'Adventure Four' (4 Parts) by P.J. Hammond

a.k.a. 'The Man Without a Face'
'The Photographs'
'"Which Is The Way To London Town?'
'"The Shape'
'Pictures'

Sapphire and Steel investigate an old junk shop, whose landlord, together with one of his tenants, Ruth, has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Eliciting the help of Liz, Ruth’s roommate, the two time agents encounter children from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. They then discover that the new landlord is a faceless being who moves between time-zones via photographs, and who has the ability to imprison or release people from them. Sapphire and Steel discover that the Shape was originally released by the landlord's hobby of splicing together photographs from different time periods. They realise that Ruth has been trapped in a photograph, but the faceless Shape burns her alive within inside it before they can rescue her. The Shape then traps Sapphire and Steel within photographic mages, but they are saved by Liz. Sapphire and Steel formulate a plan to trap the Shape within a kaleidoscope. The plan is a success, and the two agents depart in order to hide the kaleidoscope aboard a ship destined to sink under the ocean.


Joanna Lumley (Sapphire), David McCallum (Steel), Alyson Spiro (Liz), Philip Bird (Shape [1]), Bob Hornery (Shape [2-4]), Shelagh Stephenson (Ruth), Natalie Hedges (Parasol Girl)

Directed by David Foster

TX:
Part 1 - Tuesday, 27th January 1981 @ 8.00pm
Part 2 - Thursday, 29th January 1981 @ 8.00pm
Part 3 - Tuesday, 3rd February 1981 @ 8.00pm
Part 4 - Thursday, 5th February 1981@ 8.00pm

Notes:
*Featuring Sapphire and Steel

*The title sequence to episode 3 differs from the others, replacing Lead with Mercury