Eric Saward
Writing · Born 1944-12-09 · age 81
Eric Saward (born 9 December 1944) is a British radio scriptwriter who worked as a screenwriter and script editor on the BBC's science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1982 to 1986. He wrote the stories The Visitation, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks. Saward's career as a scriptwriter began with drama for radio while he was working as a teacher. Later he was able to cross into full-time writing. He was approached by then Doctor Who script editor Christopher H. Bidmead to submit some ideas to the series on the strength of a recommendation from the senior drama script editor at BBC Radio. He received a commission to write the story The Visitation. This in turn led to his appointment as script editor on the recommendation of Antony Root, who had briefly replaced Bidmead.
Titles
Doctor Who
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
Doctor Who: Earthshock
Tales of the Tardis
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
Doctor Who: Frontios
Doctor Who: The Awakening
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
Doctor Who: Timelash
Doctor Who: The Visitation
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Doctor Who: Kinda
Doctor Who: Time-Flight
Doctor Who: Terminus
Doctor Who: Snakedance
Doctor Who: Enlightenment
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Doctor Who: The King's Demons
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
A Fix with Sontarans
The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
Davros Connections
Trials and Tribulations
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
Come in Number Five
Earthshocked
Chain Reaction
Driven to Distractation
Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani'
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (documentary)
Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'