Cyril Abraham Cyril Abraham Cyril Stanley Abraham (22 September 1915 – 30 July 1979), was an English screenwriter best known for creating the popular BBC series "The Onedin Line" (1971–1980), writing the scripts for 22 episodes in addition to five novels based on the series. Born in Liverpool in England, the son of John Abrahams, an oil mill labourer, and Agnes (née Davies), a widow, who married in 1918, as a boy Abraham attended the Liverpool Collegiate School and as a youth on the training ship HMS Conway before going to sea as an apprentice with the Liverpool shipping line Lambert and
Cyril Frankel Cyril Frankel Cyril S. Frankel (28 December 1921 – 7 June 2017) was a British film and television director. His career in television began in 1953 and he directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990. He was born in Stoke Newington, London. He directed many episodes of popular British TV shows, such as "The Avengers", and the pilot episodes of the ITC Entertainment shows "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" and "Department S" in 1969. In 1970, he directed "Timelash", an episode of "UFO", which he described as a very interesting script and one of his personal favourites. Frankel also directed