Screenplay: Dennis Spooner

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dennis Spooner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Thriller (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Hays · John Cooper · Peter Jefferies · Robert Tronson

Cast Barbara Feldon · Robert Powell · Linda Thorson · Mary Wimbush

Plot It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of...

7.2

95 votes

7.2

95 votes

Doctor Who (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sydney Newman · Douglas Camfield · David Maloney · Christopher Barry

Cast William Hartnell · Patrick Troughton · Jon Pertwee · Tom Baker

Plot TV Series (1963-1989). 26 Seasons. 696 Episodes. The quintessential "mortgage lifter" for many a financially flagging PBS station, the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who was not always a...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Professionals (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Clemens · William Brayne · Martin Campbell · Dennis C. Lewiston

Cast Gordon Jackson · Martin Shaw · Lewis Collins · Bridget Brice

Plot This TV Series (1977-1983) chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to...

6.9

79 votes

6.9

79 votes

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler (TV)

1965 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Douglas Camfield

Cast William Hartnell · Maureen O'Brien · Peter Purves · Peter Butterworth

Plot The Doctor, Vicki, and new companion Steven Taylor arrive in Saxon Northumbria on the eve of the Viking and Norman invasions. It is 1066, just prior to the Battle of...

6.2

27 votes

6.2

27 votes

Thunderbirds (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

6.1

201 votes

6.1

201 votes

The Champions (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel · Paul Dickson · John Gilling · Robert Asher

Cast Stuart Damon · Alexandra Bastedo · William Gaunt · Anthony Nicholls

Plot TV Series (1968-1969). Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett were agents for Nemesis, an international intelligence organization based in Geneva. Their first mission as a team was to investigate...

5.9

33 votes

5.9

33 votes

The New Avengers (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ray Austin · Sidney Hayers · Robert Fuest · James Hill

Cast Patrick MacNee · Gareth Hunt · Joanna Lumley · Maurice Marsac

Plot John Steed and his new accomplices Purdey and Gambit find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage.

5.5

144 votes

5.5

144 votes

Department S (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel · John Gilling · Ray Austin · Paul Dickson

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Joel Fabiani · Rosemary Nicols · Dennis Alaba Peters

Plot TV Series (1969-1970). 28 episodes. An elite department within Interpol, Department S inherited those cases which the other member groups had failed to solve. The brains of the group was...

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Fireball XL5 (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerry Anderson · John Kelly · Alan Pattillo · Bill Harris

Plot TV Series (1962–1963). Fireball XL5 was part of the fleet of interplanetary rockets protecting Sector 25 of the Solar System from alien invasion under the supervision of the World Space...

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Doctor Who: The Romans (TV)

1965 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Barry

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Maureen O'Brien

Plot The four time travellers are enjoying a rare holiday, staying at a villa not far from Rome in the year 64 AD. The Doctor soon becomes restless and sets off...

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Stingray (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerry Anderson · Alan Pattillo · David Elliott · John Kelly

Plot TV Series (1964–1965). 39 episodes. The adventures of the WASPs (the World Aquanaut Security Patrol) as they explored the oceans and kept the world safe from a variety of perils....

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Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jeremy Summers · Ray Austin · Cyril Frankel · Leslie Norman

Cast Mike Pratt · Kenneth Cope · Annette Andre · Ivor Dean

Plot Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are private detectives who specialize in divorce cases. Their long-running partnership seems to come to an abrupt end when Marty is killed by a hit-and-run,...

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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror (TV)

1964 · Movie · 147 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henric Hirsch · John Gorrie

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford

Plot The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 - one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing...

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Man in a Suitcase (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Harris · Dennis Spooner · Charles Crichton · Peter Duffell

Cast Richard Bradford · Ricardo Montez · Warren Stanhope · Frank Forsyth

Plot McGill (known as "Mac") was a former U.S. intelligence agent based in London. After being thrown out of the agency for something he did not do, he finds his "false"...

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The Baron (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Llewellyn Moxey · Roy Ward Baker · Cyril Frankel · Robert Asher

Cast Steve Forrest · Sue Lloyd · Paul Ferris · Colin Gordon

Plot TV Series (1966-1967). Stories of an antique dealer who is really an undercover agent.

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Alien Attack (TV)

1976 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Crichton · Lee H. Katzin · Bill Lenny

Cast Martin Landau · Barbara Bain · Barry Morse · Roy Dotrice

Plot Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth, it is the operations...

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Bergerac (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Stewart · Michael Rolfe · Robert Tronson · Geoffrey Sax

Cast John Nettles · Terence Alexander · Sean Arnold · Mela White

Plot TV Series (1981-1991). 87 episodes. Alcoholic and divorced father of a young daughter, DS Jim Bergerac is a true maverick who prefers doing things his own way, and consequently doesn't...

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Jason King (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel · Jeremy Summers · Roy Ward Baker · Paul Dickson

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Anne Sharp · Ronald Lacey · Lee Patterson

Plot TV Series (1971-1972). 26 episodes. This spin-off from the earlier "Department S" continued the adventures of hedonistic, womanizing dandy Jason King. After leaving Department S, Jason settled down to a...

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Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan (TV)

1965 · Movie · 292 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Douglas Camfield

Cast William Hartnell · Adrienne Hill · Peter Purves · Conrad Monk

Plot The TARDIS materialises on Kembel. There the Doctor and his friends meet Space Security Service agent Bret Vyon, who has been sent in search of Marc Cory. Learning of the...

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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (TV)

1966 · Movie · 136 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Barry

Cast Patrick Troughton · Michael Craze · Anneke Wills · Bernard Archard

Plot The TARDIS brings the new Doctor, Polly and Ben to the Earth colony planet Vulcan. The Doctor witnesses a murder and, investigating the body, discovers a pass badge allowing him...

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