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Brian Clemens

BRIAN CLEMENS

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  represented by Julia Wyatt

Brian created and wrote the classic series THE AVENGERS, THRILLER and THE PROFESSIONALS. His film credits include the Hammer Horror classics DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE and CAPTAIN KRONOS-VAMPIRE HUNTER (both of which he produced and the latter of which he also directed).

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         All About Murder         Anybody For Murder?         Avengers, The         Dear Heart         Devil At Midnight, The         Edge Of Darkness         I'm Only Going To Kill Her         Inside Job         Lover         Murder Weapon         Our Kid         Sherlock Holmes and The Ripper Murders         Shock!         Sting In the Tale         Strictly Murder         Will You Still Love Me In the Morning?         Without Trace

All About Murder

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1st Produced:
Michael Codron Productions    1982

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Genre:
Thriller

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Anybody For Murder?

Synopsis:
Max and his lover Suzy have concocted a plot to kill Max's wife Janet, with ten thousand pounds insurance money as an added bonus. their plan is for Janet to have a sailing 'accident'. then two unexpected visitors arrive, in the shape of George and Mary Tickle well, who have an eye on the money, with murder plans of their own. Thus begins an intriguing round of plot and counter-plot, with a final, unexpected twist.

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written with Dennis Spooner

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Samuel French, London, 1990   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Avengers, The

Synopsis:
the avengers TV Show on stage

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Written in collaboration with Terence Feely

1st Produced:
Prince Of Wales, London    1971

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Dear Heart

Synopsis:
about a homosexual relationship, loosely based upon the Joe Orton story

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Written in collaboration with Terence Feely

1st Produced:
Mountview, London    1973

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Devil At Midnight, The

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Samuel French, London,    -

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Edge Of Darkness

Synopsis:
Period 1900, after her disappearance Emma finds her memory is damaged, what are these Russian phrases ?

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1st Produced:
-    1975

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1978   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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I'm Only Going To Kill Her

Synopsis:
a comedy with a lot of dead bodies

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written with Dennis Spooner

1st Produced:
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Genre:
Comedy

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Inside Job

Synopsis:
criminals, escaping extradition on the Costa del Sol, engage in usual skulduggery

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1993   -

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lover

Synopsis:
about a model being terrorised by anonymous phone calls

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1st Produced:
St Martin's Theatre, London    1972

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Genre:
Thriller

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Murder Weapon

Murder Weapon
When Chief Constable Bligh accompanies her friend Diane Tulliver home to Dysart Hall after a night at the opera they arrive to a horrifying scene. Dianes husband Paul has been shot dead and ex-convict Charley Mirren is standing over him bearing a gun. It appears to be an open-and-shut case for Jessica Bligh, but as she and her colleague Inspector Fremont probe further they discover all is not what it seems. Through a series of flashbacks and re-enactments of the events leading up to Pauls death, we soon find it is not just the murderers identity that is in question.

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Genre:
mystery thriller

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Our Kid

Synopsis:
Based upon the Moors Murders and Myra Hindley

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Genre:
Play/Drama One act

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Sherlock Holmes and The Ripper Murders

Synopsis:
The grisly serial killings of prostitutes and vulnerable women in Victorian Whitechapel, dubbed by the popular press as the work of 'Jack the Ripper' are the talk of London, and from deep within the smog-ridden slums, yet another piercing shriek is heard. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H Watson are drawn into one of the darkest plots ever to shake the foundations of England. There are freemasons, conspiracies and plots at the highest level of the establishment. But for Holmes, there is a uniquely personal element to this new and terrifying case.

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1st Produced:
Darlington: Civic Theatre    07 Jul 2015

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Genre:
murder mystery

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Shock!

Synopsis:
tape recording private intimacies brings murders and disappearance to air hostess in her converted windmill

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1st Produced:
York/Triumph Prods    1972

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1979   -

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sting In the Tale

Synopsis:
fiction becomes reality as two crime writing playwrights endeavour to complete b block-buster to pay off their mounting debts

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written with Dennis Spooner

1st Produced:
-    1986

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Samuel French, London, 1986   -

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Strictly Murder

Synopsis:
April 1939. an english couple, Peter and Suzy, are living in Provence in idyllic isolation, far, it seems, from the rumblings of the coming war. their peace is shattered from within when Suzy discovers she has been betrayed: Peter is not the man he claims to be. Suzy's life is thrown into turmoil as the possibility arises that Peter may in fact be a ruthless killer on the run. then a Scotland Yard detective arrives and events become even more complicated and frightening . . .Lies, subterfuge and murder make this fast-moving thriller a dark and disturbing rollercoaster of bluff and double bluff.

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Genre:
Thriller

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Will You Still Love Me In the Morning?

Synopsis:
returning early from honeymoon couple find that in order to impress they must stage two dinner parties simultaneously

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written with Dennis Spooner

1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1992   -

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Genre:
Sex Comedy Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Without Trace

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Samuel French, London, 2005   -

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