Chris Boucher

Chris Boucher
Birth date:	15 February 1943
Death date:	11 December 2022
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer, created Leela
Stories:	See credits section
Main time period active:	1977-1978
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Blake's 7 (script editor) and created Star Cops
IMDb profile

Chris Boucher (15 February 1943-11 December 2022) was an important contributor to the Fourth Doctor era of Doctor Who.

He penned three stories and was responsible for the creation of the companion Leela, whose name he derived from freedom fighter Leila Khaled. (DCOM: The Robots of Death)

The Kaldor City audio series is based on characters and locations from Boucher's Doctor Who and Blake's 7 stories. He was creative consultant on the series and wrote the second release, Death's Head.

Until his death, he was the last surviving Doctor Who television writer to have written for the series in the 1970s.

Bibliography

Doctor Who TV stories

• The Face of Evil
• The Robots of Death
• Image of the Fendahl

Doctor Who novels

• Last Man Running
• Corpse Marker
• Psi-ence Fiction
• Match of the Day

Kaldor City audio series

• Death's Head

External links

• Chris Boucher at the Internet Movie Database
• 1992 Interview with Chris Boucher - Kaldor City
• 2005 Interview with Chris Boucher - Kaldor City