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job pay well it was an education. What I learned
there was put to good use when I started writing
for all those police series, years later. Nothing’s
ever wasted.”
After leaving East 15 Douglas acted for a short
time and began writing for television. He was
inspired by the leading television writers of
the day, David Mercer, John Hopkins and Dennis
Potter.
Eventually Douglas took a permanent job writing
the biographies and sleeve notes at Decca Records
which gave him more free time for writing.
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His first half hour television
play – submitted entirely on spec - was
produced in 1978. Shortly after that Douglas
went to work at the BBC and became a script
editor, preparing and contributing to such classics
as Z Cars, The Brothers, Duchess of Duke Street
and many, many more.
Somewhere along the line he got married and
moved out of London to a village in Buckinghamshire
and had four children who have all flown the
nest.
Theoretically.
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