Christopher H. Bidmead, who wrote three Doctor Who television serials and their novelisations, died on 6 August 2025. Bidmead was also script editor for Doctor Who Season 18. Christopher Hamilton Bidmead was born on 18 January 1941 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Raised in Chiswick, London, he developed twin passions for acting and science during his … >
Doctor Who Magazine celebrates fifty years of the Fourth Doctor with an 84-page special edition packed with all-new features, interviews, infographics and fiction. June marks the 50th anniversary of the Fourth Doctor’s first appearance. “Tom Baker made such an extraordinary impact that, to some people, he will always be the Doctor,” says editor Marcus Hearn. … >
Christopher Hamilton Bidmead became script editor of Doctor Who in late 1979, brought onboard by new Producer John Nathan-Turner. Bidmead had been an actor, scriptwriter and journalist, and was recommended to JNT by Robert Banks-Stewart (who had written for the show in the mid-Seventies). He inherited a situation where JNT and Executive Producer Barry Letts … >