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Sapphire and Steel both are very, unhelpful, when it comes to their origins. They don't discuss them much at all, especially Steel who typically doesn't open up to people. What we do know of his past before meeting Sapphire is just that his origins were happy. slightly before the series had started, it's implied that Steel is close to a woman named Jet who sent him her love in the first episode. Also before the series started Sapphire and Steel were responsible for the sinking of the original Mary Celeste, and the one that was actually found was a replica. But the rest of their adventures now and in the past are all about saving the world from breaks in the corridor of Time.
Our first adventure with them on screen is when Time, being the evil thing that it can be, is responsible for the anomalies that take the children's parents away as well as having the creepy effect of stopping all of the clocks when it starts up. Sapphire and Steel arrive in this old house to find the missing parents of the children, only to discover that nursery rhymes are what's able to trigger the ghosts, refractions of time and the dead, into doing their thing. This leads to a wonderful adventure in the house where Steel is an utter asshole to two children, ghosts (refractions) start walking around the house and altering things in the house like the door of a room, Sapphire ends up in a picture where she nearly dies by the hands of ghost-soldiers and Steel eventually saves her by dropping his temperature to absolute zero in order to weaken the ghost. This happens to save Sapphire but ends up in him sleeping for some time (and Sapphire giving him a shoulder rub) which ends up with Lead showing up at the house to give them a hand, and with his help they rescue the family from the ghost hiding in the first stone laid for the foundation (by Steel freezing it and Lead crushing it).
They then end up at an abandoned railroad station that's being haunted by the ghosts of the dead and meet a man that's investigating them. This man happens to annoy Steel to no end as their working methods are vastly different and Steel tries to brush him off, but he ends up not being able to when the lead ghost in the station basically tells him off for being an asshole, and then Steel nearly dying by almost getting possessed by a ghost. This leads to them holding a seance, because this totally always ends well, and while they get the information they need, Steel gets antsy and yanks his hand away from the circle and causes Sapphire to get stuck between her body and the afterlife which of course, leads to Steel getting pissy and trying his hardest to get her back. What this ends up as however, is Steel falling for a trick that is a ghost looking like Sapphire, ending up in barbed wire and the entire group missing twelve days wherein the force that's causing all this problem, the darkness, ushers on the dead souls from the railway station. Steel being Steel ends up making a deal with the darkness using Sapphire as the go between and the deal is to send them back twelve days and Steel will give the darkness a thing to feed off of as it feeds off of resentment. However being the crafty man that he is, he has Sapphire stop them going back fully to twelve days previously and they end up eleven days previously which is enough time for them to talk sense into the ghosts of the people being fed upon by the darkness and they finally go to rest. The darkness arrives, pissed, and Steel gives it Tully, the man that has helped them this entire time, and by Tully dying early it pisses off Time and the darkness feeds off of Time's resentment and anger for centuries and it delays the need to deal with that enemy again for a while.
And it also shows that Steel is in fact a massive asshole but that's nothing new.
The next adventure we see they end up in an apartment building looking for a room that doesn't exist. Or at least not by the naked eye at least but it turns out there's three observation capsules from the future all around and that's where the issue is. Because they can't get into the capsules however, they end up getting the help of Silver, who is a busy body and can't keep his hands to himself and touches Sapphire the entire time and she in turn touches him. Apart from Steel's jealousy, this isn't so bad (except for a force attacking Steel while he's investigating the outside of the capsule as a swan and nearly sending him off the building) when they get into a capsule where they discover a family is there to observe the time period. Which is all well and good but then they discover that the child is able to mess with time itself and is being controlled by some other force and that they have to stop it somehow. They end up back in the future while doing this and see the child as an adult who sends Silver to the past after discovering that the capsule is running off of blood (of a variety of creatures) and then they get attacked by one of those creatures that's actually controlling the capsule in the first place and the child.
I'm pretty sure it was the left over bits of a shark as humanity has taken to not eating animals any longer in the distant future and is instead using them to run things and build things and control things. So it was pissed off shark bits that attacked them.
Yeah did you forget this is an '80s sci-fi show?
After they feed the shark thing in the wall, they finally get around to fixing things up and getting back to their actual time and getting Silver back, who had ended up missing after the child touched him and sent him somewhere in time.
The next two adventures aren't anything particularly fancy, a foe that lives in photographs and can put people into them and kill them that way that they trap in a kaleidoscope for some time, and a party that goes through some time travel mess. The party ends in them trying to make sure a murder actually happens to keep time flowing smoothly. They both involve the usual amounts of touching from these two and it's really nothing special at all.
The finale of the series however, is something specialish. Sent to a garage/diner like thing our intrepid duo meet up with Silver to figure out what all is going on and why the place is out of time, literally. Time has stopped moving in the place and they're tasked with finding out why, and why some people are still around in it when there's no one else. They beat their heads against the wall metaphorically speaking as they talk to the few people there and eventually discover it's a trap set up for all three of them by someone. The who winds up being a group higher up in their organization that have come to the conclusion that the three must die, that their time is at an end and so starts their fight against them and getting time flowing again. This ends in them getting trapped in the diner and that's where Steel is coming from.
Our first adventure with them on screen is when Time, being the evil thing that it can be, is responsible for the anomalies that take the children's parents away as well as having the creepy effect of stopping all of the clocks when it starts up. Sapphire and Steel arrive in this old house to find the missing parents of the children, only to discover that nursery rhymes are what's able to trigger the ghosts, refractions of time and the dead, into doing their thing. This leads to a wonderful adventure in the house where Steel is an utter asshole to two children, ghosts (refractions) start walking around the house and altering things in the house like the door of a room, Sapphire ends up in a picture where she nearly dies by the hands of ghost-soldiers and Steel eventually saves her by dropping his temperature to absolute zero in order to weaken the ghost. This happens to save Sapphire but ends up in him sleeping for some time (and Sapphire giving him a shoulder rub) which ends up with Lead showing up at the house to give them a hand, and with his help they rescue the family from the ghost hiding in the first stone laid for the foundation (by Steel freezing it and Lead crushing it).
They then end up at an abandoned railroad station that's being haunted by the ghosts of the dead and meet a man that's investigating them. This man happens to annoy Steel to no end as their working methods are vastly different and Steel tries to brush him off, but he ends up not being able to when the lead ghost in the station basically tells him off for being an asshole, and then Steel nearly dying by almost getting possessed by a ghost. This leads to them holding a seance, because this totally always ends well, and while they get the information they need, Steel gets antsy and yanks his hand away from the circle and causes Sapphire to get stuck between her body and the afterlife which of course, leads to Steel getting pissy and trying his hardest to get her back. What this ends up as however, is Steel falling for a trick that is a ghost looking like Sapphire, ending up in barbed wire and the entire group missing twelve days wherein the force that's causing all this problem, the darkness, ushers on the dead souls from the railway station. Steel being Steel ends up making a deal with the darkness using Sapphire as the go between and the deal is to send them back twelve days and Steel will give the darkness a thing to feed off of as it feeds off of resentment. However being the crafty man that he is, he has Sapphire stop them going back fully to twelve days previously and they end up eleven days previously which is enough time for them to talk sense into the ghosts of the people being fed upon by the darkness and they finally go to rest. The darkness arrives, pissed, and Steel gives it Tully, the man that has helped them this entire time, and by Tully dying early it pisses off Time and the darkness feeds off of Time's resentment and anger for centuries and it delays the need to deal with that enemy again for a while.
And it also shows that Steel is in fact a massive asshole but that's nothing new.
The next adventure we see they end up in an apartment building looking for a room that doesn't exist. Or at least not by the naked eye at least but it turns out there's three observation capsules from the future all around and that's where the issue is. Because they can't get into the capsules however, they end up getting the help of Silver, who is a busy body and can't keep his hands to himself and touches Sapphire the entire time and she in turn touches him. Apart from Steel's jealousy, this isn't so bad (except for a force attacking Steel while he's investigating the outside of the capsule as a swan and nearly sending him off the building) when they get into a capsule where they discover a family is there to observe the time period. Which is all well and good but then they discover that the child is able to mess with time itself and is being controlled by some other force and that they have to stop it somehow. They end up back in the future while doing this and see the child as an adult who sends Silver to the past after discovering that the capsule is running off of blood (of a variety of creatures) and then they get attacked by one of those creatures that's actually controlling the capsule in the first place and the child.
I'm pretty sure it was the left over bits of a shark as humanity has taken to not eating animals any longer in the distant future and is instead using them to run things and build things and control things. So it was pissed off shark bits that attacked them.
Yeah did you forget this is an '80s sci-fi show?
After they feed the shark thing in the wall, they finally get around to fixing things up and getting back to their actual time and getting Silver back, who had ended up missing after the child touched him and sent him somewhere in time.
The next two adventures aren't anything particularly fancy, a foe that lives in photographs and can put people into them and kill them that way that they trap in a kaleidoscope for some time, and a party that goes through some time travel mess. The party ends in them trying to make sure a murder actually happens to keep time flowing smoothly. They both involve the usual amounts of touching from these two and it's really nothing special at all.
The finale of the series however, is something specialish. Sent to a garage/diner like thing our intrepid duo meet up with Silver to figure out what all is going on and why the place is out of time, literally. Time has stopped moving in the place and they're tasked with finding out why, and why some people are still around in it when there's no one else. They beat their heads against the wall metaphorically speaking as they talk to the few people there and eventually discover it's a trap set up for all three of them by someone. The who winds up being a group higher up in their organization that have come to the conclusion that the three must die, that their time is at an end and so starts their fight against them and getting time flowing again. This ends in them getting trapped in the diner and that's where Steel is coming from.