Oooh, Sapphire and Steel. I only found DVDs of this a few years ago, but I would certainly have loved it as a kid.
Randomly, I enjoy that the opening "high-tech" credits are clearly the direct predecessor to the Hitchhiker's Guide TV graphics (1981).
Could it be remade today? Sneakily I hope so. It would be someone's very strange passion project, but a lot of those are getting filmed these days. True Detective season 1, for example -- that was a show that would nearly have been S&S if it had been willing to take two more steps into the paranormal.
I listened to the first set of (Big Finish) audio dramas. I agree they're not as good, but the problem isn't changing the actors. I mean, that's *a* problem, but I'd say that the audio dramas follow the TV shows too neatly. The original shows are much more fluid! The characters are the only fixed point; "Time" as an antagonist doesn't really play by knowable rules. I've only been through the TV series once, but my sense was that Time doesn't behave the same from one assignment to the next. That would be hard to sustain in a modern remake. It would have been hard to sustain in the 80s, if more than six stories had ever gotten made.
Sarah Monette did a nice writeup on her LJ a few years ago... yes, it got imported into Dreamwidth. (http://truepenny.dreamwidth.org/465406.html) "No they're not human; Steel mostly can't even be bothered to pass."
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Randomly, I enjoy that the opening "high-tech" credits are clearly the direct predecessor to the Hitchhiker's Guide TV graphics (1981).
Could it be remade today? Sneakily I hope so. It would be someone's very strange passion project, but a lot of those are getting filmed these days. True Detective season 1, for example -- that was a show that would nearly have been S&S if it had been willing to take two more steps into the paranormal.
I listened to the first set of (Big Finish) audio dramas. I agree they're not as good, but the problem isn't changing the actors. I mean, that's *a* problem, but I'd say that the audio dramas follow the TV shows too neatly. The original shows are much more fluid! The characters are the only fixed point; "Time" as an antagonist doesn't really play by knowable rules. I've only been through the TV series once, but my sense was that Time doesn't behave the same from one assignment to the next. That would be hard to sustain in a modern remake. It would have been hard to sustain in the 80s, if more than six stories had ever gotten made.
Sarah Monette did a nice writeup on her LJ a few years ago... yes, it got imported into Dreamwidth. (http://truepenny.dreamwidth.org/465406.html) "No they're not human; Steel mostly can't even be bothered to pass."