Troy Kennedy Martin

Troy Kennedy Martin (15 February 1932 – 15 September 2009) was a Scottish-born film and television screenwriter best known for creating the long running BBC TV police series Z-Cars, and for the award-winning 1985 anti-nuclear drama Edge of Darkness. Kennedy Martin's best-known work for the cinema was the screenplay for the original version of The Italian Job. Martin was born in Glasgow and educated at Finchley Catholic Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin. He began writing for BBC Television in 1958, beginning with the play Incident at Echo Six, and he wrote four further plays for the Corporation over the following three years, before in 1961 creating his first series, Storyboard, a six-part anthology series which consisted both of original Kennedy Martin scripts and adaptations. The same year, he wrote the police drama The Interrogator. It was the genre of crime and policing, which gave rise to his next and probably most famous television work, the drama series Z-Cars, which he...