Philip Martin obituary
Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 13.19 EST Philip Martin, who has died aged 82, was a writer whose work for television synthesised gritty, often bleak and sometimes violent subjects with sly, offbeat humour and an innovative approach to the medium. His groundbreaking series Gangsters (1976-78) began as a one-off Play for Today on BBC1, shot on location in Birmingham, where Martin had embedded himself for weeks in order to authentically capture the city’s underbelly. A revenge story, it had a backdrop of seedy strip clubs and dodgy business deals as Maurice Colbourne, playing the anti-hero Jo...
Source: theguardian.com