The Fourth Doctor must save the last survivors of humanity from an alien creature, in a new edition of a Doctor Who classic
Ian Marter is best remembered by Doctor Who fans as the actor who
played the Fourth Doctor's companion Harry Sullivan. In fact, his
first role in Doctor Who came a couple of years earlier when he
played the character of Andrews in 'Carnival of Monsters'. Marter
worked with his friend Tom Baker on ideas for a possible Doctor Who
film, and together they developed a script. Though the film was
never made, Marter continued to write and novelised nine Doctor Who
adventures for Target books. Ian Marter died in 1986.
Robert Holmes, the original script writer of 'Ark in Space', served
with distinction in the army and also in the police before becoming
a journalist and television writer. Holmes went on to become one of
the Doctor Who's most prolific writers. He took over as script
sditor of Doctor Who in 1974 during one of the programme's most
successful periods at the start of the Fourth Doctor's era, and
established a background and society for the Time Lords that has
endured to this day. Robert Holmes wrote for many other series
including Doomwatch, Spy Trap, Dixon of Dock Green, Blake's 7 and
many others. Holmes died in 1986, while working on the final
episodes of the Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time Lord.
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