Kit Pedler

Dr Kit Pedler
Birth date:	11 June 1927
Death date:	27 May 1981
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Scientific Adviser, Writer and co-created the Cybermen
Stories:	See credits section
Main time period active:	1966-1968
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	co-created Doomwatch
IMDb profile

Kit Pedler (Dr Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler) (11 June 1927-27 May 1981) was a medical scientist, science writer and science fiction writer. He was brought into Doctor Who in the mid 1960s by Innes Lloyd to bring some "hard science" into the show. He is perhaps best known for co-creating the Cybermen with Gerry Davis. Pedler and Davis also created and wrote Doomwatch.

Bibliography

Doctor Who TV stories

• The Tenth Planet
• The Moonbase
• The Tomb of the Cybermen

Doctor Who contributions

• The War Machines (written by Ian Stuart Black)
• The Wheel in Space (written by David Whitaker)
• The Invasion (written by Derrick Sherwin)

External links

• Kit Pedler at the Internet Movie Database