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.
Credits
Television
Doctor Who
Novels
Novelisations
Audio
Doctor Who Main Range
- Renaissance of the Daleks (credited as "Based on a story by Christopher H. Bidmead")
The Lost Stories
Audiobook Readings
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 Appearances
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Audio commentary
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