Jaz’s comments come from an interview Andrew Pixley and I did with Dennis Spooner at the Fan Aid North convention in Leeds in November 1985. This was later written up and appeared in the first issue of the magazine Vulcan in May 1987 and then I reworked it with additional material and it appeared again in my own magazine Action TV (number 14) in August 2007.Darren wrote:Jaz brings this up in the commentary about it also being a Dennis Spooner script, Clemens says that he wrote it for this season. It wasn't a recycle job.Frankymole wrote:(and had been an unmade Emma Peel script, or did I get that wrong? It's been some decades since I read the set's booklet!).
After Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell returned to The Avengers at the beginning of the Linda Thorson season they badly needed new scripts and one weekend Brain started writing Split! This happened while he was at home on his farm at Ampthill in Bedfordshire. Brian’s close friend Dennis Spooner was staying with him for the weekend and he assisted in the plotting of the screenplay, which was still being written as the episode went into production.
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