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Malcolm McKay (writer)

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trilogy (Royal Television Society, best serial, Golden Chest Awards, best drama) one of the first television dramas to deal in depth with the arrest, trial and psychology of a serial killer.
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McKay has spent many years as a writer and director for television. His writing has always dealt with extreme behaviour and includes the controversial
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about the police questioning of a murder suspect (first shown in 1987) becomes the first part of the trilogy; the second part,
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for teenagers set in a mythical town somewhere in the universe which is impossible to escape from and where no-one gets older.
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base in England. The play achieved notoriety after it was mentioned in Parliament and the Lords after Prime Minister
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This article is about the English writer and director. For the Scottish crime writer, see
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details the slow descent of the Californian cult into paranoia and mass suicide;
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He has made three films for the BBC as writer and director:
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McKay has written many plays for the theatre including
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about a woman's recovery from rape was nominated for a
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about his subsequent treatment concludes the trilogy.
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A major contributor to this article appears to have a
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