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By *orny PT OP Man
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"  RIP Illya Kuryakin"
Napoleon Solo : [calling on the intercom] Illya, we have a situation here that needs your special talents. Are you free?
Illya Kuryakin : [from intercom] No man is free who works for a living. But, I'm available. |
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By *orny PT OP Man
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Just found out that Steel has just died aged 90.
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[someone knocks on the door]
Robert Jardine : Who is it?
Steel : Robert Steven Jardine?
Robert Jardine : Yes?
Steel : You asked for help.
Robert Jardine : I did, yes!
Steel : Then unlock the door.
Robert Jardine : [unchaining the locks] That was quick. I'd only just phoned.
[Sapphire and Steel enter]
Robert Jardine : I don't know you! Only... the policeman at the Point!
Steel : The policeman at the Point isn't coming. I contacted him and told him that everything down here is under control.
Robert Jardine : But it isn't!
Steel : No. That's why we're here and not him.
[He walks off toward the kitchen]
Sapphire : [amusedly] He's a shade too serious but you'll get used to him.
Robert Jardine : But he's got no right to tell the policeman...
Sapphire : Your parents have disappeared, right?
Robert Jardine : Yes!
Sapphire : And you want them back?
Robert Jardine : Of course I want them...
Sapphire : Safely?
Robert Jardine : Yes.
Sapphire : [pleased] Well then, your policeman at the Point with his idiot notebook and his idiot questions stands no chance of getting them back for you. But we do. |
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By *orny PT OP Man
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"I never understood how Steel was an element, but RIP to the guy in loads of TV. pt"
There's 3 answers to this
Poetic licence, as PJ Hammond was not good at science.
Sapphire and Steel would be Aluminium and Iron, but it doesn't have that sparkle. |
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Wow!! … I had missed this! Very sad.
I was only watching an old programme of Six Million Dollar Man a couple of weeks ago (sad I know), and he popped up. I thought he must be old and wondered if he was still with us … and he was!
Don’t forget his leading role in Mosquito Squadron, a fab WW2 film … but rip off of 633 Sqn, the iconic film.
R xx |
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over a year ago
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"Was he the last surviving member of the cast from The Great Escape "
John Leyton is still alive, he's 87. Played Flight Lieutenant Dickie, known as the Tunnel King alongside Danny Welinski played by Charles Brosnan.
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By *orny PT OP Man
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Loved him in Sapphire and Steel "
Same here, he reprised an RAF air crew role in one of the episodes: a nod and a wink if I ever saw one.
I never got to see Watcher in the woods, the Disney film from the same era |
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"Oh fun Sapphire and Steel is on itvx I'll watch an episode or 2.
I'm doing this right now, the last assignment. I do have both boxsets as well. 
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I've had the blue DVD boxset for around 10 years I think! Got it on a nostalgia trip but never put it on. Do they really hold up? pt
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By *orny PT OP Man
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Oh fun Sapphire and Steel is on itvx I'll watch an episode or 2.
I'm doing this right now, the last assignment. I do have both boxsets as well.
I've had the blue DVD boxset for around 10 years I think! Got it on a nostalgia trip but never put it on. Do they really hold up? pt
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In my not-so-blue-as-sapphire's eyes, yes
It's a mixed bag, 6 assignments. Typically 6 x 30 min episode per story.
This was the thinking mans' Doctor Who. Think Tom Baker's era.
Low budget/high imagination and even the video frame rate, ie ghosting added to the effect.
1 nursery rhymes: proper spooky, creaky stairs and an old house (I remember this one)
2 WWW1: classic ghost story and a Mosquito Squadron reference (and this one too)
3 fast growing baby: didn't like this episode
4 landlord and tenants: not as good as assignment 1
5 dinner party/Cluedo: feels like a normal whodunnit.
6 the petrol station (I'll never forget the ending) |
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"Oh fun Sapphire and Steel is on itvx I'll watch an episode or 2.
I'm doing this right now, the last assignment. I do have both boxsets as well.
I've had the blue DVD boxset for around 10 years I think! Got it on a nostalgia trip but never put it on. Do they really hold up? pt
In my not-so-blue-as-sapphire's eyes, yes
It's a mixed bag, 6 assignments. Typically 6 x 30 min episode per story.
This was the thinking mans' Doctor Who. Think Tom Baker's era.
Low budget/high imagination and even the video frame rate, ie ghosting added to the effect.
1 nursery rhymes: proper spooky, creaky stairs and an old house (I remember this one)
2 WWW1: classic ghost story and a Mosquito Squadron reference (and this one too)
3 fast growing baby: didn't like this episode
4 landlord and tenants: not as good as assignment 1
5 dinner party/Cluedo: feels like a normal whodunnit.
6 the petrol station (I'll never forget the ending)
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I remember parts of the train station one, which I'm reading was Assignment 2 (but still series 1 - there are 6 assignments over 4 series).
According the votes on IMDb, Assignments 2 and 6 (which is all of series 4) are unanimously the best stories. Their 9 best episodes score between 7.7 and 8.5, and constitute 9 of people's 10 highest-rated episodes! That's maybe a good tip for people dipping in.
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"Was he the last surviving member of the cast from The Great Escape
John Leyton is still alive, he's 87. Played Flight Lieutenant Dickie, known as the Tunnel King alongside Danny Welinski played by Charles Brosnan.
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As is William Russell who played Soren |
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"Ducky  
The producers of NCIS are going to dedicate an episode in his honour.
Awesome x"
I was interested to discover that he became an enthusiast for the history of forensic pathology, and gave lectures on the subject in fact and fiction. |
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