Christopher H. Bidmead

Christopher H. Bidmead
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Script editor, Writer
Stories:	See below
Main time period active:	1980-1983, 2007, 2010

Christopher Hamilton Bidmead wrote three Doctor Who TV serials, all of which he also novelised. He was also script editor for season 18.

He was attached (agreed, but without a contract) to write several serials that were ultimately cancelled. They were In the Hollows of Time, a two-part (forty-five minute) story for the cancelled season 23, and a four parter, Pinacotheca (a.k.a. The Last Adventure), which would have been the third part of the The Trial of a Time Lord arc.

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

Credits

Television stories

• Logopolis (and novelisation)
• Castrovalva (and novelisation)
• Frontios (and novelisation)

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

• Renaissance of the Daleks (credited as "Based on a story by Christopher H. Bidmead")
• The Hollows of Time

Audiobook Readings

• Logopolis
• Frontios

Contributions to the mythos

Major characters and concepts created for or debuting in a Christopher H. Bidmead script include:

• Fifth Doctor
• Tegan Jovanka
• The TARDIS' Cloister Room, Cloister Bell and Zero Room.
• The concept of a regeneration going wrong to the point of possibly failing (a plot development repeated with later incarnations).
• The concept of an "in-between" Doctor, in this case the Watcher (later, arguably, the Valeyard fit into this category, too).

External links

• Christopher H. Bidmead at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account