Doctor Who Club of Australia

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I thought I start this general thread of Sapphire & Steel as a result of finally getting the first CD release from the audio series produced by Big Finish Productions, The Passenger. So thanks to the DWCA for making it available for purchase.

The 1979 -82 TV series created by Peter J Hammond (credited in the series as PJ Hammond and now a writer on Torchwood) starred David McCallum as Steel and one time Fatal Death Doctor Joanna Lumley as Sapphire as two beings who are time detectives investigating disturbances in time.

In May 2004 Big Finish Productions announced they had acquired the rights to produce audio plays of Sapphire & Steel but this time the title characters had to be recast. This was due to McCallum working in the United States as a regular in the TV series NCIS and Lumley simply not wanting to play Sapphire again.

In their places for the audio adventures were David Warner as Steel and Susannah Harker as Sapphire. Warner and Harker had earlier appeared in Big Finish's Doctor Who releases including Warner as an Unbound Doctor.

So far on Big Finish's debut CD releases of the audio series, The Passenger I finished the first episode in this four-parter:
Prior to The Passenger's release in May 2005, it had been said that the audio series would take place before the final TV story. However from the dialogue in the first episode of The Passenger, the audio series takes place afterwards which is good as I prefer continuing rather than missing adventures.
So far I think this has been a good start to the series. Warner and Harker are good as the title characters and the cliffhanger was something I did not expect. It is a shocker.

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The Passenger Part 2:
Mark Gatiss makes his debut as Gold and quite sinister at it.
Quite a revelation at the cliffhanger even though it is quite familiar to a certain Agatha Christie novel.

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The Passenger Part 3:
The story becomes more intriguing as we discover more about Philip Burgess which leads to a very climatic cliffhanger.

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The Passenger Part 4:
A satisfying conclusion to an overall satisfying opening story to the audio series.

Keen to hear more of the audio series (when my budget allows it).