Sapphire & Steel
| Sapphire & Steel | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Supernatural Fantasy |
| Created by | Peter J. Hammond |
| Starring | David McCallum Joanna Lumley |
| Composer | Cyril Ornadel |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 34 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | David Reid |
| Producer | Shaun O'Riordan |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company | ATV/Central |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 10 July 1979 – 31 August 1982 |
Sapphire & Steel is a British supernatural/fantasy television series starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read.
From 2005 to 2008, Sapphire & Steel returned in a series of audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions, starring Susannah Harker and David Warner as the main characters.