This man made possible an endless stream of classic series, TV plays, films, etc. He was a modest genius. The way he thought out plots and characters. He was thinking sideways and out of the box. It's a shame talent such as him are no longer around. Brilliant man
one of the most cleverest writers ever, always brilliant and occasionally very witty scripts. I also liked his script for blind terror (1971) aka see no evil. RIP Brian
Cool little interview. While watching, I was wondering why all the film clips were from Noon Doomsday, then it made sense when they toured Brian's farm, used as the set for that episode. Thanks for sharing!
Brian was a distant relative of Mark Twain (they both shared the same last name). Brian named his children Samuel Joshua Twain Clemens and George Langhorne Clemens.
Brian never finished listing his "rules" but my father, who seldom watched the show, was still perceptive enough to point out that there were never any police--except in one episode where an actor was playing a cop--and never any blood. The irony was the episode where REMAK would clean up and package the dead agents--the killings were so clean that it was really unnecessary!
The Avengers was not the brain child of Brian Clemens at all! Leonard White, was the man who created The Avengers. He came up with the title, the concept, cast his friend Patrick Macnee, wrote notes for and chose the writers, brought in directors Peter Hammond and Don Leaver to create a style. He cast Honor Blackman as Hendry's replacement. All Sydney Newman did was tell him he had to use Ian Hendry. Newman didn't even know what the word Avenge meant, thinking it was the same as revenge. The series was Leonard's vision. He was far too modest to acknowledge his achievements until the last few years of his life. He lived in the shadow of others who claimed to have created the series when they weren't even there. I told him it was time he reclaimed those achievements and I promised him I would continue to champion them for him. He was a kind, funny, modest and intelligent man. Also Clemens did not co-write the pilot for The Avengers as he so often claimed - the series never had a pilot for a start as it was commissioned as a 26 episode series - it had an episode 1, Hot Snow, written by Ray Rigby. Episode 2, as it states on all the original scripts, Brough to Book was written by Clemens.
Thanks for this.
Interesting to see behind the scenes, where the great man lives.
This man made possible an endless stream of classic series, TV plays, films, etc. He was a modest genius. The way he thought out plots and characters. He was thinking sideways and out of the box. It's a shame talent such as him are no longer around. Brilliant man
one of the most cleverest writers ever, always brilliant and occasionally very witty scripts. I also liked his script for blind terror (1971) aka see no evil. RIP Brian
Thank you! Love Brian Clemens!!
Cool little interview. While watching, I was wondering why all the film clips were from Noon Doomsday, then it made sense when they toured Brian's farm, used as the set for that episode. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Brian 👍
Absolute genius!
Brian was a distant relative of Mark Twain (they both shared the same last name).
Brian named his children Samuel Joshua Twain Clemens and George Langhorne Clemens.
Brian never finished listing his "rules" but my father, who seldom watched the show, was still perceptive enough to point out that there were never any police--except in one episode where an actor was playing a cop--and never any blood. The irony was the episode where REMAK would clean up and package the dead agents--the killings were so clean that it was really unnecessary!
As was that episode. Jennifer Croxton would have been a disaster. Trying to " copy" Emma Peel" continuously, would have been a grave mistake.
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The Avengers was not the brain child of Brian Clemens at all! Leonard White, was the man who created The Avengers. He came up with the title, the concept, cast his friend Patrick Macnee, wrote notes for and chose the writers, brought in directors Peter Hammond and Don Leaver to create a style. He cast Honor Blackman as Hendry's replacement. All Sydney Newman did was tell him he had to use Ian Hendry. Newman didn't even know what the word Avenge meant, thinking it was the same as revenge. The series was Leonard's vision. He was far too modest to acknowledge his achievements until the last few years of his life. He lived in the shadow of others who claimed to have created the series when they weren't even there. I told him it was time he reclaimed those achievements and I promised him I would continue to champion them for him. He was a kind, funny, modest and intelligent man. Also Clemens did not co-write the pilot for The Avengers as he so often claimed - the series never had a pilot for a start as it was commissioned as a 26 episode series - it had an episode 1, Hot Snow, written by Ray Rigby. Episode 2, as it states on all the original scripts, Brough to Book was written by Clemens.