Donald James

Donald James
For other people of the same name, see Don James (disambiguation).
Donald James
Born 1931-08-22
Died 2008-04-28
Occupation Television screenwriter
and author

Donald James (aka Donald James Wheal, 1931 to 2008[1] ) was the author of the bestselling novels Vadim, Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and The Fall of the Russian Empire as well as non-fiction books such as The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, notably Thomas Dresden and James Barwick (originally in collaboration with writer Tony Barwick). He also had an extensive career as a scriptwriter on shows such as The Avengers, Space: 1999, "Joe 90" The Champions, "The Secret Service" The Persuaders!, The Saint, Department S, UFO, The Protectors, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Adventurer, "Terrahawks" and Mission: Impossible. After spending periods in Ireland and France, he lived in London, and his autobiographical account of life in World War II London, World's End, was published in 2005. A second volume of his memoirs, titled White City was published in March 2007.

References

  1. ^ Gaughan, Gavin (2008-07-24). "Obituary: Donald James Wheal - Writer of 1960s TV scripts and Inspector Vadim novels". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/24/television.television?gusrc=rss&feed=books. Retrieved 2009-02-04. 

External links

Donald James at the Internet Movie Database

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Episodes
  • "Breakaway"
  • "Matter of Life and Death"
  • "Black Sun"
  • "Ring Around the Moon"
  • "Earthbound"
  • "Another Time, Another Place"
  • "Missing Link"
  • "Guardian of Piri"
  • "Force of Life"
  • "Alpha Child"
  • "The Last Sunset"
  • "Voyager's Return"
  • "Collision Course"
  • "Death's Other Dominion"
  • "The Full Circle"
  • "End of Eternity"
  • "War Games"
  • "The Last Enemy"
  • "The Troubled Spirit"
  • "Space Brain"
  • "The Infernal Machine"
  • "Mission of the Darians"
  • "Dragon's Domain"
  • "The Testament of Arkadia"
  • "The Metamorph"
  • "The Exiles"
  • "One Moment of Humanity"
  • "All That Glisters"
  • "Journey to Where"
  • "The Taybor"
  • "The Rules of Luton"
  • "The Mark of Archanon"
  • "Brian the Brain"
  • "New Adam, New Eve"
  • "Catacombs of the Moon"
  • "The AB Chrysalis"
  • "Seed of Destruction"
  • "The Beta Cloud"
  • "Space Warp"
  • "A Matter of Balance"
  • The Bringers of Wonder, Part One
  • Part Two
  • "The Lambda Factor"
  • "The Seance Spectre"
  • "Dorzak"
  • "Devil's Planet"
  • "The Immunity Syndrome"
  • "The Dorcons"
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