BF - Sapphire & Steel - (vonG)

A Khureshian audiobook release

Series One

1.1 The Passenger
A steam train enthusiast boards an antiquated 1930s train for a journey with eleven other passengers, and an old book provides the trigger for Time to start playing out a familiar tale that will end in murder. Can Sapphire, Steel and Gold overcome one man's guilt and prevent the inevitable? (4 parts)
Cast: Mark Gatiss as Gold, Hugo Myatt as Philip Burgess, Jackie Skarvellis as Mrs Warburton, Neil Henry as John Andrews, Clare Louise Connolly as The Princess

1.2 Daisy Chain
An ordinary house with a seemingly happy family hides a secret that might destroy them, as well as Sapphire and Steel. The operatives must find the right link in a chain of cause and effect – but to break it, someone may have to be sacrificed. (4 parts)
Cast: Kim Hartman as Gabrielle, Lena Rae as Jennifer, Stuart Piper as James, Saul Jaffe as Voice, Emma Kilbey as Voice, Joseph Lidster as Tom

1.3 All Fall Down
In an historical area of London, old artefacts are uncovered, and a journal provides a dangerous link to the past. Even with Silver's help, Steel finds the Black Plague reaching out from the mists of Time, while Sapphire risks becoming trapped as part of history itself. (4 parts)
Cast: David Collings as Silver, Michael Chance as Webber, Kate Dyson as Fleming, Suzanne Proctor as Mary, Linda Bartram as The Girl, Neil Cole as Police Officer

1.4 The Lighthouse
A newlywed couple move into a lighthouse intending to renovate it, but ghosts from the past, secrets from the present and phantoms from the future hurtle around one another in a time storm, threatening to engulf them all in an inescapable cycle of madness and death. (2 parts)
Cast: Neil Salvage as Old Man, Joseph Young as Adrian, Ian Hallard as Nicholas, Lucy Beresford as Suzy, Michael Adams as Mike, Stuart Piper as Young Boy

1.5 Dead Man Walking
An unexplained death at a prison is only the first of a series of inconsistencies with Time that Sapphire and Steel are called in to investigate. (2 parts)
Cast: David Collings as Silver, Arthur Bostrom as Richard Hanmore, Jo Castleton as Marian Anderson, Neil Cole as Ian Jackson, Michael Chance as Hammond, Nigel Fairs as Kilsby, Suzanne Proctor as Marcus, Linda Bartram as Mo

Series Two

2.1 The School
The school has stood for a century, and proud of its history. However, old ghosts are stirring and lessons will be learned… but will Sapphire and Steel become the teachers, or the students? (4 parts)
Cast: Keith Drinkel as Mr Leslie, Lisa Daniely as Mrs Leslie, Victoria Gould as Chatura, James Daniel Wilson as Max

2.2 The Surest Poison
An auction of timepieces, a 156-year-old man, the theft of the greatest watch ever built and its creator, the greatest watchmaker of all: all linked across history. Time has a plan, one with cataclysmic consequences for humanity unless Sapphire and Steel can stop it. (4 parts)
Cast: Richard Franklin as Webb, Tom Bevan as Breguet, Eric MacLennan as Gerard, Helen Goldwyn as Cecile

2.3 Water Like a Stone
In an abandoned theatre on Christmas Eve, plans to celebrate a dead playwright's work threaten to lure Sapphire and Steel into a maze from which there may be no escape…

Cast: Lisa Bowerman as Ruby, Nicholas Briggs as Arthur, Lucy Gaskell as The Girl, Suzanne Proctor as Dolly

2.4 Cruel Immortality
Steel is alone, trapped in a Retirement Home in the middle of nowhere.

Cast: Muriel Pavlow as Mrs P, Daphne Oxenford as Enid, Ian Burford as Stanley, Lois Baxter as Matron, Lucy Gaskell as Carer, Steve Kynman as Carer, Lisa Bowerman as Carer, Nigel Fairs as Carer

2.5 Perfect Day
Steel, Sapphire and Gold find themselves attending a wedding.

Cast: Mark Gatiss as Gold, Victoria Carling as Lydia, Philip McGough as The Captain, Daniel Weyman as Richard, Matthew Steer as James, Caroline Morris as Jennifer

2.6 The Mystery of the Missing Hour
Sapphire and Steel arrive in Cairo, 1926 to solve an impossible murder.

Cast: Colin Baker as Narrator, Sarah Douglas as Lady Marjorie, Ian Hallard as Arthur, Cate Debenham Taylor as Jane, Ian Brooker as Cornelius, Nigel Fairs as MC

Series Three


3.1 Second Sight
Sapphire and Steel have gone. Sapphire and Steel are here.

Cast: Blair McDonough as Steel, Anna Skellern as Sapphire, Lisa Bowerman as Ruby, Patience Tomlinson as Mary, Clare Calbraith as Polly, Duncan McInnes as Davey, Angela Bruce as Annie

3.2 Remember Me
A faded sitcom star wanders through the darkness of a deserted pier, haunted by the ghosts of his dead colleagues.

Cast: Sam Kelly as Eric, Joannah Tincey as Kate, David Horovitch as The Nostalgia

3.3 Zero
The Space Shuttle Aspirant is in a decaying orbit, its engines dead. Time is running out.

Cast: David Collings as Silver, Mark Gatiss as Gold, Angela Bruce as Andrea

3.4 Wall of Darkness
An abandoned shopping centre in the middle of the night. Is the journey at an end?

Cast: Louise Jameson as Sally, Ian Hallard as Justin, Robert Maloney as Russell, Timothy Watson as Jason, Joannah Tincey as Miranda