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Revision as of 12:24, 27 June 2021
Donald Henry Cotton[2] (26 April 1928[3]-28 December 1999[4]) wrote the Doctor Who television stories The Myth Makers and The Gunfighters. He also wrote the Target Books novelisations of these two stories, as well as The Romans.
He worked on a third Doctor Who storyline in 1966, titled The Herdsmen of Aquarius. This was rejected by producer Innes Lloyd and script editor Gerry Davis as it did not fit with their vision for the show.[5]
Outside of Doctor Who, Cotton wrote extensively for BBC radio, and by several accounts it was his prestige that attracted big-name Shakespearean actors such as Max Adrian and Barrie Ingham to The Myth Makers.[6][7] Many of his radio plays concerned Greek mythology.
