -- one less than Pertwee. Louise Jameson initially plans to depart as well, but she's persuaded to at least do half of Season 16 so as to help "bridge the gap" between the two Drs, much like Lis Sladen did before her.

How Tom's Doctor meets his end in this canon, I'm not one hundred percent certain, but I like the idea that he faces off with either the Daleks (giving him a serial where they aren't overshadowed by Davros) or the Master (still played by Peter Pratt -- although maybe less rotted than in "Deadly Assassin).

I imagine the casting of Collings as the new Doctor would convince Louise Jameson to stay for the entirety of Season 16. She and Collings were great friends in real life after he played Poule in "Robots of Death". She convinced him later in life to do the convention circuit. She was one of the few to tweet a remembrance of him when he passed in 2020. I totally think she would've stayed for another season for the chance to work with him after a turbulent tenure with Baker.

And so, Graham Williams takes over as he did in real life, having a much better time working with Collings than he would've with Baker. K9 is added to the cast. Leela is given a much better sendoff in the finale. I like to think Dr Collings would join forces with Mary Tamm's Romana to find the Key to Time (although part of me loves the idea of Joanna Lumely, his S&S co-star, playing the part). He fights Daleks and Movellans, goes to Paris, fights vampires and finally meets his end at the end of Season 18, regenerating into Peter Davison's Doctor, and we're right back on schedule

Just an idea, but I enjoyed thinking it up

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Link to Fic

What's the Collective Noun for Castiel?

Author: amaresu Fandom: Supernatural, Sapphire & Steel Word Count: 🎉5,000🎉 Major Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Tags: Outsider point of view, brief period of voyerism, post 15x20, fix it, Castiel lives!

Summary

The Bunker is locked down and Dean is trapped with endless echoes of Cas. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.

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