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
Direction Gerry Anderson · Sylvia Anderson · Desmond Saunders · David Lane
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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