Dave Martin

Dave Martin as he appeared on DOC: Changing Time

Dave Martin (born on 1st January 1935 in Birmingham, England) was an accomplished television and film writer.

He contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979 including:

• The Claws of Axos (1971)
• The Mutants (1972)
• The Three Doctors (1973)
• The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
• The Hand of Fear (1976)
• The Invisible Enemy (1977)
• Underworld (1978)
• The Armageddon Factor (1979)

For all of these, Martin collaborated with 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 computer K-9 (created for The Invisible Enemy) and the renegade Time Lord Omega (created for The Three Doctors, Doctor Who's tenth anniversary story).

They also worked together on the 1975 children's science fantasy television serials Sky and Into the Labirynth.

In 1980, Dave Martin wrote all four books in The Adventures of K9 series. In 1986, he wrote two Find Your Fate novels, Search for the Doctor and Garden of Evil. All six books were written as David Martin.

Martin died on 30th March 2007. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier in the year.

Contributions to the Mythos

Major characters and concepts created for or debuting in a Bob Baker script include:

• Omega
• K-9
• Black Guardian

External links

• Outpost Gallifrey report on death of Dave Martin