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Peter J. Hammond (born c. 1930s; sometimes credited as P. J. Hammond ) is a British television writer and novelist.

Career [ edit ]

Hammond's television career began in the 1960s, when he began by working on BBC police dramas such as Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars , on the latter of which he served as script editor for a year from 1969 to 1970. In 1970 he also wrote for the fantasy series Ace of Wands , and later in the decade contributed to the soap opera Emmerdale Farm . He also continued to write for crime and police dramas, penning episodes of The Sweeney . He also created the offbeat 1984 sitcom Lame Ducks .

In the 1980s and 1990s, Hammond wrote for popular ITV police/detective shows The Gentle Touch , The Bill and Wycliffe , as well as for Doctor Finlay , the new production of the 1960s BBC series Dr. Finlay's Casebook . He returned to the science fiction genre by writing an episode of the 1998 Sky One series Space Island One , although his episode was ultimately one of those that went untransmitted until 2002.

Work in the 2000s included many episodes of the popular murder mystery series Midsomer Murders .

Sapphire & Steel [ edit ]

P.J. Hammond is best known for the creation of the science-fiction fantasy series Sapphire & Steel , [1] produced by ATV and screened on the ITV network in the UK from 1979 to 1982. [2] Hammond, who had conceived the series after spending an evening in a supposedly haunted house, wrote five of the six serials that made up the programme, as well as a novelisation of the first serial.

Doctor Who and spin-offs [ edit ]

In 1986, Hammond was approached to write for Doctor Who , during the troubled production of Season 23 's The Trial of a Time Lord . His story, titled Paradise Five , was liked by then-script editor Eric Saward , but rejected by producer John Nathan-Turner while the script was still being worked on. The script was later revived in 2009?2010 by Big Finish Productions for a full cast audio drama, Paradise 5 , with the final script written by both Hammond and new material by Andy Lane , starring the Sixth Doctor ( Colin Baker ) and his companion Peri Brown ( Nicola Bryant ). [3] Paradise 5 was one of eight stories made as part of the first " Lost Stories " season featuring several commissioned, but never filmed, scripts. [4]

In October 2005, it was announced by the BBC Press Office that Hammond would be one of the writers of the new science fiction crime series Torchwood , a spin-off from the popular BBC One show Doctor Who . His episode, " Small Worlds ", was shown on 12 November 2006, directly opposite one of his Midsomer Murders scripts, "Dance with the Dead", on ITV1 . [ citation needed ] He also wrote the episode " From Out of the Rain " for the second series of Torchwood , shown on BBC Three on 12 March 2008.

Novel [ edit ]

In 2018 Hammond released his first novel, Downtimers. [5]

Writing credits [ edit ]

Production Notes Broadcaster
Thirty-Minute Theatre
  • "The Far-Way Incident" (1966)
BBC2
Ramshackle Road
  • Television film (1968)
BBC1
Adventure Weekly
  • "Explosion" (1969)
BBC1
Z-Cars
  • 33 episodes (1969?1975, 1978)
BBC1
Manhunt
  • "Machine" (1970)
ITV
Trial
  • "Peggy" (1971)
  • "On the Evidence You Will Hear" (1971)
BBC2
Six Days of Justice
  • "Open House" (1972)
ITV
Villains
  • "Chas" (1972)
ITV
The Hole in the Wall
  • 7 episodes (1972)
BBC1
Ace of Wands
  • 13 episodes (1972)
ITV
Hunter's Walk
  • "Behaviour" (1973)
  • "Discretion" (1973)
ITV
Crime of Passion
  • "Henri" (1973)
ITV
Armchair Theatre
  • "The Square Root of Three" (1973)
ITV
Oranges & Lemons
  • "A Funny Kind of Joke" (1973)
ITV
New Scotland Yard
  • "Pier" (1973)
  • "Comeback" (1974)
ITV
Spy Trap
  • "Salvage" (1973)
  • "A Nice Place to Live" (1975)
BBC1
Dixon of Dock Green
  • "Cat-Walk" (1974)
BBC1
Within These Walls
  • "Guessing Game" (1974)
  • "Playground" (1975)
  • "Windows" (1975)
  • "Vacuum" (1976)
  • "Raft" (1978)
ITV
Special Branch
  • "Diversion" (1974)
ITV
Dial M for Murder
  • "The Vineyard" (1974)
BBC1
Rooms
  • "Arthur and Rowena" (1975)
ITV
Angels
  • "Interim" (1975)
  • "Celebration" (1976)
  • "Signals" (1976)
  • "Values" (1978)
BBC1
Couples
  • 7 episodes (1976)
ITV
The Sweeney
  • "Pay Off" (1976)
ITV
The Professionals
  • "Heroes" (1978)
ITV
Crown Court
  • "Association: Part 1" (1978)
  • "Code: Part 1" (1978)
ITV
Shadows
  • "And Now for My Next Trick..." (1978)
ITV
Target
  • "The Run" (1978)
BBC1
Hazell
  • "Hazell and Hyde" (1979)
ITV
Sapphire & Steel
  • 34 episodes, 28 as writer, 6 as "creator" (1979?1982)
ITV
The Gentle Touch
  • 6 episodes (1982?1984)
ITV
Lame Ducks
  • 12 episodes (1984?1985)
BBC2
Unnatural Causes
  • "Lost Property" (1986)
ITV
Emmerdale Farm
  • "Episode #1.1261" (1988)
ITV
The Bill
  • 39 episodes (1988?1998, 2004)
ITV
EastEnders
  • "Episode #1.548" (1990)
BBC1
Perfect Scoundrels
  • "Party Games" (1992)
  • "Last of the Few" (1992)
ITV
Doctor Finlay
  • "Childsplay" (1994)
  • "Secrecy" (1994)
ITV
Dangerfield
  • "Tricks" (1996)
  • "Eden" (1996)
  • "Still Waters" (1996)
  • "Games" (1996)
BBC1
Wycliffe
  • "Strangers Home" (1997)
  • "Time Out" (1998)
ITV
Space Island One
  • "Lost Property" (1998)
Sky One
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
  • "The Lake of Darkness" (1999)
ITV
Midsomer Murders
  • "Dark Autumn" (2001)
  • "Death and Dreams" (2003)
  • "Bad Tidings" (2004)
  • "Things That Go Bump in the Night" (2004)
  • "Dead Letters" (2006)
  • "Dance with the Dead" (2006)
  • "Small Mercies" (2009)
  • "The Silent Land" (2010)
  • "Echoes of the Dead" (2011)
ITV
Torchwood BBC Three

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Rob Stanley (1993). "P. J. Hammond interview" . Archived from the original on 8 July 1997 . Retrieved 20 November 2018 .
  2. ^ Steve Phillips (1994). "Episode Guide" . Archived from the original on 8 July 1997 . Retrieved 20 November 2018 .
  3. ^ Galifrey One ? Big Finish Announces Details of Lost Season
  4. ^ Big Finish ? Lost Stories Titles Almost Announced
  5. ^ PJ Hammond - Downtimers

External links [ edit ]

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