I am under-caffeinated and mentally fried and trying to brace myself for today, but I just wanted to say that I am so so so delighted to see you posting about the show, and that you appreciate it so much. It also gives me the idea of occupying some of today with some Sapphire and Steel rewatching.
Six serials aired on ITV over a span of four years, irregularly spaced and eventually canceled
It always entertains me that they had McCallum fresh off Man From Uncle and Lumley fresh off New Avengers -- they must have thought they were getting a guaranteed blockbuster. Instead they got ... this.
The colorful terminology of John le Carré's Circus—scalphunters, lamplighters, ferrets, inquisitors, the Competition, the Cousins, and the Reptile Fund—covers a very cold world indeed.
I can't remember whether you're familiar with The Sandbaggers, another series which operates at similar levels of dry-ice coldness.
"No, my watch stopped."
—so I think I should perhaps get out of here before something comes out of the music I'm listening to.
GOOD PLAN. What with that and finding that it's been influencing your work years before you watched it ... *g*
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Six serials aired on ITV over a span of four years, irregularly spaced and eventually canceled
It always entertains me that they had McCallum fresh off Man From Uncle and Lumley fresh off New Avengers -- they must have thought they were getting a guaranteed blockbuster. Instead they got ... this.
The colorful terminology of John le Carré's Circus—scalphunters, lamplighters, ferrets, inquisitors, the Competition, the Cousins, and the Reptile Fund—covers a very cold world indeed.
I can't remember whether you're familiar with The Sandbaggers, another series which operates at similar levels of dry-ice coldness.
"No, my watch stopped."
—so I think I should perhaps get out of here before something comes out of the music I'm listening to.
GOOD PLAN. What with that and finding that it's been influencing your work years before you watched it ... *g*