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A Creative Art
Brian Clemens is a screenwriter and television producer, possibly best known for his work on The Avengers and The Professionals. (He is related to Mark Twain, incidentally).
Starting his career as a young junior at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, and subsequently a copywriter, he had a thriller screenplay accepted and shot by BBC TV - Valid for Single Journey Only (1955). This brought him to the attention of independent, low-budget movie producers the Danziger brothers. From the mid-1950s onwards, he was a staff writer for the Danzigers, churning out dozens of quickie scripts for assembly-line 'B' movies and half-hour television series such as Mark Saber, White Hunter, Man From Interpol and Richard The Lionheart. However, he also wrote for ITC's thriller series The Invisible Man, Sir Francis Drake and Danger Man.
He wrote the original pilot episode for The Avengers in 1961 and was later the script editor, associate producer and main scriptwriter for The Avengers thru’ 1969. He also wrote for tv series Adam Adamant Lives!, The Baron, The Persuaders!, The Protectors and The Adventurer - resoundingly poking fun both at the genre they were imitating and the sources of their inspiration .
In 1972, he created and produced a BBC TV sitcom, My Wife Next Door, which won a BAFTA Award He followed this with a twist-in-the-tail anthology series Thriller, then his company The Avengers (Film and TV) Enterprises Ltd created a French/Canadian/British co-production The New Avengers. The series cost …… £125,000 an episode to produce. He then went on to produce The Professionals (ITV, 1977-1983).
In the early 1980s, he wrote episodes for the US TV series Darkroom, Remington Steele, and Max Monroe: Loose Cannon. Back in the UK, he worked on the BBC TV's Bergerac, the anthologies Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense and Worlds Beyond. He then, in the US again, worked on the Father Dowling Mysteries and as executive script consultant for the feature-length revival series of Raymond Burr's Perry Mason for which he also wrote three screenplays. And he also wrote for the Dick Van Dyke mystery series Diagnosis: Murder along with writing for the Bugs TV series in the UK (BBC, 1995-1999) and Highlander: The Series in the US.
In 1971 he wrote and produced for Hammer films Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and, in 1974, wrote and directed Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter. He also wrote the screenplays and/or stories for the feature films Operation Murder (1957), Station Six Sahara (1963), The Peking Medallion (1967), And Soon The Darkness (1970), See No Evil (1971), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).
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