Peter Ling was a British writer for television and a novelist. Ling was born in Croydon, Surrey, England, in 1926. He started writing while in the army during World War II, and honed his craft while spending two years in a sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis. Success on radio led to him becoming a script editor and Head of Children's Series for Associated-Rediffusion. Ling later co-created with Hazel Adair the soap opera Compact.

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  • Peter Ling was a British writer for television and a novelist. Ling was born in Croydon, Surrey, England, in 1926. He started writing while in the army during World War II, and honed his craft while spending two years in a sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis. Success on radio led to him becoming a script editor and Head of Children's Series for Associated-Rediffusion. Ling later co-created with Hazel Adair the soap opera Compact. He went on to create, again with Hazel Adair, the long running soap opera Crossroads. Ling also wrote scripts for programmes such as Dixon of Dock Green, The Avengers (the episodes Ashes of Roses, Dance with Death, and Box of Tricks), Sexton Blake, and Doctor Who. Peter Ling published several novels, including the novelisation of The Mind Robber for Target Books. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he wrote stories for the Eagle comic.
  • Peter Ling war ein britischer Redakteur für das Fernsehen und ein Schriftsteller. Ling begann während des Zweiten Weltkriegs bei der Armee zu schreiben. Erfolge im Radio ließen ihn zu einem Redakteur werden. Später wirkte er an der Erschaffung mehrerer Serien mit, wie zum Beispiel der Soap Opera Compact, und schrieb Drehbücher für die Fernsehserien Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone und Doctor Who, bevor er die neue Soap Opera Crossroads erschuf. In den letzten Jahren seines Lebens veröffentlichte er mehrere Romane, wie zum Beispiel The Mind Robber für Target Books.
  • Peter Ling var en manusforfatter og romanforfatter. Ling begynte å skrive mens han var i hæren under andre verdenskrig og han fortsatte mens han tilbrakte to år på et sanatorium mens han kom seg etter å ha fått tuberkulose. Etter suksess som forfatter for hørespill, ble han manusredigerer sjef for barneserier hos Associated-Rediffusion. Ling var medskaper med Hazel Adair av såpeoperaene Compact og Crossroads Ling skrev også manus for serier som Dixon of Dock Green, The Avengers, Sexton Blake og Doctor Who. Han utga flere bøker, inkludert boken basert på Doctor Who-historien han skrev, The Mind Robber, for Target Books. Han skrev også historier for tegneserieheftet Eagle.
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  • Peter Ling was a British writer for television and a novelist. Ling was born in Croydon, Surrey, England, in 1926. He started writing while in the army during World War II, and honed his craft while spending two years in a sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis. Success on radio led to him becoming a script editor and Head of Children's Series for Associated-Rediffusion. Ling later co-created with Hazel Adair the soap opera Compact.
  • Peter Ling war ein britischer Redakteur für das Fernsehen und ein Schriftsteller. Ling begann während des Zweiten Weltkriegs bei der Armee zu schreiben. Erfolge im Radio ließen ihn zu einem Redakteur werden. Später wirkte er an der Erschaffung mehrerer Serien mit, wie zum Beispiel der Soap Opera Compact, und schrieb Drehbücher für die Fernsehserien Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone und Doctor Who, bevor er die neue Soap Opera Crossroads erschuf.
  • Peter Ling var en manusforfatter og romanforfatter. Ling begynte å skrive mens han var i hæren under andre verdenskrig og han fortsatte mens han tilbrakte to år på et sanatorium mens han kom seg etter å ha fått tuberkulose. Etter suksess som forfatter for hørespill, ble han manusredigerer sjef for barneserier hos Associated-Rediffusion.
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  • Peter Ling
  • Peter Ling
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