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Post by nucleusofswarm on Oct 5, 2018 23:59:26 GMT
To follow on from the 'actor' thread a while back, what other work have you seen or read from Who's luminaries? RTD's Queer As Folk, Shearman's books, maybe even old Syd's Adam Adamant Lives.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 18:05:50 GMT
Easy one: Terry Nation - Blake's 7 (and Survivors.)
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Post by escalus5 on Oct 6, 2018 20:33:26 GMT
INVASION, the only feature film in which Robert Holmes receives a writing credit. Weird, creepy, low-budget gem.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 23:00:05 GMT
My favourite non-Who by a classic series writer? EASILY Philip Martin's Gangsters. It was incredibly ahead of it's time and terrifically bold. Just....get it watched.
Some notables:
Yesterday's Enemy by Peter Newman of The Sensorites. It's a wonderful Hammer war film. It's the only thing he ever had commisioned outside of that Who story and Toby Hadoke made a lovely documentary about the enigma that is Newman.
Dennis Spooner wrote some of the best Gerry Anderson Supermarionation stories and the wonderful "And the Wall Came Tumbling Down" from Hammer House Of Horror And Suspense.
Bob Holmes doesn't get the credit he deserves for some of his non-Who work. The Nightmare Man in particular is a cult classic in waiting.
Don Houghton (Inferno, Mind Of Evil) wrote some of my favourite - but quite odd - Hammers of the 70s - Dracula AD 1972, The Satanic Rites Of Dracula and The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires.
Robert Banks Stewart wrote the wonderful Scottish sitcom Charles EndellEsquire, the spinoff from Shostring. For a man who only wrote two Who stories, for those two to be Seeds Of Doom and Terror Of The Zygons it baffles me he's not lauded more.
Chris Boucher,of course, with B7 and Star Cops.
David Fisher wrote some lovely Hammer tv eps for both House Of Horror and House Of Mystery And Suspense.
Johnny Byrne wrote the adaptation for the film of Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall which is quite wonderful though a lot of the dialogue is pure Spike.
It's tradition to mock Pip n Jane but I love their Night Of The Big Heat script. Their Captain Nemo film was pretty good too. Robert Ryan was miscast but they did spectacle and adventure well.
Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers Of London books are just stunning. Loads here would dig them. Andrew Cartmel has written a few books worth reading too.
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Post by shutupbanks on Oct 6, 2018 23:35:02 GMT
Blakes 7 is my obvious choice: it's the only show I love more than Doctor Who.
Steven Moffat's Coupling, which has recently overtaken Fawlty Towers as my favourite sitcom.
Good Omens (Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman), despite only being co-written by a Who writer.
Richard Curtis' The Tall Guy, a much ruder and funnier film than his rep would have you believe.
Simon Nye's Men Behaving Badly.
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, which I really only enjoy in in its tv incarnation.
Henry Lincoln (co-author of Abominable Snowmen, Web Of Fear (therefore the co-creator of the Brigadier) and The Dominators) was the co-author of The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail which gave me a kickstart into the world of conspiracy theories nearly thirty years ago.
Any number of novels and shows by Stephen Gallagher.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 2:37:38 GMT
A lot of great ones have been mentioned already, so... From the comics, we have Alan Moore and Watchmen.  That and Morris Farhi's two episodes for Return of the Saint, it set the standard for each feeling like a 50-min film that Thunderbirds and RTD era Who did so well. Terry Nation's episode for The Avengers is rather nice too. Eschewing the eccentricity of its era for a raw thriller. Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke also wrote a very nice script exploring what happens when two spies from opposing blocs come together with the same objective. Malcolm Hulke's Danger Man script explores similar territory in the context of Ralph Smart's world. Bob Holmes, John Lucarotti and the Bristol Boys' entries for Into the Labyrinth tend to be a highlight. Lots of fun. Pamela Salem is having a ball playing the evil Belor. |
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Post by shutupbanks on Oct 7, 2018 4:08:31 GMT
Wolfie's reminded me of another of Bob Baker's creations: Wallace and Gromit! He loves his anthropomorphic dogs, does Mr Baker.
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