#sapphire and steel

[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

#david mccallum #illya kuryakin #man from uncle #sapphire and steel #the invisible man #ashley pitt #sol madrid

[c86]

RIP David McCallum

Sapphire and Steel | Look-in magazine | July 1979

#david mccallum #sapphire and steel #rip #actor #magazine #look-in #illustration #sci-fi #itv #joanna lumley #70s

[redbishop37]

Joanna Lumley.

#joanna lumley #new avengers #sapphire and steel

[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 🩵

#david mccallum #illya kuryakin #ducky mallard #man from uncle #sapphire and steel #ncis #kat’s thoughts 🍄

[weirdlookindog]

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

#sapphire and steel #joanna lumley #david mccallum #sci fi #horror #mystery #cult tv #tv series

[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).

#sapphire & steel #sapphire and steel #big finish #!!!! #sapphire #steel #silver #gold #ruby #susannah harker #david warner #david collings #mark gatiss #lisa bowerman #anyway #this is cool #because whatever you think of them #(my feelings are very mixed lol) #they remain nevertheless some of the absolute best installments big finish have ever done #and the weirdest ofc #Youtube

[misterivy]

#joanna lumley #1970s #the new avengers #sapphire and steel

[ronnola]

#sapphire and steel #production stills #upgrade needed #ILOVEYOUSILVER #david mccallum #david collings #joanna lumley #edward de souza #johanna kirby

[singlecrow]

David McCallum has died and I'm so sad about it! I loved him in the Man From UNCLE (where he was the one the female audience weren't supposed to fall in love with, cf. Spock), and I've seen enough NCIS to find him charming in it. But Sapphire and Steel! My fave thing he was in, I adore it. It's this old British SF/fantasy show from the seventies, and it's without a doubt the MOST FUCKING UNSETTLING thing you will ever see. They had no money for effects when they made it and it really didn't need them, it was just happily scary as fuck. This was the opening theme, jesus christ.

The thing I always mention, to explain to people how terrifying this show was, was a bit where Sapphire and Steel (who are kind of interdimensional investigators; we never actually learn who they are or where they come from) are here to look into a mysterious poltergeist being. What's the great danger, Sapphire asks, with a creature that can only move things a few inches and can do nothing else?

(cn: child harm)

Behind her, right at the back of the room, the pillow drops into the baby's crib.

#sapphire and steel #david mccallum

[pers-books]

Sapphire & Steel have been reassigned! 

Big Finish’s acclaimed audio dramas based on the ITV Studios sci-fi/fantasy series Sapphire & Steel are now available to buy as downloads for the first time. 

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. 

Sapphire & Steel, created by P. J. Hammond, was originally broadcast between 1979 and 1982. It starred Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as a pair of “interdimensional operatives” tasked with protecting the flow of time. Each story would see them take human form as they showed up in a new location, to investigate a dangerous anomaly. 

Between May 2005 and August 2008, Big Finish released 15 full-cast audio dramas based on the TV series. The late David Warner took on McCallum’s part to play the stubborn Steel, whilst Susannah Harker slipped into Lumley’s role as Sapphire. 

For three of the audio stories, original TV guest star David Collings returned to recreate his performance as Silver. Other notable guest stars in the range included Mark Gatiss, Colin Baker, Sarah Douglas, Richard Franklin, Angela Bruce, Arthur Bostrom and Louise Jameson. 

The audio series was only ever released on CD and has been unavailable for more than a decade.  

Now, in association with ITV Studios, all three series have been re-released as downloads, giving fans the chance to relisten or indeed discover the adventures for the first time. 

Each series comes packaged with a brand-new 30-minute behind-the-scenes featurette, offering an insight into the production of these beloved adventures. 

All three series are available to buy at an exclusive early-bird price for the first month; Series One (comprising five stories) is available for just £19.99, Series Two (comprising six stories) is just £24.99, and Series Three (four stories) is £19.99. 

Big Finish chairman Jason Haigh-Ellery said: “We are delighted to have reached an agreement with ITV Studios to bring back our Sapphire & Steel releases as downloads. We have received regular requests over the years for it to be made available again, so we’re pleased that a whole new generation of listeners will be able to hear the late, great David Warner as Steel and Susannah Harker as Sapphire.” 

Nigel Fairs, who produced the series, added: “I’m absolutely delighted that people will be able to hear our version of Sapphire & Steel again, as it really was a labour of love. Re-imagining such a visual television series for audio was no easy task, but I think my decision to concentrate on the emotional story arcs of the characters who encountered ‘Time’ and our two agents bore some really tasty fruit! Dear David and Susie were the perfect leads, and the recording sessions were amongst the happiest I ever had at Big Finish. Creative times indeed. ‘Roll back time, Sapphire…’” 

The four-part stories in each series are: 

Series One: 

The Passenger by Steve Lyons

Daisy Chain by Joseph Lidster 

All Fall Down by David Bishop

The Lighthouse by Nigel Fairs 

Dead Man Walking by Nigel Fairs (based on a story by John Ainsworth) 

Series Two: 

The School by Simon Guerrier

The Surest Poison by Richard Dinnick

Water Like a Stone by Nigel Fairs

Cruel Immortality by Nigel Fairs 

Perfect Day by Steve Lyons

The Mystery of the Missing Hour by Joseph Lidster

Series Three: 

Second Sight by Nigel Fairs

Remember Me by John Dorney

Zero by Steve Lyons 

Wall of Darkness by Nigel Fairs 

All three series are available exclusively here. Series One is available for just £19.99, Series Two for £24.99, and Series Three for £19.99. 

All the above prices include the special pre-order discount and are subject to change after general release.

-- Well bugger me!

I wonder if this means I've got access to the downloads now, since I bought the CDs way back when?

*goes to check* No, huh. Guess I'll go on using the rips of the CDs then!

#Big Finish #Sapphire and Steel #David Warner #Susannah Harker #Audio Drama

[kwebtv]

David Keith McCallum Jr. (September 19, 1933 – September 25, 2023) Film and television actor and musician. He gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. His other notable television roles include Carter in Colditz (1972–1974) and Steel in Sapphire & Steel (1979–1982). Beginning in 2003, McCallum gained renewed international popularity for his role as NCIS medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard in the American television series NCIS. On film, McCallum notably appeared in The Great Escape (1963).

Other television roles included two appearances on The Outer Limits and a guest appearance on Perry Mason in 1964 as defendant Phillipe Bertain in "The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman".

McCallum and Vaughn reprised their roles of Kuryakin and Solo in a 1983 TV film, Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.. In 1986 McCallum reunited with Vaughn again in an episode of The A-Team entitled "The Say U.N.C.L.E. Affair", complete with "chapter titles", the word "affair" in the title, the phrase "Open Channel D", and similar scene transitions.

 In 1975 he played the title character in a short-lived U.S. version of The Invisible Man.

McCallum starred with Diana Rigg in the 1989 TV miniseries Mother Love. In 1991 and 1992 McCallum played gambler John Grey, one of the principal characters in the television series Trainer. He appeared as an English literature teacher in a 1989 episode of Murder, She Wrote. In the 1990s McCallum guest-starred in two U.S. television series. In season 1 of SeaQuest DSV, he appeared as the law-enforcement officer Frank Cobb of the fictional Broken Ridge of the Ausland Confederation, an underwater mining camp off the coast of Australia by the Great Barrier Reef; he also had a guest-star role in one episode of Babylon 5 as Dr. Vance Hendricks in the Season 1 episode Infection.

IMDb listing

#David McCallum #TV #Obit #Obituary #O2023 #The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #Sapphire and Steel #Trainer #NCIS #The Invisible Man

[dcomicsficrecs]

You might have noticed that I almost stopped running this blog. Well, I am a Ukrainian, in Ukraine, and we are constantly being bombed, shelled, attacked by drones. And that's for us who are not on occupied territories - there, things are so, so much worse.

My closest friends' town was, in 2022. My family is in one of those towns, still.

So, if you would like a rec from me, here it is:

The March by Kollega

If you could only read one fic this year, I would recommend you to make it this one.

This is not a DC fic. This is Saphire and Steel, an old British sci-fi TV series. Honestly, I've never watched even a trailer.

It made me cry.

#fic recs #non-DC fic rec #sapphire and steel #silver #case fic

[erosioni]

Joanna Lumley, David McCallum, 1979

#david mccallum #joanna lumley #sapphire and steel #70s aesthetic #70s fashion #70s icons #1970s fashion #70s style #70s tv

[nelc]

#David McCallum #Joanna Lumley #Sapphire and Steel

[bobbie-robron]

#david mccallum #NCIS #sapphire and steel #rip

[weirdlookindog]

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

#sapphire and steel #joanna lumley #sci fi #horror #mystery #cult tv #tv series