Assignment I
(1979)
Overview
Escape Through A Crack in Time None of the stories had on-screen titles, or any official titles assigned by the writers. The Region 1 Complete Series DVD release gives the titles "Escape Through a Crack in Time", "The Railway Station", "The Creature's Revenge", "The Man Without a Face", "Dr. McDee Must Die" and "The Trap", respectively. These titles have often been cited as having been created by science fiction magazine Time Screen
Cast
as Steel
as Sapphire
Episodes
Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (1) 0.0
July 10, 1979
On an ordinary evening, a mother and father sing nursery rhymes to their daughter Helen before bed. Their teenage son R…
Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (2) 0.0
July 12, 1979
Sapphire and Steel determine that Helen's bedroom is the location of a time break caused by the recitation of nursery r…
Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (3) 0.0
July 17, 1979
Sapphire and Steel investigate the upstairs hallway after Rob sees a pair of ghostly soldiers on the landing. Unbeknown…
Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (4) 0.0
July 19, 1979
Steel's drastic measures to save Sapphire and trap the pool of light prove effective, if extremely dangerous. Sapphire …
Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (5) 0.0
July 24, 1979
The time break strengthens after a nursery rhyme hidden in a book becomes stuck in Helen's head. Sapphire burns the nur…
Assignment I: Escape through a Crack in Time (6) 0.0
July 26, 1979
Lured by a vision of his father, Rob walks into a trap in the basement. A pool of light has taken him back in time to t…