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Marc Platt (born 1953^[1]) wrote several Doctor Who novels, the TV story Ghost Light and many audio stories for Big Finish Productions.

Platt was "in love" with Doctor Who "from 23 November 1963" and had a "total obsession" with the show. He loved William Hartnell's portrayal of the First Doctor but thought of Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor as his Doctor. In 2014, he said that in the then-recently rediscovered stories The Web of Fear and The Enemy of the World, Troughton was "absolutely wonderful". (DWM 476)

Platt continued to watch the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker eras of the show by bringing a portable television into work. While he held "slightly less affection" for the Pertwee era than the earlier eras, and thought of Pertwee as "very different", he thought that the show "didn't lose its magic at all". He also "liked early Tom Baker very much". He felt that a few seasons prior to him joining as a writer, the show had been "down to the depths" and "aimless and [...] suffered from shallowness", but thought that after Andrew Cartmel joined as script editor, "it was well on the mend" and that Cartmel "had the vision to put it back on track". (DWM 476)

Platt wasn't a fan of the 21st century series' 45-minute format. He believed that after the show returned in 2005, "it had a lot of potential but the stories were too short. They had a lot more two-parters back then, but they seem to have been abandoned in favour of story arcs across the season, which become too convoluted and tangled." He thought that the modern producers and writers "[s]ometimes [... got] it right, but mostly they're just desperately piling so much stuff in" and that the show was "Doctor Who-light" and "too fast and superficial sometimes". Nonetheless, Platt did enjoy some of the individual modern stories. He "really liked" The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit for "getting back to the original style", while according to Platt, The Doctor's Wife was "extraordinary", "fresh", "really had some depth" and "was really made with love". (DWM 476)

He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Marc Platt in the 1980s. (DOC: Doctor Who: Endgame)

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ghost Light

Direct-to-video[[edit] | [edit source]]

Downtime
Dæmos Rising (Script Consultant)

Novels[[edit] | [edit source]]

Target Novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ghost Light
Battlefield

Virgin New Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Virgin Missing Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Downtime (novelisation of the video)

Short stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Yearbook[[edit] | [edit source]]

Comic strips[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Magazine[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cat Litter

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]

Loups-Garoux (in which he also voiced a tourist)
Spare Parts
Valhalla
Time Reef
Paper Cuts
The Cradle of the Snake
The Silver Turk
The Butcher of Brisbane
Eldrad Must Die!
Planet of the Rani
The Behemoth

Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Lost Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Point of Entry (adapted from script by Barbara Clegg)
Thin Ice
The Children of Seth (adapted from script by Christopher Bailey)

The Fourth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Skin of the Sleek / The Thief Who Stole Time
Purgatory 12

Philip Hinchcliffe Presents[[edit] | [edit source]]

Philip Hinchcliffe Presents (with Philip Hinchcliffe)
- The Ghosts of Gralstead
- The Devil's Armada
The Genesis Chamber (with Philip Hinchcliffe)
The Helm of Awe (with Philip Hinchcliffe)
The God of Phantoms (with Philip Hinchcliffe)

The Eighth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doom Coalition[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Galileo Trap
The Gift

Third Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Tyrants of Logic

The First Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Phoenicians

The Early Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor's Tale

The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Unbound[[edit] | [edit source]]

Auld Mortality
A Storm of Angels

Jago and Litefoot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Case of the Gluttonous Guru

Other[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who script books[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ghost Light (scriptbook)

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

↑ Doctor Who Guide

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

[1] Doctor Who Guide

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-[[File:Marc_Platt.jpg|thumb|Marc Plat in the 80s. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Endgame]]'')]]
+{{Infobox Person
-'''Marc Platt''' wrote several ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novels and the TV story ''[[Ghost Light]]''.
+| image         = Marc Platt 2.jpg
+| job title     = [[Writer]]
+| birth date    = [[1953 (people)|1953]]
+| death date    =
+| story         = [[#Credits|See credits section]]
+| time          = 1989-97, 2001-21
+| non dwu       = ''Blake's 7'', ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'', ''Dan Dare'', ''The Time Machine'', ''Timeslip''
+| imdb          = 0686886
+}}{{you may|Marc Platt (in-universe)|n1=his in-universe counterpart}}
+'''Marc Platt''' (born [[1953 (people)|1953]]<ref>[http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/person.php?name=MarcPlatt Doctor Who Guide]</ref>) wrote several ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novels, the TV story ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'' and many audio stories for [[Big Finish Productions]].
-Platt was "in love" with ''Doctor Who'' "from 23 November 1963" and had a "total obsession" with the show. He loved [[William Hartnell]]'s portrayal of the [[First Doctor]] but thought of [[Patrick Troughton]]'s [[Second Doctor]] as his [[The Doctor|Doctor]]. In 2014, he said that in the then-recently rediscovered stories ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'' and ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'', Troughton was "absolutely wonderful" in them. ([[DWM 476]])
+Platt was "in love" with ''Doctor Who'' "from 23 November 1963" and had a "total obsession" with the show. He loved [[William Hartnell]]'s portrayal of the [[First Doctor]] but thought of [[Patrick Troughton]]'s [[Second Doctor]] as his [[The Doctor|Doctor]]. In 2014, he said that in the then-recently rediscovered stories ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'' and ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'', Troughton was "absolutely wonderful". ([[DWM 476]])
 Platt continued to watch the [[Jon Pertwee]] and [[Tom Baker]] eras of the show by bringing a portable television into work. While he held "slightly less affection" for the Pertwee era than the earlier eras, and thought of Pertwee as "very different", he thought that the show "didn't lose its magic at all". He also "liked early Tom Baker very much". He felt that a few seasons prior to him joining as a writer, the show had been "down to the depths" and "aimless and [...] suffered from shallowness", but thought that after [[Andrew Cartmel]] joined as [[script editor]], "it was well on the mend" and that Cartmel "had the vision to put it back on track". ([[DWM 476]])
-Platt wasn't a fan of the 21st century series' 42-minute format. He believed that after the show returned in 2005, "it had a lot of potential but the stories were too short. They had a lot more two-parters back then, but they seem to have been abandoned in favour of story arcs across the season, which become too convoluted and tangled." He thought that the modern producers and writers "[s]ometimes [... got] it right, but mostly they're just desperately piling so much stuff in" and that the show was "''Doctor Who''-light" and "too fast and superficial sometimes". Nonetheless, Platt did enjoy some of the individual modern stories. He "really liked" ''[[The Impossible Planet (TV story)|The Impossible Planet]]'' and ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'' for "getting back to the original style", while according to Platt, ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' was "extraordinary", "fresh", "really had some depth" and "was really made with love". ([[DWM 476]])
+Platt wasn't a fan of the 21st century series' 45-minute format. He believed that after the show returned in 2005, "it had a lot of potential but the stories were too short. They had a lot more two-parters back then, but they seem to have been abandoned in favour of story arcs across the season, which become too convoluted and tangled." He thought that the modern producers and writers "[s]ometimes [... got] it right, but mostly they're just desperately piling so much stuff in" and that the show was "''Doctor Who''-light" and "too fast and superficial sometimes". Nonetheless, Platt did enjoy some of the individual modern stories. He "really liked" ''[[The Impossible Planet (TV story)|The Impossible Planet]]'' and ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'' for "getting back to the original style", while according to Platt, ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' was "extraordinary", "fresh", "really had some depth" and "was really made with love". ([[DWM 476]])
-== Bibliography ==
+He also contributed to the charity reference book ''[[Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who]]''.
+== Credits ==
+[[File:Marc_Platt.jpg|thumb|Marc Platt in the 1980s. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Endgame]]'')]]
 === Television ===
-==== ''Doctor Who'' ====
+==== Doctor Who ====
-* ''[[Ghost Light]]''
+* ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]''
 === Direct-to-video ===
-* ''[[Downtime]]''
+* ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]] ''
+* ''[[Dæmos Rising (home video)|Dæmos Rising]]'' (Script Consultant)
-=== Prose ===
+=== Novels ===
-==== Novels and novelisations ====
+==== Target Novelisations ====
-===== Virgin New Adventures =====
+* ''[[Ghost Light (novelisation)|Ghost Light]]''
-* ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]''
+* ''[[Battlefield (novelisation)|Battlefield]]''
-* ''[[Lungbarrow]]''
-===== Virgin Missing Adventures =====
+==== Virgin New Adventures ====
+* ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]''
+* ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]''
+==== Virgin Missing Adventures ====
 * ''[[Downtime (novelisation)|Downtime]]'' (novelisation of the video)
-==== Target Books ====
+=== Short stories ===
-* ''[[Ghost Light (novelisation)|Doctor Who — Ghost Light]]'' (novelisation of his own script)
+==== Doctor Who Yearbook ====
-* ''[[Battlefield (novelisation)|Doctor Who — Battlefield]]'' (novelisation of the script by [[Ben Aaronovitch]])
+* ''[[Future Imperfect (short story)|Future Imperfect]]''
+* ''[[Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat (short story)|Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat]]''
+* ''[[Loop the Loup (short story)|Loop the Loup]]''
+==== Virgin Decalogs ====
+* ''[[The Duke of Dominoes (short story)|The Duke of Dominoes]]''
+==== Short Trips ====
+* ''[[Whiskey and Water (short story)|Whiskey and Water]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors]]'')
+* ''[[The Ruins of Heaven (short story)|The Ruins of Heaven]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: Steel Skies]]'')
+* ''[[Last Rites (short story)|Last Rites]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: Monsters]]'')
+* ''[[Outsourcing (short story)|Outsourcing]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: 2040]]'')
+* ''[[Christmas Special (ST short story)|Christmas Special]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury]]'')
+* ''[[The Innocents (short story)|The Innocents]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: The History of Christmas]]'')
+* ''[[The Hunting of the Slook (short story)|The Hunting of the Slook]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: Time Signature]]'')
+==== Bernice Summerfield Short Stories ====
+* ''[[The Ship of Painted Shadows (short story)|The Ship of Painted Shadows]]'' (in ''[[Old Friends (anthology)|Old Friends]]'')
-==== Short stories ====
+==== ''The Doctor: His Lives and Times'' ====
-* ''[[Future Imperfect]]''
+* ''[[Extract from London's Greatest Ghosts (short story)|Extract from London's Greatest Ghosts]]''
-* ''[[The Duke of Dominoes]]''
-* ''[[Whiskey and Water]]''
-* ''[[The Ruins of Heaven]]''
-* ''[[Last Rites (short story)|Last Rites]]''
-* ''[[Outsourcing]]''
-* ''[[Christmas Special (short story)|Christmas Special]]''
-* ''[[The Innocents]]''
-* ''[[The Hunting of the Slook]]''
-=== Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories ===
+==== The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who ====
-* ''[[Loups-Garoux]]'' (in which he also voiced a tourist)
+* ''[[The Arboreals (short story)|The Arboreals]]''
-* ''[[Spare Parts]]''
+=== Comic strips ===
+==== Doctor Who Magazine ====
+* ''[[Cat Litter (comic story)|Cat Litter]]''
+=== Audio ===
+==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
+* ''[[Loups-Garoux (audio story)|Loups-Garoux]]'' (in which he also voiced a tourist)
+* ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]''
 * ''[[Valhalla (audio story)|Valhalla]]''
-* ''[[The Skull of Sobek]]''
+* ''[[Time Reef (audio story)|Time Reef]]''
-* ''[[Time Reef]]''
+* ''[[Paper Cuts (audio story)|Paper Cuts]]''
-* ''[[The Three Companions]]''
+* ''[[The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)|The Cradle of the Snake]]''
-* ''[[Paper Cuts]]''
-* ''[[An Earthly Child]]''
-* ''[[The Cradle of the Snake]]''
 * ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]''
 * ''[[The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)|The Butcher of Brisbane]]''
 * ''[[Eldrad Must Die! (audio story)|Eldrad Must Die!]]''
-* ''[[Philip Hinchcliffe Presents (audio anthology)|Philip Hinchcliffe Presents]]'' (adapted from scripts by [[Philip Hinchcliffe]])
+* ''[[Planet of the Rani (audio story)|Planet of the Rani]]''
+* ''[[The Behemoth (audio story)|The Behemoth]]''
+==== Special Releases ====
+* ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]''
+* ''[[Night of the Stormcrow (audio story)|Night of the Stormcrow]]''
+==== The Lost Stories ====
+* ''[[Point of Entry (audio story)|Point of Entry]]'' (adapted from script by [[Barbara Clegg]])
+* ''[[Thin Ice (audio story)|Thin Ice]]''
+* ''[[The Children of Seth (audio story)|The Children of Seth]]'' (adapted from script by [[Christopher Bailey]])
+==== The Fourth Doctor Adventures ====
+* ''[[The Skin of the Sleek (audio story)|The Skin of the Sleek]]'' / '' [[The Thief Who Stole Time (audio story)|The Thief Who Stole Time]]''
+* ''[[Purgatory 12 (audio story)|Purgatory 12]]''
+==== Philip Hinchcliffe Presents ====
+* ''[[Philip Hinchcliffe Presents (audio anthology)|Philip Hinchcliffe Presents]]'' (with [[Philip Hinchcliffe]])
 ** ''[[The Ghosts of Gralstead (audio story)|The Ghosts of Gralstead]]''
 ** ''[[The Devil's Armada (audio story)|The Devil's Armada]]''
+* ''[[The Genesis Chamber (audio story)|The Genesis Chamber]]'' (with Philip Hinchcliffe)
+* ''[[The Helm of Awe (audio story)|The Helm of Awe]]'' (with Philip Hinchcliffe)
+* ''[[The God of Phantoms (audio story)|The God of Phantoms]]'' (with Philip Hinchcliffe)
+==== The Eighth Doctor Adventures ====
+* ''[[The Skull of Sobek (audio story)|The Skull of Sobek]]''
+* ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]''
+==== Doom Coalition ====
+* ''[[The Galileo Trap (audio story)|The Galileo Trap]]''
+* ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]''
+==== Third Doctor Adventures ====
+* ''[[The Tyrants of Logic (audio story)|The Tyrants of Logic]]''
+==== The First Doctor Adventures ====
+* ''[[The Phoenicians (audio story)|The Phoenicians]]''
-==== Doctor Who Unbound ====
+==== The Early Adventures ====
-* ''[[Auld Mortality]]''
+* ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]''
-* ''[[A Storm of Angels]]''
 ==== The Companion Chronicles ====
 * ''[[Frostfire (audio story)|Frostfire]]''
-* ''[[Mother Russia]]''
+* ''[[Mother Russia (audio story)|Mother Russia]]''
-* ''[[The Doll of Death]]''
+* ''[[The Doll of Death (audio story)|The Doll of Death]]''
+* ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]''
 * ''[[Quinnis (audio story)|Quinnis]]''
 * ''[[The Flames of Cadiz (audio story)|The Flames of Cadiz]]''
 * ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]''
+==== Doctor Who Unbound ====
+* ''[[Auld Mortality (audio story)|Auld Mortality]]''
+* ''[[A Storm of Angels (audio story)|A Storm of Angels]]''
+==== Jago and Litefoot ====
+* ''[[The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)|The Case of the Gluttonous Guru]]''
 === Other ===
 ==== Doctor Who script books ====
 * ''[[Doctor Who The Scripts: Ghost Light|Ghost Light]]'' (scriptbook)
+== Footnotes ==
+{{reflist}}
 == External links ==
-{{imdb name|id=0686886|name=Marc Platt}}
+{{imdb name|id=0686886}}
-* {{On target|authors/plat/platt.htm|Marc Platt}}
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091023092510/http://www.outpostskaro.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124:the-marc-platt-interview&catid=62:interviews&Itemid=98 The Marc Platt Interview: In conversation with Eddie]
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+[[Category:Bernice Summerfield short story writers]]
+[[Category:Comic writers]]
+[[Category:Main Range voice actors]]
+[[Category:Main Range writers]]
+[[Category:The Companion Chronicles writers]]
+[[Category:Doom Coalition writers]]
+[[Category:Fourth Doctor Adventures writers]]
+[[Category:Eighth Doctor Adventures writers]]
+[[Category:Jago & Litefoot writers]]
+[[Category:Bonus Releases writers]]
+[[Category:Doctor Who Unbound writers]]
+[[Category:The Early Adventures writers]]
+[[Category:The Lost Stories writers]]
+[[Category:The Third Doctor Adventures writers]]
+[[Category:The First Doctor Adventures writers]]
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