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 Immortal (1970 TV series) the book on which it is based (the protagonist of the book was a vagrant, not a test driver, who discovers his immortality when he sells his blood). Instead, "The Immortal" bears more than a superficial resemblance to the then-recent, very popular TV series, "The Fugitive", which still aired in syndicated reruns. That series had ended its four-season run three years before"The Immortal" began. It is also the mirror of the series "Run for Your Life" about a man suffering from a terminal disease who wants to experience everything because he is going to die soon, while Richards has to