Alan Whiting is a British

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who has written for ''

Wire in the Blood ''Wire in the Blood'' is a British crime drama television series, created and produced by Coastal Productions for Tyne Tees Television and broadcast on ITV from 14 November 2002 to 31 October 2008. The series is based on characters created by ...

'' and ''

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'' (which he also co-created).

Career

Whiting's career began in the mid 1960s, contributing episodes to '' The Newcomers'', a BBC

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which dealt with a

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family, the Coopers, who moved to a housing estate in the fictional country town of Angleton. Into the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote for multiple series, such as '' Heartbeat'', '' El C.I.D.'', ''

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'' and ''

See You Friday ''See You Friday'' is a British comedy-drama made by Yorkshire Television. It ran for one series on ITV from 9 May to 13 June 1997. It was written by Alan Whiting and directed by Simon Massey. Greg (Neil Pearson) and Lucy (Joanna Roth) mee ...

''. In the 2000s, Whiting wrote for the period swashbuckler ''

The Scarlet Pimpernel ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having ...

'' and ''

Steel River Blues ''Steel River Blues'' is a British television drama series, created by Patrick Harbinson, that was first broadcast in September 2004 on ITV. Produced by Ken Horn, the series follows the working and private lives of a group of firefighters, k ...

''. " The Darkness of Light", one of his ''Wire in the Blood'' episodes, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Television Feature Or Mini-Series Teleplay in 2005. He adapted '' Half Broken Things'' as a television movie for Festival Films and it was broadcast on ITV in 2007. He later wrote the historical miniseries '' Titanic: Blood and Steel'' and some episodes of the first series of '' Strike Back''.

References

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