Christopher H. Bidmead (born Christopher Hamilton Bidmead on 18 January 1941[1]) wrote three Doctor Who TV serials, all of which he also novelised. He was also script editor for season 18.
He was contracted 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[2], 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[3].
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.
Career[]
Prior to becoming a writer, he had been an actor and trained at RADA with Anthony Ainley. (DCOM: The Keeper of Traken)
Writer Credits[]
Television[]
Doctor Who[]
Novels[]
Target Novelisations[]
Short Stories[]
Doctor Who Magazine[]
Audio[]
Doctor Who Main Range[]
- Renaissance of the Daleks (credited as "Based on a story by Christopher H. Bidmead")
The Lost Stories[]
Audiobook Readings[]
Target Novelisations[]
Script Editor Credits[]
Television[]
Doctor Who[]
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 fits into this category, too).
- Tractators
Documentary[]
- The High-Hikers' Guide to Douglas Adams
- Showman - The Life of John Nathan-Turner
- A New Beginning
- Meglos Men
- All Aboard the Starliner
- K9 in E-Space
- The Vampire Lovers
- The Dreaming
- Being Nice to Each Other
- The Return of the Master
- Hanging By a Thread
- A New Body at Last
- Time Trap: The Making of Castrovalva
- The Writer's Room: Season 18
- The Crowded TARDIS
- Days of Wrath
- Dream Time
- Driven to Distractation
- Come in Number Five
