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 Regiment (TV series) while the second series in 1973 followed the regiment on a posting to British India. It once received a brief review in the "Glasgow Weekly News" "The Regiment: ought to be disbanded". The theme music to the series was the finale of the Triumphal March from "Caractacus" by Sir Edward Elgar. The Regiment (TV series) The Regiment was a British television drama series produced by the BBC. First broadcast on BBC One in 1972 it starred Christopher Cazenove and followed the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families. "The Regiment" was based on a single