Sapphire & Steel

Name: Sapphire & Steel
Genre: Sci-Fi

1979–1982ITVSci-Fi

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Two operatives who are not people, sent to repair breaks in time, explained to the audience only by a narrated list of elements.

Sapphire & Steel opens with a main title sequence of 51 seconds.

It arrived on ITV in 1979, when The Sooty Show, The Big Match and Rainbow were also on the network.

1 sequence93rd most looked up of 151 in the 1970sIMDb ↗

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The opening titles

Season 1

51s

Fan upload. The uploader dates this version across the whole 1979 to 1982 run.

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