The Mystery of the Missing Hour

The Mystery of the Missing Hour
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	'Sapphire & Steel'
Release no.	2.6
Written by	Joseph Lidster
Directed by	Nigel Fairs
Produced by	Jason Haigh-Ellery Nigel Fairs
Length	120 mins

The Mystery of the Missing Hour is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the popular British science fiction television series Sapphire & Steel.

Plot

Sapphire and Steel arrive in Cairo, 1926 to solve an impossible murder...

Cast

Steel — David Warner
Sapphire — Susannah Harker
Narrator — Colin Baker
Lady Marjorie — Sarah Douglas
Arthur — Ian Hallard
Jane — Cate Debenham Taylor
Cornelius — Ian Brooker
MC — Nigel Fairs

Notes

In the Sapphire and Steel timeline, this story takes place between Perfect Day and Second Sight.
At the beginning of the fourth episode, in a fourth wall breaking moment in which they play themselves, Cate Debenham Taylor says to Sarah Douglas, "I thought I recognised your name. Weren't you the baddie in Superman II? I used to love that film!" This refers to her role as the Kryptonian criminal Ursa in both the aforementioned film and its predecessor, Superman. Later, Douglas mentions Murder, She Wrote and the fact that Angela Lansbury's character Jessica Fletcher happened to come across a murder in every episode of the series. In real life, Douglas appeared in the Murder, She Wrote Season Two episode "Sing a Song of Murder" in 1985.