The Second Doctor meets the legendary Yeti in the Himalayas, in a new edition of a Doctor Who classic
The Second Doctor meets the legendary Yeti in the Himalayas, in a new edition of a Doctor Who classic
Terrance Dicks worked together with Malcolm Hulke on scripts for
The Avengers as well as other series before becoming Assistant, and
later full Script Editor of Doctor Who from 1968. Dicks worked on
the entirety of the Jon Pertwee Third Doctor era of the programme,
and returned as a writer - scripting Tom Baker's first story as the
Fourth Doctor- Robot. His later script writing credits on Doctor
Who included the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors. Terrance
Dicks novelised many of the original Doctor Who stories for Target
books, and has written original Doctor Who novels for BBC
Books.
Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln worked together on scripts for
various TV series in the 1960s, including Doctor Finlay's Casebook,
Emergency Ward 10, and Doctor Who. Two of their Doctor Who scripts
featured the Yeti - servants of an alien intelligence - which
proved very popular and memorable. Haisman, who had previously been
an actor, and managed a theatre company, continued to write
television during the 1970s and 1980s. Lincoln, who had also been
an actor under his real name of Henry Soskin, co-authored the book
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
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