The suggestion might be that this was an attempt at a relaunch, perhaps with the intention of introducing Mercury somewhere along the line, but these intentions came to nothing. The serial is marked out by having a subtly different title sequence, with the music in a lower key and, for some reason, the list of elements altered – our old friend Lead is replaced by Mercury. Central wasn't particularly keen on transmitting material produced by their predecessors, but television production is often a hair's breadth away from falling behind schedule and will often fill the slots with whatever is available, and the final Sapphire & Steel was broadcast by Central on ITV in August 1982, very nearly a year after the previous serial.Īs with all but the fifth story, Assignment Six is written by series creator P. ![]() ![]() The newly formed Central Television took over their franchise for 1982, but there was a large backlog of ATV programming still knocking around, un-transmitted. ![]() The production company ATV, which had produced the series, lost its broadcasting franchise with ITV as it reassessed its regional structure in 1981. The final serial of Sapphire & Steel was kept back from the schedules for some months following a major reshuffle at ITV.
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