He is remembered for his work on Terry Nation's seminal BBC post-apocalyptic series, Survivors,[2] which was listed by SFX magazine as one of the 'Top 50 British Telefantasy Shows'.

Jack Tobias Ronder was the grandson of Lithuanian Jews who fled their homeland in 1885 due to persecution in Tsarist Russia.

Believing themselves to have bought tickets to America, the family were made to disembark in Dundee, Scotland where they settled and he was born.

[3] Their story inspired Ronder's first book and a BBC TV series, The Lost Tribe,[4][5] the story of the establishment of Jewish community in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

[8] He went on to write the first one man play for Russell Hunter, one of Scotland's most talented and versatile actors, called Cocky, about Lord Cockburn in 1969.