Dennis Spooner

A look at writer Dennis Spooner’s work on Doctor Who.

Adventures of the super-sub Stingray and the World Aquanaut Security Patrol and their battles against Titan, leader of the underwater city of Titanica.

While waiting for Atlanta and Marina, Commander Sam Shore shows Admiral Denver films depicting the previous missions that Troy Tempest and Phones had with the submarine Stingray.

When International Rescue is framed for theft, the organisation's intelligence network must clear their name before the Tracys are arrested, responding to a distress call they cannot ignore.

When a banker gets trapped in the Bank of England's new vault, International Rescue races to save him, but Parker frets that he will spoil his old cellmate's dream of robbing the bank.

Brains and Lady Penelope find themselves involved in a rescue mission when the Arlington Bridge collapses, trapping the Martian Space Probe and its engineers in the river bed.

A robbery is prevented by an undercover art dealer pretending to be a criminal. Edited from TV series, The Baron.

When an old flame of Tin-Tin's is trapped inside a tractor on a collapsing ledge with a case of explosives beside him, the Tracys must save him without revealing their identities.

Workmen digging in a building discover the remains of a 300 year-old devil cult.

After being reprimanded by International Rescue for sending them a false alert, two Australian boys are trapped by the Hood in a mine when he tries to steal secret photos from their father.

A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick, but a journalist's arrival complicates matters.

The Hood steals a surveillance robot disguised as a mouse to photograph the inner workings of both a Saharan nuclear power plant and the Thunderbird machines.

In England, 1066, the Doctor confronts a mysterious Monk who is attempting to change history.

SHADO receive a report that a former Olympic champion has disappeared from a farm in the English countryside, thinking it might be an alien abduction, Colonel Paul Foster is dispatched to track down the UFO and eliminate it.

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 prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.

In the year 4000, the Daleks conspire to conquer the Solar System. Their scheme involves treachery at the highest levels and a weapon capable of destroying the very fabric of time. Only the Doctor and his friends can prevent catastrophe — and there is no guarantee they will escape with their lives...

The TARDIS crew take up residence near Rome in 64AD, where Ian and Barbara are kidnapped by slave traders, and the Doctor's imitation of Maximus Pettulian sees him taken to the court of Emperor Nero where he inadvertently plays a part in deciding the course of history...

A secret agent is interrogated by his superiors on suspicion of being a double agent and being involved with a Tibetan guru who has supernatural powers.

Follows three United Nations agents whose plane crashes into the Himalayas. Upon being rescued by an advanced civilization secretly living in Tibet, they are granted enhanced intellectual and physical abilities. When the agents return to the outside world, they use their new superhuman abilities to become champions of law, order and justice.

Episodes from Gerry Anderson's Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and The Secret Service in High Definition.

A woman hears her fiancee's ghostly voice telling her to find him.