'Adventure One' (6 Parts) by P.J. Hammond

a.k.a. 'Escape Through a Crack in Time'
'The Nursery Rhymes'
'The Clocks'
'The House That Jack Built'
'The House'

In a remote, coastal house, a mother and father read nursery rhymes to their daughter Helen, while, downstairs, fourteen-year-old Rob is doing his homework. One by one the clocks stop and Rob and Helen’s parents mysteriously vanish. Rob phones the local policeman and asks for help, and, seconds later, the enigmatic Sapphire and Steel arrive at the house. Sapphire explains that time is a corridor, through which the forces of chaos are attempting to break through in order to gain access to our reality, and that Rob’s parents have been taken as part of a new attempt. The children and the time detectives are threatened by the forces of time, which uses Roundhead soldiers and images of plague victims. Sensing a threat, time imprisons Sapphire in a painting, but she is rescued when Steel reduces his body temperature to absolute zero, enabling her to escape. The two time agents are then joined by another of their fellow elementals, Lead. Together they trace the trigger that enabled of time’s intrusion to the original cornerstone of the old house. Sapphire, Steel and Lead then lure the enemy into the cellar, and imprison it within the stone, which Lead subsequently crushes out of existence. As Sapphire, Steel and Lead disappear, Rob and Helen’s parents return as though they had never been gone.


Joanna Lumley (Sapphire), David McCallum (Steel), Steven O'Shea (Rob), Tamasin Bridge (Helen), Val Pringle (Lead), Felicity Harrison (Mother), John Golightly (Father), Charles Pemberton (Policeman), Ronald Goodale (Countryman)

Directed by Shaun O'Riordan

TX:
Part 1 - Tuesday, 10th July, 1979 @ 7.00pm
Part 2 - Thursday, 12th July, 1979 @ 7.00pm
Part 3 - Tuesday, 17th July, 1979 @ 7.00pm
Part 4 - Thursday, 19th July, 1979 @ 7.00pm
Part 5 - Tuesday, 24th July, 1979 @ 7.00pm
Part 6 - Thursday, 26th July, 1979 @ 7.00pm

Notes:
*Featuring Sapphire and Steel, and introducing Lead