Revisitations

Publicity shots of David Collings as Silver (snatched from the DVD galleries for Assignments Three and Six).

You know how in some shows there is a character who comes on and it’s like someone switched on all the lights, metaphorically?  In Sapphire & Steel, that’s Silver.  Only with Silver it’s literal as well as metaphorical.

Everyone needs a brilliant, shiny, flirty Element who can make light-bulbs glow.  Why wouldn’t they?  (That seems to be Silver’s philosophy, anyway.)

Silver/Sapphire/Steel and its component ‘ships

4. Silver/Sapphire/Steel

Elemental OT3: They’re so beautiful and mysterious and inhuman and flirty; they’re in each other’s heads and they complement each other perfectly.  Even when Silver is being annoying and Steel is glaring a lot.

(And a newbie might reasonably ask: what are they doing in these pics?  Well… I don’t know.  Nobody does.  They just each pose perfectly in relation to the other two and then move/swap places in a sort of slow unending dance while fighting Time.  Occasionally there is also flirting/arguing/working stuff out.  Or something.)

How to steal a necklace and turn it into a flashy gold tea towel (not shown in this diagram). Or: if you’re human and Silver starts flirting with you, keep an eye your jewellery/light bulbs/doorknobs/any shiny thing.

Silver ♥

(Because I had the plain version of these from the other post and I love this bit.  A lot.)

It is a sad but true thing that all my terribly witty David-Collings-poses-in-doorways pics would not fit in one Tumblr post.  It is even sadder that I couldn’t delete the rest and instead posted them here.  (I promise this is it.)

#1.  It doesn’t, however, despite appearances, enable tv detectives to find your corpse any quicker.  Strange but true.  #2. Also iron balustrades, but you have to stop somewhere.  #4. But it’s not the same.  #5. There’s almost always someone looking at him in these caps.  Mostly likely with a “What the…?  Okaay…” expression.  #6. And also flirting, probably.  #8. Sometimes you can even use doorways to leave and enter places.  Really.

David Collings likes to pose in doorways.  (I made this to cheer myself up.  I trust it’s plain I’m not mocking too much.  I think David Collings is kind of amazing.  But he likes to pose in doorways.  Or beside any handy pillar or post.  And why not?)

#1. Probably since 1964, but I lack full pictorial evidence. #2. If I knew how to gif, Babington stroking the doorpost would probably merit one. #6. This deserves some kind of special award for marvellously-inappropriate-yet-appropriate posing in a doorway.  (Why does BAFTA not recognise that as a category?) #7-10 Silver = ♥ always

My one and only OT3, let me show you. 

Sapphire, Silver and Steel being all mysterious and non-human.  And posing beautifully.  (Joanna Lumley, David McCallum, David Collings in Assignment 6 of Sapphire & Steel.)