Christopher H. Bidmead

Christopher Hamilton Bidmead (born Christopher Theodore Bidmead on 18 January 1941 ) wrote three Doctor Who TV serials, all of which he also novelised. He was also script editor for season 18.

He was attached (agreed, but without a contract) to write several serials that were ultimately cancelled. They were In the Hollows of Time, a two-part (forty-five minute) story for the cancelled season 23, and a four parter, Pinacotheca (a.k.a. The Last Adventure), which would have been the third part of the The Trial of a Time Lord arc.

He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

With the death of Donald Tosh in 2019, he is the earliest surviving script editor for Doctor Who.

Doctor Who

 * Logopolis
 * Castrovalva
 * Frontios

Novelisations

 * Logopolis
 * Castravalva
 * Frontios

Doctor Who Main Range

 * Renaissance of the Daleks (credited as "Based on a story by Christopher H. Bidmead")

The Lost Stories

 * The Hollows of Time

Audiobook Readings

 * Logopolis
 * Frontios

Contributions to the mythos
Major characters and concepts created for or debuting in a Christopher H. Bidmead script include:
 * The Fifth Doctor
 * Tegan Jovanka
 * The TARDIS' Cloister Room, Cloister Bell and Zero Room.
 * The concept of a regeneration going wrong to the point of possibly failing (a plot development repeated with later incarnations).
 * The concept of an "in-between" Doctor, in this case the Watcher (later, arguably, the Valeyard fit into this category, too).