I don't have that much to add but I do have this to stress, that it was unique. Virtually every TV drama series ever made can be easily situated in a genre; but Sapphire and Steel was unique.
It was, to be sure, supernatural drama, but not along the lines of the conventional diabolical or ghostly. It was metaphysical drama. Metaphysics as drama. Kabbala as drama. Concepts of time, space and other planes of existence as themes for drama.
Drama not just to titillate or relax but make you think about the confines of your own existence and what high strangeness might surround it.
From W.B Yeats: The Old Stone Cross
'Not knowing what unearthly stuff Rounds a mighty scene.'
There was nothing like it before and there has been nothing like it since. (As one TV commentator noted about another more conventional supernatural series, TV prefers the mundane.)
It was, to be sure, supernatural drama, but not along the lines of the conventional diabolical or ghostly. It was metaphysical drama. Metaphysics as drama. Kabbala as drama. Concepts of time, space and other planes of existence as themes for drama.
Drama not just to titillate or relax but make you think about the confines of your own existence and what high strangeness might surround it.
From W.B Yeats: The Old Stone Cross
'Not knowing what unearthly stuff Rounds a mighty scene.'
There was nothing like it before and there has been nothing like it since. (As one TV commentator noted about another more conventional supernatural series, TV prefers the mundane.)