Robin Chapman
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Robin Chapman is a British writer and actor, chiefly known for his television work.
Chapman was a member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. Later he created a number of trail-blazing original series for Granada TV including The Man in Room 17 (1965) and a sequel The Fellows (1967) both of which dealt with the cases of theoretical criminologists who solved crimes in the outside world while rarely (if ever) leaving their offices. An episode of The Fellows prompted another series, Spindoe in 1968, charting the attempts of a London gangster (just released from five years in prison) to recover his crime empire. In 1969 a further gangster series, Big Breadwinner Hog had a level of violence that proved enormously controversial at the time.
Later work includes the series Villains (1972), Tales of the Unexpected (1988), Maigret (1992) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1996).
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