David Sale
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David Sale is an Australian-based author and television
screenwriter
. He has contributed to many TV drama series, provided special material for Australia's leading entertainers, and has worked as producer, director, actor and journalist.
He is perhaps best known as creator, writer and script editor
of the highly influential television soap opera
Number 96
. Before that, he was Executive Producer of the satirical weekly comedy The Mavis Bramston Show
. Both of these series were highly popular in their day and still rank amongst the most famous and influential programs to have appeared on Australian television.
His first two novels, written between TV assignments, were Come to Mother and The Love Bite. These were published in London in hardback in the 1970s and both were bought by Hollywood. Come to Mother was made into the television film Live Again, Die Again (1974).
Television interrupted this flow of books, but in the 1990s Sale resumed his career as an author with Twisted Echoes (1993) (HODDER HEADLINE); Scorpion's Kiss (1995) (PAN MACMILLAN) and Hidden Agenda (1996) (PAN MACMILLAN).
He later tackled Musical Theatre for the first time with his co-written (book and lyrics) version of Sumner Locke Elliott
's novel Careful, He Might Hear You
.
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
. He has contributed to many TV drama series, provided special material for Australia's leading entertainers, and has worked as producer, director, actor and journalist.
He is perhaps best known as creator, writer and script editor
Script editor
A script editor is a member of the production team of scripted television programmes, usually dramas and comedies. The script editor has many responsibilities including finding new script writers, developing storyline and series ideas with writers, ensuring that scripts are suitable for production...
of the highly influential television soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Number 96
Number 96 (TV series)
Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects...
. Before that, he was Executive Producer of the satirical weekly comedy The Mavis Bramston Show
The Mavis Bramston Show
The Mavis Bramston Show was a popular and award-winning Australian TV satirical sketch comedy series of the mid-1960s.-Introduction:The tremendous impact that The Mavis Bramston Show had in Australia in the mid-1960s was heightened because of its unique place in the history of the Australian TV...
. Both of these series were highly popular in their day and still rank amongst the most famous and influential programs to have appeared on Australian television.
His first two novels, written between TV assignments, were Come to Mother and The Love Bite. These were published in London in hardback in the 1970s and both were bought by Hollywood. Come to Mother was made into the television film Live Again, Die Again (1974).
Television interrupted this flow of books, but in the 1990s Sale resumed his career as an author with Twisted Echoes (1993) (HODDER HEADLINE); Scorpion's Kiss (1995) (PAN MACMILLAN) and Hidden Agenda (1996) (PAN MACMILLAN).
He later tackled Musical Theatre for the first time with his co-written (book and lyrics) version of Sumner Locke Elliott
Sumner Locke Elliott
Sumner Locke Elliott was an Australian novelist.-Biography:Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Helena Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth...
's novel Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You is a 1983 Australian drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name by Australian-American author Sumner Locke Elliott....
.
Books
- Come to Mother (1971) (W.H. ALLEN) (ISBN 0-491-00317-X)
- The Love Bite (1972) (W.H. ALLEN)
- Chiller (1983, "based on The Love Bite") (SPHERE) (ISBN 0-7221-7625-2)
- Antidote (1991) (BANTAM) (ISBN 1-86359-027-7)
- Twisted Echoes (1993) (HODDER HEADLINE) (ISBN 0-74724083-3)
- Scorpion's Kiss (1995) (PAN MACMILLAN) (ISBN 0-33027497-X)
- Hidden Agenda (1996) (PAN MACMILLAN) (ISBN 0-33035737-9)