Peter J. Hammond (born c. 1930s; sometimes credited as P. J. Hammond) is a British television writer and novelist.
Career[]
Hammond's television career began in the 1960s, when he began by working on BBC police dramas. In 1970 he also wrote for the fantasy series Ace of Wands and later in the decade contributed to the soap opera Emmerdale Farm. He also continued to write for crime and police dramas. In the 1980s and 1990s, Hammond wrote for popular ITV police/detective shows The Gentle Touch, The Bill and Wycliffe, as well as for Doctor Finlay. He returned to the science fiction genre by writing an episode of the 1998 Sky One series Space Island One. although his episode was ultimately one of those that went untransmitted until 2002.
Work in the 2000s included many episodes of the popular murder mystery series Midsomer Murders.
In 2018 Hammond released his first novel, Downtimers.
Episodes with Screenwriting credits
- Dark Autumn (2001)
- Death and Dreams (2003)
- Bad Tidings (2004)
- Things That Go Bump in the Night (2004)
- Dead Letters (2006)
- Dance with the Dead (2006)
- Small Mercies (2009)
- The Silent Land (2010)
- Echoes of the Dead (2011)
External Links[]
- Peter J. Hammond at Wikipedia
- Peter J. Hammond at IMDB