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
The Intruder (TV series) The Intruder (TV series) The Intruder was a British drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network and was broadcast on Sundays from 2 January to 20 February 1972. There were eight episodes made, all of them running 25 minutes. The series was based on the children's book of this same name by John Rowe Townsend, published in 1970. The novel was well received, and won numerous awards, it was adapted for television in 1971, before being shown on television the following year. The life of Arnold Haithwaite (James Bate) a sixteen-year-old English boy begins to change when