A Few Other Series Thirteen Things...

Here's a few other items I did based on series 13. Three annuals and a game.

The Swarm and Azure annual is inspired on the 1981 Sapphire & Steel annual with the two villains posed in front of a clock like the famous publicity still of the series.

The Division annual is an original composition that features the characters as depicted in the episode "Once, Upon Time" but gives them their real faces as opposed to those of the Doctor's companions. Maybe it's bit dark looking for a kids annual but I think I've got the photoshopping on the figures right.

Jerricho at Large is one featuring the eccentric professor character played by Kevin McNally in the latter half of the series. I think it's safe to say that he was the story's stand-out guest character. This - along with the Swarm and Azure design - is available from RedBubble as a journal or notebook. I was messaged shortly after I uploaded it to the site by someone who said they were buying one as a gift for the actor. Not heard anything back yet though...

And finally, the title of episode two was 'War of the Sontarans' which got me thinking... and photoshopping... and ending up with this...

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Sapphire and Steel have been assigned to your grocery order... again!

When times are bored I usually turn to Sapphire and Steel. And creating a few more products to add to my shopping list. 

Soon I hope to have accrued enough to create one of those tabloid size advertising 'leaflets' Iceland pop through your letterbox once a week...

 

Celebrate The Day With Some Sapphire and Steel Pancake Mix...

It's Pancake Tuesday Shrove Day and what better way to celebrate than to dig up that old Sapphire and Steel gag...

Sapphire and Steel Emergency Hotline!

"When there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call?" 

Stuff the Ghostbusterers. They're ex-directory anyway! 

Now there's only one number to remember!

(I did this in December. You can tell can't you.)

A Selection of Classic Christmas Radio and TVTimes!

It's nearly that time of the year when newsagents and corner shops have to clear out that spare room and make space under the stairs to store their vast deliveries of festive TV guides. 

Mammoth double issues with mammoth double prices will soon be weighing down the dump bins just inside the doors of local supermarkets. Some of the dumpbins may also be still standing by the end of their first day on the job.

So to celebrate and in anticipation of the mad rush to see what five year old movie we'll be sleeping through on Christmas Day, here's a stocking full of seasonal Radio and TVTimes for your amusing...

Vintage TV Viewmaster Reels

Viewmaster. The amazing gadget that allows you to see 3D pictures of everything from Thunderbirds to Tom & Jerry to the Grand Canyon to something called Dr WHO.

Here's a selection from the 70s and early 80s that money can't buy.

Sapphire & Steel Instant Porridge

It's porridge and it's instant... It's Sapphire & Steel's Instant Porridge!!

Sapphire & Steel Liquid Washing Tablet Things...

Heavy transuranic soiling?

Send for Sapphire & Steel!!!

 

Sapphire and Steel Low Fat Spread...

I've absolutely no idea where this one came from.

Typical...

Mrs Sharples' Dark Secret

A year or so ago, I tweeted an ad for a Sapphire & Steel ice lolly which seemed to go down well on social media - particularly those who genuinely thought they remembered them from their childhood. 

Indeed, some eBay entrepreneur - believing it to be a real ad - turned it into a fridge magnet. (He was told of his error!).

Here's this year's nostalgic ice lolly. 

Mmmm. 

Real liquorice water ice!!

TV's Sapphire & Steel Make Microwave Cooking Easy!

Ever fumbled with your new sophisticated microwave oven?

Maybe you've undercooked your scrambled eggs?

Or have nuked your Findus Ready Meal into a solid mass of carbon?

Then you need help from television top time agents...

Vesta - the makers of Britain's most popular dried substitute food stuffs - bring you Sapphire & Steel's complete guide to microwave cooking...

Time is now on your side with this 'new' handy guide. 

Two things every episode of Sapphire & Steel should have had...

A proper logo and a story title in its title sequence....



Thank you.

The Original Dalek Death Ray Ice Lolly!

When Wall's launched the Dalek Death Ray ice lolly in 1975, their manufacturing department took the name a little too literally resulting in it being hastily withdrawn and replaced by the now familiar 'mint and chocolate flavour' ice cream. 



















In the absence of an effective death ray, I give you the official Sapphire and Steel ice lolly from Lyons Maid....

09.04.2017 - IMPORTANT UPDATE: The above Sapphire and Steel ice lolly is (like all of the TV merchandise on this blog) a fake created by me. It's silly isn't it? Even in the 1970s, who'd have produced an ice lolly with what is effectively a stainless steel knife at its centre. And what kind of company would use "I don't trust it!" as a by-line on its advertising. No. It's a completely made up piece of merchandise. But it hasn't stopped folk from being fooled by it over the years. When I originally posted it, some enterprising ebayer decided they'd produce fridge magnets using the image believing it to be a genuine ad. Comments on Twitter have also come from people who genuinely think they remember it. I will say it again. The Sapphire and Steel does not exist. It is a figment of my and hopefully, your imagination. Goodnight. x

EastEnder's 'Lucy Beale Murder' Plot Takes Another Unexpected Turn...

Seems they kept this one quiet until the Afterparty...

Sapphire & Steel - Their most terrifying adventure yet...

Sapphire & Steel - the popular and scary 1970s ITV drama series about two mysterious investigators of temporal anomalies - only ran for a mere six adventures. The final story saw them trapped forever in limbo and viewers were left wondering whatever became of them.

Not a lot of people realise that ATV/ITC actually made a seventh adventure but it was deemed too terrifying for broadcast. 

Here's ITC's original trade ad for it. 

What do you think...?

"Whatever you do, don't look around you.....!"