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Sapphire & Steel: Assignment II: The Railway Station
8 episodes · premiered Jul 31, 1979
In an abandoned railway station, parapsychologist George Tully conducts an investigation, as two operators, Sapphire and Steel arrive for an investigation of their own. A malevolent, growing force identifying itself as the Darkness is feeding on the resentment of the dead, using as a focus Private Sam Pearce, the apparition of a World War I soldier shot and killed eleven minutes after the armistice had been signed at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The Darkness 'recruits' other resentful shades from the past who also died unfairly as a result of coming or completed wars. Sapphire and Steel must decide if the life of one living human is worth the price of the danger presented by the growing Darkness.
- Episode 1: Assignment II: The Railway Station (1) Jul 31, 1979 For their new assignment, Sapphire and Steel arrive at an abandoned railway station haunted by supernatural figures. Paranormal investigator George Tully has been observing the station for…
- Episode 2: Assignment II: The Railway Station (2) Aug 2, 1979 Sapphire and Steel discover the ghost is a young World War I soldier who died in battle. They begin to suspect the railway station might be a recruitment ground for the dead. The…
- Episode 3: Assignment II: The Railway Station (3) Aug 7, 1979 After Sapphire narrowly saves Steel from meeting the same fate as the doomed fighter pilot, Steel becomes determined to figure out why the ghosts are being recruited at the station. Since…
- Episode 4: Assignment II: The Railway Station (4) Aug 9, 1979 Steel continues to taunt the ghost of the solider but pauses when he finds Sapphire and Tully unconscious. A hallway in the railway station has become a re-creation of a submarine where…
- Episode 5: Assignment II: The Railway Station (5) Oct 30, 1979 With Sapphire as a medium, Tully and Steel are able to communicate with the ghost of a woman who was once the soldier's schoolteacher. As they prod the spirit with questions, she reveals…
- Episode 6: Assignment II: The Railway Station (6) Nov 1, 1979 With Sapphire unconscious, Steel is unnerved by the appearance of her ghost on the railway platform with the other spirits. After Tully agrees to watch over Sapphire's body, Steel has a…
- Episode 7: Assignment II: The Railway Station (7) Nov 6, 1979 Sapphire and Steel awake to find they have been shunted forward in time twelve days. In that time, the darkness has gone and so have all the ghosts with it. A frightened Tully tries to…
- Episode 8: Assignment II: The Railway Station (8) Nov 8, 1979 Sapphire succeeds in making contact with the darkness at a great personal risk. Steel negotiates with it by promising a powerful source of resentment in exchange for a return to present…