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'''Dave Martin''' ([[1 January (people)|1 January]] [[1935 (people)|1935]]-[[30 March (people)|30 March]] [[2007 (people)|2007]]<ref>[[TCH 16]]</ref>) was an accomplished television and film writer. | '''Dave Martin''' ([[1 January (people)|1 January]] [[1935 (people)|1935]]-[[30 March (people)|30 March]] [[2007 (people)|2007]]<ref>[[TCH 16]]</ref>) was an accomplished television and film writer. | ||
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Dave Martin (1 January 1935-30 March 2007[1]) was an accomplished television and film writer.
He contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979, all with writing collactorator Bob Baker. Together they were nicknamed "the Bristol Boys" by the Doctor Who production teams with whom they worked.
Baker and Martin's most notable contributions to the Doctor Who mythos were probably the robot dog K9 (created for The Invisible Enemy) and the renegade Time Lord Omega (created for Doctor Who's tenth anniversary story, The Three Doctors).
Career
Outside of Doctor Who, Dave had collaborated with Bob on the 1975 children's science fantasy television serials Sky and Into the Labyrinth.
Death
Martin died on 30 March 2007. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier in the year.
DWU credits
Television
- The Claws of Axos
- The Mutants
- The Three Doctors
- The Sontaran Experiment
- The Hand of Fear
- The Invisible Enemy
- Underworld
- The Armageddon Factor
