Born in Wimbledon in the early 1950s, Marcus Platt attended
technical college to learn catering before giving up a job with
Trust House Forte to work at the BBC on the administrative side,
involved in the cataloguing of data regarding the BBC’s radio
output followed by a post as a selector in the BBC’s Sound
Archives. He was a Doctor Who fan from the programme’s start, which
led him to become a member of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society
and a contributor to fanzines and Doctor Who Magazine. He submitted
a number of ideas to the series towards the end of its initial run.
One of these eventually became Ghost Light (1989). He went on to
adapt his own story and Ben Aaronovitch’s scripts for Battlefield
for the Target range of novelisations. He wrote two original novels
for Virgin (Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible, 1992; Lungbarrow, 1997).
He also penned the spin-off video Downtime, featuring the
Brigadier, Sarah Jane Smith, Professor Travers and the Yeti, and
novelised his script of this production for Virgin in 1996. Platt
continues to contribute to the Doctor Who universe with several
audio scripts for Big Finish’s range of plays and entries in a
number of short story anthologies also published by Big Finish. He
has also written for the 2007 audio revival of Blake’s 7. His audio
story Spare Parts was the inspiration behind the 2006 Doctor Who
television story Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, for which
Platt received an on-screen credit, although he himself did not
write the teleplay. Author biography by David J. Howe, author of
The Target Book, the complete illustrated guide to the Target
Doctor Who novelisations.
Marc Platt wrote the TV Doctor Who story Ghost Light first
broadcast in 1989. He has written many Doctor Who audio plays for
Big Finish Productions including Loups-Garoux, Spare Parts, Cradle
of the Snake, The Silver Turk. Auld Mortality, A Storm of Angels
and The Doctor’s Tale. He also dramatised two stories by former
Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe: The Ghosts of Gralstead and
The Devil’s Armada (both with Tom Baker). He has recently
dramatised The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for audio. Blake’s 7 audio
plays include Flag and Flame, The Sea of Iron and Drones. He is a
published author with several TV tie-in novels and short stories to
his name.
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