Sapphire & Steel - Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981

Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981

The first and only Sapphire & Steel Annual was published in late 1980 by World International Publishing Ltd. at £1.95, and featured a number of text stories and features. The front cover used the same photograph as that on P.J. Hammond's 1979 Star Books novelisation of Adventure One.

P.J. Hammond did not write the stories for Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981, but he was sent proofs to read in advance of publication. His only reservations with the stories were that Sapphire and Steel were able to move back in time, which he felt tended to contradict the premise set in the television series that Time was only allowed to break into the present day. However, this did not worry Hammond too much as, like Look-In, the Annual was aimed at younger readers.

At the time of writing, Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981 has yet to be made available in PDF format as a Special Feature on DVD.

Note: Where the content of a feature is not obvious from its title, a brief description has been provided.

• Stories: Bid Time Return, Rogue Robot, Chamber of Horrors, Star Gazing, Finger of Blood.
• Features: Telepathy – The Hidden Link?, The Bermuda Triangle, Mystery of the Skies (UFOs), They Vanished Without Trace (the mystery of the Mary Celeste, and ships that mysteriously disappeared), The Lost Colony (the mysterious and unresolved disappearance of the first English settlement on the island of Roanoke in the 16th century), Magical Mystery Quiz, The Final Frontier (black holes), The Remarkable Bloxham Tapes (people regressed to previous existences under hypnosis), The Man Who Makes Pictures (Ted Serios and his amazing ability to imprint pictures onto photographic film, simply by staring into cameras).