From the screenplay by Peter Cook based on an original story by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - a comic retelling of the Faust legend set in 1960's London. The Devil offers an unhappy young man seven wishes in return for his soul, but twists the spirit of the wishes to frustrate the man's hopes.
Michael John Hereford Bird (31 October 1928– 11 May 2001) was an English writer.
He was best known for four television drama series he wrote for the BBC, set in the Mediterranean. The Lotus Eaters and Who Pays the Ferryman? were set in Crete, The Aphrodite Inheritance was set in Cyprus, and The Dark Side of the Sun took place on Rhodes.
Bird formed his own production company, named Gryphon Productions, and negotiated a number of co-productions with the BBC.
He was also the author of The Town That Died: a Chronicle of the Halifax Disaster, released in 1962.