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Episode 2 / Issue 47:1979
  ASSIGNMENT THREE

Issues 46-51:1979
6 episodes


Plot: Young Lee Rochester lives in a reclaimed coastal area with his mother and author father. One day he finds an old anchor which later spawns a vivid nightmare about the death of a Napoleonic naval officer. As Sapphire and Steel appear and search for a trigger, Lee is drawn back into Napoleonic times by the 'ghost' of the officer. Sapphire and Steel realise that's the officer's death is vital in the timeline - if the officer survives England would be conquered by the French within five years. Steel uses special powers to trap and freeze the time spectre and it is locked in the family fridge - the timely intervention of agent Lead sees off a troop of ghostly French soldiers, as he turns them into toy soldiers.

Comments: The appearance of fellow agent Lead is a pleasing and surprising element (aaah, do you see what I've done there?) of continuity, but although he appears as a powerfully-built African, the strip version is not based upon the actor who appeared in TV's Assignment One.