Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #190677 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-31
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

sapphire and steel are back
This is the latest audio play in the ongoing series of them that are based on sapphire and steel, a tv programme from the late 70's early 1980's featuring two strange humanoid beings called sapphire and steel who deal with threats to reality, preventing things from outside of time breaing in.

There have been two previous seasons of audios based on the show, and this is the start of the third. It's not the best of jumping on points, so I recommend if you've not heard them before to go to the first audio, entitled the passenger, and work through them in order after that.

This does follow on quite closely from the last story of the previous season so it will have helped to have heard that.

And minimal pre publicity meant I got quite a big surprise when I saw the cover of this as it wasn't what I was expecting. I will say no more, regular listeners. You will thank me for it.

The story is a very good one, and a typical story for the show, with some scary and haunting moments, and a few good twists in the plot.

The cd has four episodes spread over two discs, each running roughly twenty five minutes in total.

The penultimate track of disc four is five minute chat with some of the cast.

And the track after that has trailers for the next three releases in this season.

And whatever you do, don't turn this track off before the end. let the cd turn itself off. You'll thank me for that as well.

A great audio in a great range of them.

Good dynamic between the players
I liked the rather different dynamic between the cast this time - the Australian slant. The clocks stopping has got to be a sapphire and steel stock in trade, and the trapped on a cd has been seen before in other tales - playing with the medium and their audience.