![]() His only previous experience with anything as odd as Sapphire & Steel had been when he wrote 13 episodes for the children’s television series Ace of Wands (1970-1972). Hammond (his working title had been The Time Menders) who had a long track record of writing for British television, but mainly in more mainstream fare like cop shows Dixon of Dock Green (1955-1976), Z-Cars (1962-1978) and The Sweeney (1975-1978) and the popular soap opera Emmerdale Farm/Emmerdale (1972-). ![]() And yet it was, baffling as many as it enthralled with its bizarre plot details, mysterious characters and wild central premise. Even today, four decades after it was first broadcast, it still fairly boggles the mind that anything as unashamedly weird as Sapphire & Steel could have been made by British ITV franchise ATV at all, let alone be broadcast in an early evening prime time slot.
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