Glyn Jones (2) (1931–2014)
Autor(a) de Doctor Who: The Space Museum
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Obras por Glyn Jones
The Double-Deckers: The Complete 1970 Television Series — Screenwriter — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Jones, Glyn Idris
- Data de nascimento
- 1931
- Data de falecimento
- 2014-04-02
- Sexo
- male
- País (no mapa)
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Durban, South Africa
- Local de falecimento
- Vamos, Crete
Membros
Críticas
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Membros
- 203
- Popularidade
- #108,639
- Avaliação
- 2.6
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 41
- Línguas
- 1
Here is the one and only book of the show, by script editor Glyn Jones, transforming to print two of the episodes that he wrote or co-wrote, first Barney, the 13th episode in broadcast order, and then Tiger Takes Off, the very first episode ever shown. It has lots of lovely colour photographs from the show, and is only 64 pages. The introduction has pictures of everyone including Albert as played by Melvyn Hayes.
The two episodes are rather odd choices, neither of them particularly plot-heavy even by Double Deckers standards; I wonder if it was just the two scripts Jones happened to have handy on a wet weekend in 1971 when he needed to write the book? It has to be admitted that Barney comes off rather better on the page than it does on the screen, with a bit more characterisation given to both Barney and the policeman (here named as PC Hastings). The core of Tiger Takes Off is the hovercraft chase, a long purely visual sequence which Jones wisely doesn't attempt to transfer to the page; most of the excellent dialogue is kept, and I can imagine kids reading this out loud to each other, each taking different parts.… (mais)