Martin Woodhouse

Woodhouse was born in Romford and was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and Oundle. He read Natural Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge from 1951, and Medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London, completing his postgraduate research at the Medical Research Council's applied psychology unit in Cambridge (where he built "Lettuce", a logical truth computer). In 1959, Woodhouse was called up for National Service and worked with the Royal Air Force at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, and then at the Farnborough Radar Research Establishment – RRE. After being discharged from military service, Woodhouse worked as an author of novels and screen plays, a computer programmer and a stock trader. He also started a company, Illumination Publishing, which produced ebooks. == Bibliography ==

Woodhouse wrote the screenplays of seven episodes of the TV series The Avengers. He also wrote for several British TV series such as The Protectors, Emerald Soup, The Hidden Truth, and The Man in Room 17. He also wrote most of the screenplays for the 1961 season of the marionette TV show Supercar in partnership with his younger brother Hugh, and in 1960 two episodes of a similar show for children Four Feather Falls. He is believed to have written in excess of seventy screenplays. The Avengers episodes • A Chorus of Frogs (1962) • Mr. Teddy Bear (1962) • The Golden Eggs (1962) • The Big Thinker (1962) • Second Sight (1963) • The Wringer (1964) • A Sense of History (1965) The Hidden Truth episodes • The Guinea Pig (1964) • Cause of Death (1964) Supercar episodes • Rescue • Amazonian Adventure • Talisman of Sargon • False Alarm • What Goes Up • Keep It Cool • Grounded • Jungle Hazard • High Tension • A Little Art • Ice Fall • Island Incident • The Tracking of Masterspy • Phantom Piper • Deep Seven • Pirate Plunder • Hostage • The Sunken Temple • Trapped in the Depths • The Dragon of Ho Meng • Magic Carpet • The White Line == References ==