Johnny Byrne and the Yugoslav wars

[nwhyte]

Various sources are reporting the death of Johnny Byrne, who wrote much of the hit series All Creatures Great and Small (based on the pseudonymous reminiscences of Yorkshire vet "James Herriot", and starring among others a youthful Peter Davison) and also wrote three Doctor Who stories, The Keeper of Traken, Arc of Infinity and Warriors of the Deep

Comments

[parrot_knight]

Good heavens! Worse than the elaboration, exaggeration and extrapolation of which Anthony Read and David Fisher are accused concerning their books on the Second World War...

[rfmcdpei]

That, well. wow. We all can only hope we've a better-looking records on USENET than the late Mr. Byrne.

[martin_wisse]

You forgot that he also wrote for Space:1999.

[nwhyte]

A deliberate omission; I never watched it!