Anyone got a Sapphire and Steele dvd and if so ....

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... is it as good as I remember? Or totally dated now?

I'm sure I've seen some episodes in the last few years & have a feeling it was all a bit dated, prob better in our memories, I used to think it was great.

ty Eowyn, I remember it being incredibly spooky and intense ... but then again I was only a mere youth at the time!

ooh my dad worked on that (chipie) it was great!

i think i know someone who worked on it too... he might have vhs but doubt dvd. i could ask if you like - it'll be next week before i can get him though.

my dad worked in tv all his life, the stories he tells hahahah

TY enormouschangesatthelastminute ... I have seen it on dvd (a couple of years ago at hmv Brentcross) and ummmmmmmed and ahhhhed over whether to buy it or not .... and NEVER seen it since - therefore was just curious as to whether I should bother trying to find it - or as Eowyn suggests - just live with the FAB memories ... but feel free to ask - it would be apprecitated!

it's a great series (like alot of the 70/80s) dramas the golden age of tv!

I still remember the ending - when they were trapped in that tiny cafe for ever and ever....

also check out edge of darkness for classic 80s series

can you tell i like this subject??

have a look on amazon

honestly it was great

i know someone connected to edge of darkness too - maybe it's your dad southeastastralplain!

haha scary

if you live where i live people are blase about their involvement with the film/tvindustry

I have them all - except the futuristic/vegetarian one - on video, from when they first came out. I can testify that they ARE very good - the low production values count in their favour, and the strong performances from the leads really carry them.

The first one, with the kids whose parents vanish, is, I think, pretty disturbing for kids. I haven't let DD watch it yet, and she is a veteran of countless Doctor Whos.

The best is the 8-part Railway Station story, which is just as spooky as it was when I was 11. And it contains one of the most blood-run-cold, jump-from-your-chair moments I have ever seen on British TV - an effect achieved with nothing but a pair of black contact lenses and the wonderful, incomparable Joanna Lumley!

Yes - the first one is the one that I can remember the best ... with the nursery rhymes and lots of spooky goings on ...I think I'm going to have to part with some well earned (on my DH's behalf) money and purchase!!!

I got a couple of mine on eBay - worth checking out. I'm not a manic eBayer by any means, but I was the only person bidding both times!

Otherwise Amazon have the complete set here

Was there one with stuff in the freezer

& another with people going missing from pictures??or a man without a face??

I was very young

Yup, the "man without a face" making people go into photos was the fourth one.

The freezer - think you're thinking of the one I don't have, katymac, with the couple from the future in the invisible penthouse who had a creature made of bits of meat come to life and a baby that grew into a man overnight.

Annoying thing is that none of them have official titles (so it's not like with Doctor Who when someone says "I liked the one with the maggots" and you can say "Ah, you mean The Green Death") e.g. The One With The Vanishing Parents may be unofficially called Rhymes or Escape Through A Crack In Time, but the writer never used any titles!

In return for all that, may I have a "phwoargh moment"?

PHWOARGH

Thank you...

and here they are trapped in the Cafe Beyond Time

I absolutely used to love Sapphire and Steele. I would love to see it again, but as others have said would it spoil the memories. Mind you I can't really remember any of the stories now. It was so long ago!

They should show it on telly again. They repeat enough other stuff.

eeek... the one with the photographs... and the one with the corridor full of 'airmen'?? who were suffocating!? scared the beejesus out of me!!!

I can still remember the one where they had to chant 'ring a ring of roses' or something - must have been about 30 years ago but I still go cold !

Oh yes incy, that rings a bell. Was that the one where there was a poltergeist or something similar in the girls bedroom? I do have a vague memory of it frightening the life out of me, I must have been 6 or 7?.

OOh yes, I was the same age ....think I'd still be scared now !!!