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Anthony Bonham Pease (formerly "Sir Anthony") is the nonagenarian creator of the Inspector Spacetime programme for the British TeleVision company.
Biography[]
Son of an East End grocer, Pease found work as an unsolicited script reader for BTV's Dramatic Television and Puppetry Department after being sent down from Cambridge for reasons that are still hazy.
In 1960 Pease was developing a thriller serial for BTV tentatively entitled Constabulary Doctor, with Leslie French attached to star, but when he heard about a similar project at the Associated British Corporation by a rival producer, he hastily retooled the concept into a science fiction adventure, which, after many false starts, finally aired in 1962.
The circumstances under which his knighthood was revoked remain obscure, but rumours suggest they revolve around an unannounced visit to the Inspector Spacetime set during the filming of its 50th anniversary episode by Her Majesty the Queen (who had long disliked the programme).
In 2020, after showrunner Niall B. Chrisch’s tumultuous tenure for the Thirteenth Inspector, BTV reluctantly announced Pease would return for the programme’s 60th anniversary.
Trivia[]
- Pease voices some of the non-human characters, including the Circuit-Chaps and the Asterozoids.
- Pease found an expression for his twin loves of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas and 70s prog rock in his five-hour-long opus Inspector Spacetime and the Blorgons in the Seven Clues to Armageddon: The Musical.
- BTV executives were secretly relieved when his knighthood was revoked, as a “Sir Anthony” has a rather unfortunate definition in Cockney rhyming slang.