Six Doctor Who adventures starring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton as the First and Second Doctors – plus extra bonus material.
David Whitaker was the first Story Editor for Doctor Who, and was
responsible for finding and commissioning writers, and it was
Whitaker as much as anyone who defined the narrative shape of
Doctor Who. He wrote for the Doctor Who annuals, novelised the
first Dalek story and worked with Terry Nation on various
Dalek-related material including the hugely successful comic strip
The Daleks. David Whitaker died in 1980.
Mervyn Haisman was one of the creators – with co-author Henry
Lincoln – of Doctor Who’s memorable Yeti monsters. They were first
seen in the serial The Abominable Snowmen in 1967, and were so
popular with the audience that they featured in a second story, The
Web of Fear, a year later. However, this was to be the last
appearance of the Abominable Snowmen until 1983’s The Five Doctors.
Haisman and Lincoln’s last script for Doctor Who was The
Dominators. Haisman subsequently went on to write for the popular
BBC series Jane, starring Glynis Barber, as well as The Onedin Line
(on which he was also script editor) and Howard’s Way. He died in
2010.
Henry Lincoln is probably best known as co-author of the
controversial book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which later
influenced Dan Brown's mega-bestselling The Da Vinci Code. He
co-wrote (with Mervyn Haisman) three Doctor Who serials - The
Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and The Dominators. An actor as
well as author, Lincoln appeared in several TV series in the 1960s
including The Avengers, The Saint, Man in a Suitcase and The
Champions. He has also presented TV documentaries on The Man in the
Iron Mask, Nostradamus and the Cathars. He lives in France, near
the village of Rennes-le-Château.
Victor Pemberton was a scriptwriter who also worked as an actor to
supplement his writing income. This led to director Morris Barry
casting him in Doctor Who (The Moonbase). After a brief stint
writing and script-editing Doctor Who in the mid-Sixties, Victor
wrote numerous other scripts for radio and television and produced
Fraggle Rock. In 1990, Headline Books invited Pemberton to write a
novelisation of a drama series he had penned called Our Family.
This was published in 1991 and led to a successful career as a
novelist. To date he has published fifteen `family saga’ novels,
including Where the Swallows Come Again.
Derrick Sherwin was script editor and later producer on Doctor Who
between 1968 and 1970. During this time, he oversaw the transition
from Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor to Jon Pertwee's Third
Doctor and the production's conversion from monochrome to colour.
He wrote the script for The Invasion, adapting the storyline from
an idea of Kit Pedler’s and introducing UNIT to the programme. He
went on to produce Paul Temple , The Man Outside, Ski Boy and The
Perils of Pendragon. In 2014, he published his autobiography, Who’s
Next?
Robert Holmes received his first commission to write for Doctor Who
in 1968, and soon became one of the lead writers for the series. He
became script editor in 1974, and stayed in the job until 1977.
Seven years later, in 1984, he wrote The Caves of Androzani, which
has come to be seen as a classic, and was voted all-time best
episode in a 2009 poll for The Daily Telegraph. In total, Holmes
contributed 19 scripts to Doctor Who (if you include The Ultimate
Foe, for which he only wrote episode 1), and he created or debuted
numerous characters and concepts, including The Master, Sarah Jane
Smith, Gallifrey and the 12-regeneration limit for Time Lords. He
died in 1986.
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