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Occupation
  
screenwriter

Name
  
Philip Martin

Role
  
Television screenwriter


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Born
  
1938 (age 76–77)
Liverpool, England

Movies
  
Towncraft, Bloodlines, The Girls of Belarus

Awards
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special

Books
  
Mission to Magnus, The New Rural Poverty, Mindwarp, El camino del Zen para venc, Bordering on control

Similar People
  
Christopher H Bidmead, Eric Saward, Terrance Dicks, Peter Duignan, James Follett

Philip Martin (born 1938 in Liverpool) is an English television screenwriter.

His early work included regular series such as Z-Cars in the late 1960s/early 1970s, but his most famous work is the postmodern television series Gangsters. This was an examination of race seen through an increasingly surreal vision of Birmingham's criminal underworld. Beginning as an acclaimed one-off edition of Play for Today in 1975, it was followed by two series of 6 episodes each in 1976 and 1978. Martin appeared in the series in several roles, including as himself.

His later work includes Tandoori Nights (1985), Star Cops (1987), Virtual Murder (1992), several episodes of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Luifel & Luifel (2001).

He wrote the Doctor Who serials Vengeance on Varos (1985) and The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp (1986). He also wrote a script called Mission to Magnus which featured the character Sil from his televised serial. That script was never filmed when the show was put on hiatus in 1985. A novelised version of the script written by Martin was released by Target Books in 1990, and a Big Finish audio drama based on the serial was released in December 2009. He also wrote a Doctor Who gamebook called Invasion of the Ormazoids (1986) as part of the Make your own adventure with Doctor Who range. His most recent contribution to the series were The Creed of the Kromon (2004) and Antidote to Oblivion (2013), another Big Finish audio releases.Now he writes scripts for YouTube channels called "Rose Ellen Dix", "TheRoxetera" and "Let's Play Games".

References

Philip Martin (screenwriter) Wikipedia