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Andrew Pixley
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In case anyone's interested ... one of Philip Levene's radio thrillers was repeated the other day and is now available iPlayer until the end of the month:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jxmr
All the best
Andrew
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Rodders
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It was while Brian Clemens was listening to one of these that he had the idea of bringing the writer on board. Thank goodness he did!
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Andrew Pixley
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| Rodders wrote: | | It was while Brian Clemens was listening to one of these that he had the idea of bringing the writer on board. Thank goodness he did! |
I've always assumed that this was an edition of "Just Before Midnight" which Brian got to hear. Possibly "The Invader" (14 April 1964). Very fond of many of Philip Levene's scripts for "The Avengers" (even if they get a tad samey in the first colour run). "The Firechasers" is a rather enjoyable pilot as well.
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mousemeat
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| Andrew Pixley wrote: | | Rodders wrote: | | It was while Brian Clemens was listening to one of these that he had the idea of bringing the writer on board. Thank goodness he did! |
I've always assumed that this was an edition of "Just Before Midnight" which Brian got to hear. Possibly "The Invader" (14 April 1964). Very fond of many of Philip Levene's scripts for "The Avengers" (even if they get a tad samey in the first colour run). "The Firechasers" is a rather enjoyable pilot as well.
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Rodders
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Sadly, Philip Levene had major health issues - even as a young man working on The Avengers. As Andrew says, his scripts in Season 5 did get a bit samey, but I felt that he was back to his best in Season 6 and it is a shame that he and Clemens fell out. So many of the series' visual highlights are his creations: the Cybernauts, the sight of the mind-swapped Avengers, the miniaturised Steed and Peel, the machine-gunning nanny. Glorious.
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