Dennis Spooner, the Glossary

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1. 97 relations: American Broadcasting Company, Anthology series, Associated Television, BBC, BBC One, Bergerac (TV series), Bootsie and Snudge, Brian Clemens, Children's television series, Comedy Playhouse, Comedy Premiere, Conscription in the United Kingdom, Coronation Street, Cry Wolf (Thunderbirds), Dalek, David Whitaker (screenwriter), Day of Disaster, Department S (TV series), Destruction (UFO), Doctor Who, Doctor Who season 2, Donald Tosh, Doomwatch, Dramarama (TV series), End of the Road (Thunderbirds), Fireball XL5, First Doctor, Foreign Affairs (1964 TV series), Freelancer, Gerry Anderson, Ghost Squad (TV series), Girl on the Trapeze, Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, Harry Worth (actor, born 1917), Hertfordshire, ITC Entertainment, ITV (TV network), Jason King (TV series), Jeff Melvoin, Lew Grade, Leyton Orient F.C., Man in a Suitcase, Mary Celeste, Middlesex, Monty Berman, Myocardial infarction, NBC, No Hiding Place, Pardon the Expression, Paul Temple (TV series), ... Expand index (47 more) »

2. Bridge players from London
3. English contract bridge players
4. English spy fiction writers
5. Writers from the London Borough of Haringey

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Anthology series

An anthology series is a written series, radio, television, film, or video game series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short.

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Associated Television

Associated Television was the original name of the British broadcaster ATV, part of the Independent Television (ITV) network.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bergerac (TV series)

Bergerac is a British crime drama television series.

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Bootsie and Snudge

Bootsie and Snudge is a British sitcom that aired on ITV for three series from 1960 to 1963, with a fourth in 1974.

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Brian Clemens

Brian Horace Clemens (30 July 1931 – 10 January 2015) was an English screenwriter and television producer. Dennis Spooner and Brian Clemens are English male screenwriters.

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Children's television series

Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television programs designed specifically for children.

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Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975.

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Comedy Premiere

Comedy Premiere was a British television comedy series which aired in 1975.

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Conscription in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times.

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Coronation Street

Coronation Street (colloquially referred to as Corrie) is a British television soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.

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Cry Wolf (Thunderbirds)

"Cry Wolf" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films for ITC Entertainment.

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Dalek

The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of extremely xenophobic mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

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David Whitaker (screenwriter)

David Arthur Whitaker (18 April 1928 – 4 February 1980) was an English television writer and novelist who worked on the early years of the science-fiction TV series Doctor Who. Dennis Spooner and David Whitaker (screenwriter) are 20th-century English screenwriters, BBC people, English science fiction writers and English television writers.

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Day of Disaster

"Day of Disaster" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (later Century 21 Productions) for ITC Entertainment.

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Department S (TV series)

Department S is a British spy-fi adventure series, produced by ITC Entertainment.

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Destruction (UFO)

"Destruction" is the ninth episode aired of the first series of UFO - a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Doctor Who season 2

The second season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who was originally broadcast on BBC1 between 1964 and 1965.

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Donald Tosh

Donald Tosh (16 March 1935 – 3 December 2019) was a BBC screenwriter who contributed to Doctor Who in 1965. Dennis Spooner and Donald Tosh are British male television writers.

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Doomwatch

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC1 between 1970 and 1972.

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Dramarama (TV series)

Dramarama is a British children's anthology series broadcast on ITV between 1983 and 1989.

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End of the Road (Thunderbirds)

"End of the Road" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (later Century 21 Productions) for ITC Entertainment.

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Fireball XL5

Fireball XL5 is a 1960s British children's science-fiction puppet television series about the missions of Fireball XL5, a vessel of the World Space Patrol that polices the cosmos in the year 2062.

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First Doctor

The First Doctor is the original incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Foreign Affairs (1964 TV series)

Foreign Affairs is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1964.

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Freelancer

Freelance (sometimes spelled free-lance or free lance), freelancer, or freelance worker, are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term.

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Gerry Anderson

Gerald Alexander Anderson (14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist, who is known for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts). Dennis Spooner and Gerry Anderson are English male screenwriters and English television writers.

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Ghost Squad (TV series)

Ghost Squad, known as G.S.5 for its third series, was a crime drama series that ran between 1961 and 1964, about an elite division of Scotland Yard.

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Girl on the Trapeze

"Girl on the Trapeze" is the sixth episode of the first series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Ingrid Hafner, and guest starring Mia Karam, Howard Goorney, and Kenneth J. Warren.

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Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, aired in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater, is a British mystery anthology television series produced in Britain in 1984 by Hammer Film Productions.

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Harry Worth (actor, born 1917)

Harry Bourlon Illingsworth (20 November 1917 – 20 July 1989), professionally known as Harry Worth, was an English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (or; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties.

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ITC Entertainment

The Incorporated Television Company (ITC), or ITC Entertainment as it was referred to in the United States, was a British company involved in production and distribution of television programmes.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Jason King (TV series)

Jason King is a British television series starring Peter Wyngarde as the eponymous character.

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Jeff Melvoin

Jeff Melvoin is an American television writer, producer, and educator.

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Lew Grade

Lew Grade, Baron Grade, (born Lev Winogradsky; 25 December 1906 – 13 December 1998) was a Russian-born British media proprietor and impresario. Dennis Spooner and Lew Grade are ITV people.

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Leyton Orient F.C.

Leyton Orient Football Club is a professional association football club based in Leyton, Waltham Forest, Greater London, England.

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Man in a Suitcase

Man in a Suitcase is a British television private eye thriller series produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

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Mary Celeste

Mary Celeste (often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste) was a Canadian-built, American-registered merchant brigantine that was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azorean islands on December 4, 1872.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England.

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Monty Berman

Nestor Montague "Monty" Berman (16 August 1913 in Whitechapel, London, England – 14 June 2006 in London, England) was a British cinematographer and film and television producer.

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Myocardial infarction

A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967.

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Pardon the Expression

Pardon The Expression was an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966.

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Paul Temple (TV series)

Paul Temple is a British-German television series which originally aired on BBC1 between 1969 and 1971.

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Prime time

Prime-time, or peak-time, is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television shows.

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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000 TV series)

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British television series, produced by Working Title Television for BBC One, written and produced by Charlie Higson.

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Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk.

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Remington Steele

Remington Steele is an American television series co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason.

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Richard Harris (television writer)

Richard Harris (born 26 March 1934) is a British screenwriter and playwright, most active from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Screenwriter

A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.

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Script editor

A script editor is a member of the production team of scripted television and radio programmes, usually dramas and comedies.

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Second Doctor

The Second Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Space: 1999

Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television programme that ran for two series from 1975 to 1977.

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Spy fiction

Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device.

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Stand By for Action (Stingray)

"Stand By for Action" is the 25th episode of Stingray, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by their company AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment.

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Stayman convention

Stayman is a bidding convention in the card game contract bridge.

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Stingray (1964 TV series)

Stingray is a British children's science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment.

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Supercar (TV series)

Supercar is a British children's science fiction television series produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis' AP Films (APF) for Associated Television and ITC Entertainment.

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Supermarionation

Supermarionation (a portmanteau of the words "super", "marionette" and "animation")La Rivière 2009, p. 67.

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Supernatural

Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.

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Susan Foreman

Susan Foreman (also known as Susan Campbell in spin-off media) is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Sylvia Anderson

Sylvia Beatrice Anderson (25 March 1927 – 15 March 2016) was an English television and film producer, writer, voice actress and costume designer, best known for her collaborations with Gerry Anderson, her husband between 1960 and 1981. Dennis Spooner and Sylvia Anderson are English television writers.

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Tara King

Tara King is a fictional character of British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, played by Canadian actress Linda Thorson.

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Terry Nation

Terence Joseph Nation (8 August 19309 March 1997) was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. Dennis Spooner and Terry Nation are BBC people.

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The Adventurer (TV series)

The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment British TV crime thriller/adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one series from 1972 to 1973.

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The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is a British espionage television series, created in 1961, that ran for 161 episodes until 1969.

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The Baron (TV series)

The Baron is a British television series made in 1965 and 1966, based on the book series by John Creasey (written under the pseudonym Anthony Morton) and produced by ITC Entertainment.

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The Champions

The Champions is a British espionage thriller/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure television series.

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The Chase (Doctor Who)

The Chase is the eighth serial of the second season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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The Daleks' Master Plan

The Daleks' Master Plan is the fourth serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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The Impostors (Thunderbirds)

"The Impostors" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (later Century 21 Productions) for ITC Entertainment.

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The Mighty Atom (Thunderbirds)

"The Mighty Atom" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films for ITC Entertainment.

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The New Avengers (TV series)

The New Avengers is a secret agent action television series produced during 1976 and 1977.

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The Power of the Daleks

The Power of the Daleks is the completely missing third serial of the fourth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 5 November to 10 December 1966.

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The Professionals (TV series)

The Professionals is a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mark1 Productions for London Weekend Television (LWT) that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983.

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The Protectors

The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson.

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The Reign of Terror (Doctor Who)

The Reign of Terror is the eighth serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC1 in six weekly parts from 8 August to 12 September 1964.

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The Rescue (Doctor Who)

The Rescue is the third serial of the second season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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The Romans (Doctor Who)

The Romans is the fourth serial of the second season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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The Time Meddler

The Time Meddler is the ninth and final serial of the second season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Thriller (British TV series)

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976.

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Thunderbirds (TV series)

Thunderbirds is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) and distributed by ITC Entertainment.

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Time Lord

The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' main protagonist, the Doctor, is a member.

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Titan Goes Pop

"Titan Goes Pop" is an episode of Stingray, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment.

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Tony Hancock

Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.

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Tony Williamson

Tony Williamson (18 December 1932 in Manchester – 19 June 1991) was a prolific British television writer, most active from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Dennis Spooner and Tony Williamson are 20th-century English screenwriters and English television writers.

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Tottenham

Tottenham is a town in north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey.

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UFO (British TV series)

UFO is a 1970 British science fiction television series about the covert efforts of an international defence organisation (under the auspices of the United Nations) to prevent an alien invasion of Earth.

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Vault of Death (Thunderbirds)

"Vault of Death" is an episode of Thunderbirds, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films (APF; later Century 21 Productions) for ITC Entertainment.

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Verity Lambert

Verity Ann Lambert (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer.

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See also

Bridge players from London

• A. J. Sefi
• Adam Meredith
• Alan Truscott
• Albert Dormer
• Alfred Sheinwold
• Andrew Robson
• Dennis Spooner
• Doris Rhodes
• Fritzi Gordon
• Jack Marx (bridge)
• Jordanis Pavlides
• Kenneth Konstam
• Leslie Dodds
• Maurice Harrison-Gray
• Michelle Brunner
• Nico Gardener
• Nicola Smith
• Paul Stern
• Peter Lee (chess player)
• Rixi Markus
• Sandra Landy
• Susanna Gross
• Tom Townsend
• Tony Priday
• Victor Mollo
• Walter Buller (bridge)

English contract bridge players

• A. J. Sefi
• Adam Meredith
• Albert Dormer
• Andrew Robson
• Brian Senior
• David Bakhshi
• David Gold (bridge)
• Dennis Spooner
• Doris Rhodes
• Edward Rayne
• Fritzi Gordon
• Gunnar Hallberg
• Jack Marx (bridge)
• Janet Wolfson de Botton
• Jim Niblett
• John Brown (bridge)
• Jonathan Cansino
• Jordanis Pavlides
• Kenneth Konstam
• Leslie Dodds
• Maurice Harrison-Gray
• Michelle Brunner
• Mike Bell (bridge)
• Nico Gardener
• Nicola Smith
• Pat Davies (bridge player)
• Peter Lee (chess player)
• Rixi Markus
• Sally Brock
• Sandra Landy
• Sarah Bell (bridge)
• Susan Norton
• Susanna Gross
• Tom Townsend
• Tony Forrester
• Tony Priday
• Victor Mollo
• Walter Buller (bridge)

English spy fiction writers

• Adam Diment
• Alan Caillou
• Alexander Wilson (English writer)
• Aly Monroe
• Brian Freemantle
• Charles Cumming
• Clive Egleton
• David Farr (theatre director)
• Dennis Spooner
• Dorothea Bennett (novelist)
• Elleston Trevor
• Frederick Forsyth
• Gavin Lyall
• Geoffrey Archer (writer)
• Graham Greene
• Ian Fleming
• John Brunner (author)
• John Rossiter (novelist)
• John le Carré
• Kingsley Amis
• Louise Burfitt-Dons
• Luke Jennings
• Maureen Duffy
• Peter James (writer)
• Robert Wilton (author)
• Stella Rimington
• Ted Allbeury
• William Garner (novelist)
• William Haggard

Writers from the London Borough of Haringey

• Andrea Levy
• Ashley Hutchings
• Boris Johnson
• Dennis Spooner
• Eileen Atkins
• Frank Baker (writer)
• Maureen Lipman
• Maurice Burton
• Rodney Dale
• Rohan Candappa
• Rosemary Timperley
• Vivian Stanshall

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Spooner

Also known as Spooner, Dennis.

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