The Third Doctor?s very first adventure - against the Autons, in a new edition of a Doctor Who classic
The Third Doctor's very first adventure - against the Autons, in a new edition of a Doctor Who classic
Terrance Dicks worked together with Malcolm Hulke on scripts for
The Avengers as well as other series before becoming Assistant, and
later full Script Editor of Doctor Who from 1968. Dicks worked on
the entirety of the Jon Pertwee Third Doctor era of the programme,
and returned as a writer - scripting Tom Baker's first story as the
Fourth Doctor- Robot. His later script writing credits on Doctor
Who included the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors. Terrance
Dicks novelised many of the original Doctor Who stories for Target
books, and has written original Doctor Who novels for BBC
Books.
Robert Holmes served with distinction in the army and also in the
police before becoming a journalist and television writer. Holmes
went on to become one of the Doctor Who's most prolific writers. He
took over as Script Editor of Doctor Who in 1974 during one of the
programme's most successful periods at the start of the Fourth
Doctor's era, and established a background and society for the Time
Lords that has endured to this day. Robert Holmes wrote for many
other series including Doomwatch, Spy Trap, Dixon of Dock Green,
Blake's 7 and many others. Holmes died in 1986, while working on
the final episodes of the Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time
Lord.
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