Sapphire & Steel (TV Series) Assignment One: Part 5 (1979) User Reviews

Assignment One: Part 5

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 21 June 2020]

This is the episode I thought it began to sag a little. There was a lot of repetition and that was the cliffhanger as the soldiers repeat the words upstairs and downstairs as they were in a loop.

The cliffhanger caused by the escaping page of a nursery rhyme which Sapphire had to deal with by summoning her powers.

As always time tries to manipulate the children. In this episode the father appears and tries to trick Rob by getting him to distrust Sapphire and Steel.

Again I thought this was too easily done, another danger of stretching the story into six parts. Like Sapphire, Rob is in danger of being the house but getting lost.

A little slow, but a decent continuation.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 6/10 · 19 September 2022]

The break in time slips, as Helen spies a passage from a book of nursery rhymes, and bad the verse stuck in her head. Rob gets a call from his father, who's waiting in his study.

I feared this would be the case, with this being the fifth episode, it lulls, there's actually quite a big drop off, we get nothing new here, just repeated sequences, which is a shame, as it has felt like it's been leading somewhere.

The best sequences are definitely those of Rob with his father, those are actually quite sinister, quite chilling, a desperate Rob believing that the cold, icy figure is indeed his father.

I am liking the character of Lead, he's interesting, he's loud, he's certainly very strong, I'm not sure why, but I'm reminded of Gan from Blake's 7, he's definitely packing some brawn, and always on hand to kick a door down, or bring some muscle,

6/10.