User Reviews

Rob has been lured to the basement by his father. He later realises that this is a trap when he sees the figure of his mother.

Like Sapphire before him, he is in the house but in an earlier time period. The others can still hear him though.

Steel needs to bring Rob back before he is lost and some entity is already in Rob's mind.

It is Steel who spots that the entity of time has made a mistake. He plans to save Rob and bring his parents back but it means putting Helen in danger.

There are again some creepy imagery, especially with Rob in the 1700s with the soldiers about.

Lead is a rousing figure, actor Val Pringle makes use of musical stage experience in this episode.

Overall this was a strong opening adventure, it gives little away about the premise of the show. It was too long at six parts and it could easily had been a more focused four part story.

Rob is lured down to the basement by a being he believes is his father, Sapphire and Steel, together with the help of Lead, face a battle to get him back.

I thought it was strong end to Assignment number one, Rob has been placed in the most impossible of situations, it's certainly a test of Sapphire and Steel's capabilities to see if they can get him back, and put things right.

The best scenes are definitely those of Rob being lured down to the basement by his father, and those sequences with the mother, I can imagine they gave many a youngster back in 1979 a couple of nightmares. The scene with the coffin, nicely macabre.

It's been a solid first story, and apart from the lull in episode five, it's been an engaging, and fairly rewarding watch.

Some nice production values here, I think the sets look rather nice, especially the basement, who doesn't love an eerie, cobwebbed basement?

I've sat and watched the six (aside from The burial of HRH Queen Elizabeth II,) and I've been hooked, that says it all, it's been a really enjoyable six episodes.

8/10.