Sapphire & Steel (TV Series) Assignment One: Part 4 (1979) User Reviews

Assignment One: Part 4

[Prismark10 · 8/10 · 20 June 2020]

The previous episode ended in a tense cliffhanger. You just knew Sapphire could be for the chop.

Steel shows his powers. The civil war soldiers have taken physical form and he freezes them. This depletes Steel's energy.

It leads to a sinister knock on the door and then the door comes crashing down. There is an imposing man and he turns out to be Lead, (Val Pringle) another element.

There is a bit of sexual stereotyping as Lead is hungry and Sapphire does the cooking. Lead chides Steel for using his freezing powers without him being there to insulate Steel.

We learn something more about Sapphire and Steel. There is another dangerous assignment waiting for them and Sapphire might be more inexperienced than Steel.

Lead is a playful and boisterous character. You can sense that the children would find him intimidating.

This might be the best episode of the first season. A book of nursery rhyme that refuses to burn and more chaos is caused. Some nice atmospheric touches as the series hints at horror tropes.

A very accomplished episode.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 19 September 2022]

Steel once again gets the better of his intelligent and sly opponent, but The Invisible adversary just finds more ingenious ways to deceive Rob and Helen. A boisterous figure arrives at the door, but is he friend or foe?

I wasn't too sure after episodes one and two that I was going to be into it, but here I am, hooked, this was the best episode so far.

The story is a really interesting one, there's something pretty bleak about two small children being left home alone, their parents taken away. I love the notion of the nursery rhymes, and the part they have to play.

The sequences with Helen a d the book were really rather good, well realised, and pretty spooky.

Lead makes for a very interesting addition, he's a nice character, Pringle has a very bold personality, imagine a louder Brian Blessed. The contest between Sapphire and Steel is very interesting, you get the impression that Steel is an old pro.

Really enjoyed this one, 8/10.