Kit Pedler

Kit Pedler
Other names:	Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler
Birth date:	11 June 1927
Death date:	27 May 1981
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Scientific advisor, Writer
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 the co-creator of the Cybermen with Gerry Davis.

According to the documentary Cybermen: The Early Years, he also co-wrote The Moonbase with Davis, but was uncredited due to BBC policy at the time.

Career

Pedler and Davis also created and wrote Doomwatch.

DWU Credits

Doctor Who TV stories

• The Tenth Planet (with Gerry Davis)
• The Moonbase
• The Tomb of the Cybermen (with Gerry Davis)

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