Robert Holmes (scriptwriter)

Robert Holmes
Holmes in an image from a documentary on the DVD release of The Two Doctors
Born
Robert Colin Holmes

(1926-04-02)2 April 1926
Tring, Hertfordshire, England
Died24 May 1986(1986-05-24) (aged 60)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Occupation(s)Television scriptwriter, script editor
Known forDoctor Who

Robert Colin Holmes (2 April 1926 – 24 May 1986) was a British television scriptwriter. For over 25 years, he contributed to some of the most popular programmes screened in the UK. He is particularly remembered for his work on science fiction programmes, most notably his extensive contributions to Doctor Who,[1][2] which included working as its script editor from 1974 to 1977.[3]

Holmes suffered ill health from the early 1980s. He died in May 1986 while working on scripts for the second and final Sixth Doctor season The Trial of a Time Lord; his last serial as sole writer, The Mysterious Planet, and The Ultimate Foe, of which he only wrote the first part (the second being completed by Pip and Jane Baker), were released posthumously between September and December 1986.

  1. ^ Debnath, Neela (21 September 2013). "Review of Doctor Who 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' (Series 14)". The Independent.
  2. ^ Lofficier, J Doctor Who: The Terrestrial Index 1991 Target 0-426-20361-5
  3. ^ David J. Howe; Mark Stammers; Stephen Walker (1994). Doctor Who: The Seventies. Dr Who. p. 30. ISBN 978-1852274443.