Christopher H. Bidmead

Christopher H. (Hamilton) Bidmead (born 18 January 1941) is a British writer and journalist who wrote several Doctor Who TV serials, all of which he also novelised. He was also script editor for Season 18.

Christopher H Bidmead as he appeared in DOC: All Aboard the Starliner.

He was attached (agreed, but without a contract) to write several serials that were ultimatelly 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.

Bibliography

• Logopolis
• Castrovalva
• Frontios
• Renaissance of the Daleks
• The Hollows of Time

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).

Notes

External links

• Christopher H. Bidmead at the Internet Movie Database