John Brason is a British script writer and script editor, best known for the series made in collaboration with television producer

Gerard Glaister John Leslie Glaister DFC (21 December 1915 – 5 February 2005), known as Gerard or Gerrard Glaister, was a British television producer and director best known for his work with the BBC. Amongst his most notable successes as a producer were '' ...

, ''

Colditz Colditz () is a small town in the district of Leipzig, in Saxony, Germany. It is best known for Colditz Castle, the site of the Oflag IV-C POW camp for officers in World War II. Geography Colditz is situated in the Leipzig Bay, southeast of the ...

'' and '' Secret Army'', both set during World War II. Brason was known for his

anti-communism Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the ...

, among the reasons he believed for the non-broadcast of his final scripted episode of ''Secret Army'', "What Did You Do During the War, Daddy?"

Credits

As Writer

* ''

'' (1972) * ''

Moonbase 3 ''Moonbase 3'' is a British science fiction television programme that ran for six episodes in 1973. It was a co-production between the BBC, 20th Century Fox and the American ABC network. Created by ''Doctor Who'' producer Barry Letts and s ...

'' (1973) * ''

Special Branch Special Branch is a label customarily used to identify units responsible for matters of national security and Intelligence (information gathering), intelligence in Policing in the United Kingdom, British, Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, ...

'' (1974) * ''

Boy Dominic A boy is a young male human. The term is commonly used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is described as a man. Definition, etymology, and use According to the ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary'', a boy is "a ...

'' (1974) * '' Blood Relations'' (originally ''Bloedverwanten'', 1977) * '' Secret Army'' (1977–79) * '' The Fourth Arm'' (1979) * ''

Buccaneer Buccaneers were a kind of privateers or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625, their heyday was from Stuart Restoration, the Restoration in 16 ...

'' (1980) * '' Enemy at the Door'' (1980) * ''

Diamonds Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, bu ...

'' (1981) * ''

Kessler Kessler or Keßler (in German) may refer to: * Kessler (automobile), an American automobile made 1921–1922 * Kessler (name), people named Kessler * ''Kessler'' (TV series), a British television series from 1981 * Kessler, Ohio, an unincorporat ...

'' (1981) * ''

Chessgame ''Chessgame'' is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1983. Based on a series of novels by Anthony Price, the series dealt with the activities of a quartet of counter-intelligence agents: David Aud ...

'' (1983) * '' Skorpion'' (1983) * ''

Cold Warrior The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of Geopolitics, geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term ''Cold war (term), co ...

'' (1984)

Script Editor

* ''Secret Army'' (1977–79) * ''

'' (1980) * ''

Blood Money Blood money may refer to: * Blood money (restitution), money paid to the family of a murder victim Films * Blood Money (1917 film), ''Blood Money'' (1917 film), a film starring Harry Carey * Blood Money (1921 film), ''Blood Money'' (1921 film ...

'' (1981) * ''

Howards' Way ''Howards' Way'' is a television drama series produced by BBC Birmingham and transmitted on BBC1 between 1 September 1985 and 25 November 1990. The series deals with the personal and professional lives of the wealthy yachting and business comm ...

'' (1985–86)

Director

* ''

Walk a Crooked Path ''Walk a Crooked Path '' is a 1969 British crime film directed by John Brason and starring Tenniel Evans, Faith Brook and Patricia Haines. The film is set at a boarding school where a man plans to murder his wealthy teacher wife. It is sometim ...

'' (1969)

Novels

* ''Secret Army'' (prequel to series one of the TV series) * ''The Secret Army Dossier'' (largely covers the period between series one and series two) * ''Secret Army: The End of the Line'' (third series) * ''Kessler'' * ''Howards' Way: No. 3''

References

External links

* British television writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-film-bio-stub