Series creator Peter J. Hammond received proofs of these stories before publication, but he apparently did not make any objections to them even though he acknowledged in an interview that he had reservations with Sapphire and Steel being able to move back in time and in having Time break through anywhere other than "present day". He remarks that the contradictions from the TV series did not worry him overmuch as these stories were geared toward younger readers. See the interview with Hammond preserved at the Internet Archive. Frankly, I wish he had been a bit more stringent!
See also, the studies of the "official" Sapphire & Steel chronology of TV Episodes, Comic Strips, & Short Stories and the Audio Dramas
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| "Disappearing Act" | "Evil Feline" | "The Meeting Place" | "Life Force" | "The Great Fire of London" | ||||||||||
| Look-In (1979) #52 - (1980) #3 | Look-In (1980) #4-6 | Look-In (1980) #7-11 | Look-In (1980) #12-14 | Look-In (1980) #15-19 | ||||||||||
| When a man actually disappears during a magic act, he is replaced by an evil Egyptian god. | A girl has an imaginary pet cat, who becomes real... | A wartime officer is brought back from the past by a military badge and Sapphire and Steel must prevent him from bringing a deadly weapon into the future. | Sapphire and Steel arrive too late to stop a train plummeting off a bridge, but can they still alter time to save the life of a young girl? | When Sapphire and Steel travel back in time to help a boy, they find themselves in the middle of the Great Fire of London. | ||||||||||
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| "The Spirit of Cawdroc" | "The Mask" | "The Sorcerer" | "Fairyland" | "The Pied Piper" | ||||||||||
| Look-In (1980) #33-37 | Look-In (1980) #45-49 | Look-In (1980) #50 - (1981) #4 | Look-In (1981) #5-13 | Look-In (1981) #14-17 | ||||||||||
| A dog falls into a cavern, and when the boy who owns him tries to rescue the animal, he awakens an evil spirit. | A man is taken back in time to darkest Africa, where he is to retrace the steps of one of his ancestors. | A sorcerer snatches two children, and plans to use them to make London a "devil's domain". | Whilst on a ferry trip, two children find and play a set of pan pipes, and are whisked to a land of elves, dwarves, and fairies. | The pied piper, now an evil time agent, uses the music of a famous pop group to lure children into oblivion. | ||||||||||
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| Look-In Television Annual 1981 | Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981 | |||||||||||||
| A model of an old naval vessel and a bosun's call send a young boy back to a sea battle in the 18th Century. | The testing of a robot with a new secret military application goes terribly wrong. | |||||||||||||
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