Tony Barwick (10 July 1934 – August 1993) was a British television scriptwriter who worked extensively on series created and produced by Gerry Anderson.
Barwick scripted episodes for Anderson's Supermarionation series Thunderbirds (two out of 32 episodes), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (21 out of 32 episodes), Joe 90 (16 out of 30 episodes) and The Secret Service (four out of 13 episodes), as well as his live-action series UFO (14 out of 26 episodes), The Protectors (ten out of 52 episodes) and Space: 1999 (two out of 48 episodes).
He also contributed scripts to Anderson and Christopher Burr's Supermacromation series Terrahawks, writing under various pseudonyms for all but one episode. All of these pseudonyms ended with the suffix "-stein" in imitation of the name of the leading character, Dr Tiger Ninestein. Barwick wrote 35 of the 39 episodes of Terrahawks; "The Midas Touch", which he co-wrote with Trevor Lansdowne, is the only episode in which it was his real name as opposed to a pseudonym that appeared in the end credits. With the completion of Terrahawks, Barwick went on to script the whole of Anderson's two-part stop-motion series Dick Spanner, P.I. (for which he was credited as "Harry Bolt").
Anderson and Barwick collaborated on other projects, one of which was a James Bond film script, Moonraker, that would ultimately be rejected. The similarities between this script and the 1979 film are limited to their shared title, and the plot of the completed film incorporates none of Barwick and Anderson's ideas.
Barwick also served as script editor for Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and UFO. Other writing credits include The Persuaders!, The Pathfinders, The Protectors, The Professionals and Shadowchaser.
His scriptwriting is known for its humour. He often set the events of a particular episode on the date of his birthday, 10 July.
Barwick continued to work as a scriptwriter until his death of cancer in 1993.
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