Ian Kennedy Martin (born
23 May 1936) is a
British
television scriptwriter. He is best known
for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series
The Sweeney, produced by
Euston Films for
Thames Television, which ran on the
ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned
two
feature film spin-offs. He is also
known for writing the 1975 action film
Mitchell.
He began his television career in the 1960s, first as a
script editor on the military police drama
series
Redcap (1964) and
then later as a writer on series such as
The
Troubleshooters (1965). In 1971 he worked on the popular
BBC drama series
The Onedin Line, which ran for nine
years until 1980.
Since the end of
The Sweeney in 1978, Kennedy Martin has
continued to write for various police / detective dramas. These
have included the BBC's
Juliet
Bravo and
The Chinese
Detective during the 1980s and
ITV's
The Knock in the 1990s. He has also written a number of
novels, including
Rekill and the
dystopian science fiction novel
The
Last Crime, this last under the pseudonym John Domatilla.
On 9th March 2009, his first play,
The Berlin Hanover
Express premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in North
London.
He is the brother of the scriptwriter
Troy Kennedy Martin, with whom he worked
on
Redcap and
The Sweeney.
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