Stephen Wyatt

Stephen Wyatt
Birth date:	4 February 1948
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
Stories:	see credits section
Main time period active:	1987-1989, 2020-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Casualty, The House of Elliot, Family Affairs
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Stephen Wyatt (born 4 February 1948) wrote the Doctor Who serials Paradise Towers and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, both of which he novelised for the Target Books range.

In a talk with script editor Andrew Cartmel for Doctor Who Magazine, Wyatt admitted to being a "big fan" of William Hartnell's First Doctor and Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor, with Troughton described as Wyatt's favourite Doctor. He used to watch the show "religiously", but after he was studying for his A levels, he "sort of lost interest". The Jon Pertwee era was a "complete blank", but he saw "some" of Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor and "dipped into" The Trial of a Time Lord, which he "didn't understand a word of". (DWM 473)

The mythology of Gallifrey and the Time Lords was something which "never interested" Wyatt. Wyatt said he avoided the mythology and had "no backstory about the Doctor whatsoever" when he wrote Paradise Towers in order to go back to the essence of Doctor Who "as it was when [he] was a kid", at a point where none of the backstory to do with the Time Lords had been invented yet. (DWM 473)

Regarding the 21st century Doctor Who that he watched, Wyatt was concerned that you needed to know "a lot of the backstory to understand what you were watching". Wyatt felt this in particular after watching The Day of the Doctor, which due to him not having seen "much else of the show recently", there were "chunks" of the story he didn't understand. (DWM 473)

He later wrote the Big Finish audio story The Psychic Circus.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Paradise Towers
• The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Novels

Target Novelisations

• Paradise Towers
• The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Short stories

Build High for Happiness

• Introduction
• The Secret Life of Caretaker Number 112 Stroke 9 Subsection 7

The Wallscrawler and Other Stories

• The Wallscrawler
• Maddy's Diary
• The Secret Life of Caretaker Number 112 Stroke 9 Subsection 7 (reprint from Build High for Happiness)
• The Great Architect
• The Captain's Collection
• The Crack in the Crystal Ball

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Psychic Circus

External links

• Stephen Wyatt at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account
• Official website