Anthony Clive Barwick (10 July 1934 – 18 August 1993) was a

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television

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who worked extensively on series created and produced by

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Career

Television

Barwick scripted episodes for

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series '' Thunderbirds'' (two out of 32 episodes), ''

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'', often shortened to ''Captain Scarlet'', is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry Anderson, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company AP Films#Century 21, Centu ...

'' (21 out of 32 episodes), ''

Joe 90 ''Joe 90'' is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company, Century 21, for ITC Entertainment. It follows the exploits of nine-year-old schoolboy Joe McClaine, who ...

'' (16 out of 30 episodes) and '' The Secret Service'' (four out of 13 episodes), as well as his live-action series '' UFO'' (14 out of 26 episodes), '' The Protectors'' (ten out of 52 episodes) and '' Space: 1999'' (two out of 48 episodes). He also contributed scripts to Anderson's and Christopher Burr's Supermacromation series ''

Terrahawks ''Terrahawks'' is a 1980s British science fiction television series created by Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr for London Weekend Television. The series was Anderson's first in over a decade to use puppets for its characters, and also his ...

'', writing under various pseudonyms for all but one episode. All of these pseudonyms ended with the suffix "-stein" in imitation of the name of the leading character, Dr Tiger Ninestein. Barwick wrote 35 of the 39 episodes of ''Terrahawks''; "The Midas Touch", which he co-wrote with Trevor Lansdowne, is the only episode for which he used his real name. With the completion of ''Terrahawks'', Barwick went on to script the whole of Anderson's two-part stop-motion series '' Dick Spanner, P.I.'' (for which he was credited as "Harry Bolt"). In addition to his work as scriptwriter, Barwick also served as

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for ''Captain Scarlet'', ''Joe 90'' and ''UFO''. His other writing credits include ''

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'', '' The Pathfinders'', '' The Professionals'' and ''Shadowchaser''.

Other work

Anderson and Barwick collaborated on other projects, one of which was a script treatment – ultimately rejected – for the

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film '' Moonraker''. The similarities between this script and the 1979 film are limited to their shared title, with the plot of the completed film incorporating none of Barwick and Anderson's ideas.

Personal life

Barwick continued to work as a scriptwriter until his death of cancer in August 1993, aged 59.

References

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* * 1934 births 1993 deaths 20th-century British novelists 20th-century British screenwriters British male television writers British science fiction writers Deaths from cancer in England {{UK-tv-bio-stub