I've not seen this reported anywhere else, but ITV has approached Sapphire and Steel creator PJ Hammond about a possible remake of the series. According to Action TV (which just did a Sapphire and Steel issue, so I suspect this is how the news came out), “it is very early days and no decision has been made with a possible new series.” But ITV are at least thinking about it.
What do you reckon? Good news or bad “trampled all over my memories” news?
Updates and related entries
January 26, 2007: Looks like the remake's off.
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August 25, 2006 | Reply
S&S is one of those shows which I haven't watched since it came out, although a couple of people have offered to lend me the DVDs. I really loved it when it was on, and I don't want to realise it was actually woodenly-acted bollocks.
This all stems from watching Blake's 7 re-runs...
I haven't heard any of Big Finish's S&S stories, but David Warner and Susannah Harker seem like good casting (although having them both apparently young, when neither of them are, was a big part of the original series...)
August 25, 2006 | Reply
I know what you mean about B7. Thought it was great, then watched them again at university and realised it was bollocks. But I watched a few of them again recently, and actually they were a lot better than I recall. The dialogue's actually pretty good in places and it's a real attempt to do sci-fi (rather than just do "now but in the future"), even though the budget fails it.
I only saw one S&S story when it first aired and that was the last one. It was so good, I can pretty much remember it scene by scene. So I only saw them all once they came out at university. Showed them to a friend and he had actual nightmares.
The good thing about it is it really doesn't attempt to explain itself. The explanations are so unhelpful and so not the usual kinds of things you get in science-based sci-fi that you're essentially dealing with an entirely alien way of thinking. But the stories are a little long: eight episodes for story two? Not really necessary, even though there are some real pants-wetting moments and a nasty ending.
Susannah Harker and David Warner are both good casting. Pity the stories are so ordinary for the most-part. I review them briefly over here. And I'll probably be doing full reviews from now on, at the request of Ms Rullsenberg.
August 25, 2006 | Reply
The one I can remember scene by scene was the haunted railway station...
August 25, 2006 | Reply
That's story two. You know what I mean, then? Sapphire's face? Sapphire's eyes? The encroaching blackness?
Heebie-jeebies alert, everyone!