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* CreatorBacklash: Hammond has agreed with general fan opinion that "Assignment Three" isn't very good, believing retrospectively that he let his enthusiasm for creating a GreenAesop overtake the basics of writing the story.
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* OldShame: Hammond has agreed with general fan opinion that "Assignment Three" isn't very good, believing retrospectively that he let his enthusiasm for creating a GreenAesop overtake the basics of writing the story.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the originally scripted ending to Assignment 6, [[spoiler: Silver would have been [[SealedGoodInACan sealed in the cafe]] with the other two. If more episodes had been commissioned, he would have resolved the cliffhanger by building a device to break the three of them out.]] When it became clear that there would be no Assignment 7, this [[IncrediblyLamePun element]] of the storyline was removed.
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** In the originally scripted ending to Assignment 6, [[spoiler: Silver would have been [[SealedGoodInACan sealed in the cafe]] with the other two. If more episodes had been commissioned, he would have resolved the cliffhanger by building a device to break the three of them out.]] When it became clear that there would be no Assignment 7, this [[IncrediblyLamePun element]] of the storyline wasremoved.removed.
** Similarly, Hammond's original idea for the WhamShot at the end of the final episode was [[spoiler:Sapphire and Steel trapped inside a picture, possibly hinting at a connection to the Shape, the BigBad of Assignment 4]].
** In the originally scripted ending to Assignment 6, [[spoiler: Silver would have been [[SealedGoodInACan sealed in the cafe]] with the other two. If more episodes had been commissioned, he would have resolved the cliffhanger by building a device to break the three of them out.]] When it became clear that there would be no Assignment 7, this [[IncrediblyLamePun element]] of the storyline was
** Similarly, Hammond's original idea for the WhamShot at the end of the final episode was [[spoiler:Sapphire and Steel trapped inside a picture, possibly hinting at a connection to the Shape, the BigBad of Assignment 4]].
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* FollowTheLeader: Much like ''Series/TheTomorrowPeople1973'', this was Creator/{{ITV}}'s answer to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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* ActorAllusion: In Assignment 5, the radio voice that provides the first hint that there's something wrong is played by Valentine Dyall, famed radio HorrorHost.
* {{Improv}}: According to David Collings (Silver), Silver and Sapphire's conversation about the slot machine, in Assignment 6, was improvised when the episode was under-running. Joanna Lumley hadn't been told what he was up to; her lines were completely ad-libbed. http://www.kaldorcity.com/people/dcinterview.html
* {{Improv}}: According to David Collings (Silver), Silver and Sapphire's conversation about the slot machine, in Assignment 6, was improvised when the episode was under-running. Joanna Lumley hadn't been told what he was up to; her lines were completely ad-libbed. http://www.kaldorcity.com/people/dcinterview.html
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show got badly screwed as a result of the regional ITV franchise changing hands from ATV to Central. "Assignment Six" had its transmission delayed as a result, and the issues of the ''TV Times'' for those weeks wrongly showed the transmission as a repeat (whether this was deliberate sabotage or due to a miscommunication related to the network instability remains a mystery).
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show got badly screwed as a result of the regional ITV Creator/{{ITV}} franchise changing hands from ATV to Central. "Assignment Six" had its transmission delayed as a result, and the issues of the ''TV Times'' for those weeks wrongly showed the transmission as a repeat (whether this was deliberate sabotage or due to a miscommunication related to the network instability remains a mystery).
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* OldShame: Hammond has agreed with general fan opinion that "Assignment Three" isn't very good, believing retrospectively that he let his enthusiasm for creating a GreenAesop overtake the basics of writing the story.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Mark Gatiss as Gold.
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* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: The show was initially commissioned as a children's fantasy series, but when Hammond's scripts turned out to be significantly scarier than would be acceptable for that, the network rethought the idea instead of demanding rewrites. "Assignment One" still shows some signs of the original intended audience, with the child [=PoV=] characters, use of nursery rhymes as plot points, and rather whimsical kids'-TV-host characterisation of Lead. However, "Assignment Two" clearly indicates the shift, with its even more frightening atmosphere, adult subject matter related to war and sexual relationships, and very grim ending.
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* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: The show was initially commissioned as a children's fantasy series, but when Hammond's scripts turned out to be significantly scarier than would be acceptable for that, the network rethought the idea instead of demanding rewrites. "Assignment One" still shows some signs of the original intended audience, with the child [=PoV=] characters, use of nursery rhymes as plot points, and rather whimsical kids'-TV-host characterisation of Lead.Lead, and probably the show's most uncomplicatedly happy ending. However, "Assignment Two" clearly indicates the shift, with its even more frightening atmosphere, adult subject matter related to war and sexual relationships, and very grim ending.
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* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: The show was initially commissioned as a children's fantasy series, but when Hammond's scripts turned out to be significantly scarier than would be acceptable for that, the network rethought the idea instead of demanding rewrites. "Assignment One" still shows some signs of the original intended audience, with the child [=PoV=] characters, use of nursery rhymes as plot points, and rather whimsical kids'-TV-host characterisation of Lead. However, "Assignment Two" clearly indicates the shift, with its even more frightening atmosphere, adult subject matter related to war and sexual relationships, and very grim ending.
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* ActorAllusion: In Assignment 5, the radio voice that provides the first hint that there's something wrong is played by Valentine Dyall, famed radio HorrorHost.
* ActorAllusion: In Assignment 5, the radio voice that provides the first hint that there's something wrong is played by Valentine Dyall, famed radio HorrorHost.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show got badly screwed as a result of the regional ITV franchise changing hands from ATV to Central. "Assignment Six" had its transmission delayed as a result, and the issues of the ''TV Times'' for those weeks wrongly showed the transmission as a repeat (whether this was deliberate sabotage or due to a miscommunication related to the network instability remains a mystery).
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* {{Improv}}: According to David Collins (Silver), Silver and Sapphire's conversation about the slot machine, in Assignment 6, was improvised when the episode was under-running.
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* {{Improv}}: According to David Collins Collings (Silver), Silver and Sapphire's conversation about the slot machine, in Assignment 6, was improvised when the episode was under-running.under-running. Joanna Lumley hadn't been told what he was up to; her lines were completely ad-libbed. http://www.kaldorcity.com/people/dcinterview.html
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* {{Improv}}: According to David Collins (Silver), Silver and Sapphire's conversation about the slot machine, in Assignment 6, was improvised when the episode was under-running.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the originally scripted ending to Assignment 6, [[spoiler: Silver would have been [[SealedGoodInACan sealed in the cafe]] with the other two. If more episodes had been commissioned, he would have resolved the cliffhanger by building a device to break the three of them out.]] When it became clear that there would be no Assignment 7, this [[IncrediblyLamePun element]] of the storyline was removed.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the originally scripted ending to Assignment 6, [[spoiler: Silver would have been [[SealedGoodInACan sealed in the cafe]] with the other two. If more episodes had been commissioned, he would have resolved the cliffhanger by building a device to break the three of them out.]] When it became clear that there would be no Assignment 7, this [[IncrediblyLamePun element]] of the storyline was removed.removed.
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* ShrugOfGod: Hammond has said in interviews that he knows nothing about who and what Sapphire and Steel, their colleagues and their opponents really are beyond what was in the stories.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the originally scripted ending to Assignment 6, [[spoiler: Silver would have been [[SealedGoodInACan sealed in the cafe]] with the other two. If more episodes had been commissioned, he would have resolved the cliffhanger by building a device to break the three of them out.]] When it became clear that there would be no Assignment 7, this [[IncrediblyLamePun element]] of the storyline was removed.
