Sapphire, Steel and Silver are trapped by the Time Box at the petrol station. Is there anyone who can help them?
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The time-hopping adventures of two agents with superpowers
More infoA mother and father disappear from their remote, coastal home whilst reading nursery rhymes to their daughter. Their fourteen-year old son Rob rings for the police, but it is time-agents Sapphire and Steel who come to the rescue.
Sapphire and Steel tell Rob about the very real dangers of the Time Corridor - a corridor that surrounds everything but has weak spots where Time itself, or evil forces, can break into the present and wreak havoc.
Rob decides the only course of action is to escape from the house with his young sister, Helen.
Rob hears voices in Helen's room and Sapphire becomes trapped in a painting. Only Steel has the power to release her.
Another elemental, Lead, comes to join Sapphire and Steel to help in their fight to overcome the forces of evil in the house.
Sapphire, Steel and Lead call upon Helen to act as bait and entice the enemy into the cellar.
Sapphire and Steel investigate events at a disused railway station, where the Darkness is feeding on the resentment of those who died prematurely - including a WWI soldier blown up on Armistice Day and three workers suffocated in a submarine.
The time agents call in Tully, a ghost hunter, to help contact the angry beings.
Sapphire and Steel see visions of the deaths of those who died prematurely.
The Darkness targets ghost hunter Tully, and closes in on him.
Steel has the idea of holding a seance in an attempt to contact the dead beings.
Steel interrogates the spirits of the dead and finds himself in trouble.
Time is advanced by twelve days.
Steel offers a bargain to the Darkness conditional on it returning time to its proper course and freeing its victims.
Fifteen hundred years in the future, a young couple occupy an invisible time capsule and attempt to live in the twentieth century as part of an experiment.
Time is resentful of humankind's progress and begins to menace the couple and their baby.
Time ages the baby into an adult changeling and gives him power to age or regress material objects.
The changeling threatens Sapphire and Steel with his power.
Sapphire and Steel are joined by Silver and confront the changeling - but Silver comes off badly and Steel has to come to the rescue.
The time agents track down the source of the disturbance and have to decide how to deal with it.
Sapphire and Steel investigate an old junk shop where the original landlord and a tenant have mysteriously disappeared.
Liz, a stripper with connections to the junk shop, demands to see the new landlord's face.
Sapphire and Steel confront the new landlord - a shape that uses photographs to move between time-zones and to imprison people.
The malignant Shape goes on the offensive, trapping Sapphire and Steel. It seems there is only Liz who can help.
Lord Arthur Mullrine organises a party to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his business partnership with the late Dr George McDee.
During the party, time rolls back fifty years, and guests not alive at the time are murdered. To add to the confusion, the late Dr McDee arrives.
Sapphire and Steel realise the events of the night of Dr McDee's death are beginning to recreate themselves - and that the murderer must be one of the guests.
Lord Mullrine's secretary is safely outside the fifty year time distortion, but unable to help those trapped inside it.
Sapphire confides the story to Felix - and then grants him unusual powers.
Time is trying to rewrite history by ensuring Dr McDee's survival of the murder - but Sapphire and Steel must ensure that Dr McDee dies for everyone's sake.
Sapphire and Steel arrive at an abandoned service station and meet Silver. It appears that time has stopped as people from different eras begin to arrive - including a couple from 1948, an old man from 1925 and a travelling player from 1957.
The time agents are suspicious of a couple's lack of interest in the modern surroundings of the petrol station, and of the strange unused condition of the musician's tambourine.
The strangers are revealed as Transient Beings who have escaped imprisonment in the past, and plan to use a Time Box to trap Sapphire, Steel and Silver.
Sapphire, Steel and Silver are trapped by the Time Box at the petrol station. Is there anyone who can help them?