Christopher H. Bidmead

Christopher H. Bidmead (born Christopher Hamilton Bidmead on 18 January 1941Doctor Who Guide) wrote three Doctor Who TV serials, all of which he also novelised. He was also script editor for season 18.
He was contracted to write several serials that were ultimately cancelled. They were In the Hollows of Time, a two-part (forty-five minute) story for the cancelled season 23Doctor Who - The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor, page 208, and a four parter, Pinacotheca (a.k.a. The Last Adventure), which would have been the third part of the The Trial of a Time Lord arcDoctor Who - The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor, page 211.
He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
With the death of Donald Tosh in 2019, he is the earliest surviving script editor for Doctor Who.
== Credits ==
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* Logopolis
* Castrovalva
* Frontios
=== Novels ===
==== Novelisations ====
* Logopolis
* Castrovalva
* Frontios
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* Renaissance of the Daleks (credited as "Based on a story by Christopher H. Bidmead")
==== The Lost Stories ====
* The Hollows of Time
=== Audiobook Readings ===
* Logopolis
* Frontios
== Contributions to the mythos ==
Major characters and concepts created for or debuting in a Christopher H. Bidmead script include:
* The Fifth Doctor
* Tegan Jovanka
* The TARDIS' Cloister Room, Cloister Bell and Zero Room.
* The concept of a regeneration going wrong to the point of possibly failing (a plot development repeated with later incarnations).
* The concept of an "in-between" Doctor, in this case the Watcher (later, arguably, the Valeyard fits into this category, too).
* Tractators
== Documentary ==
* Being Nice to Each Other
* Time Trap: The Making of Castrovalva
* Showman - The Life of John Nathan-Turner
to be completed
== Audio commentary ==
to be added
== Footnotes ==
== External links ==
Category:Doctor Who television writers
Category:Doctor Who script editors
Category:BBC Audio audiobook readers
Category:Doctor Who novelisation writers
Category:The Lost Stories writers
Category:Writers interviewed on Toby Hadoke's Who's Round
Category:Behind the Sofa contributors
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