Quest for pedler
Subtitle: the life and ideas of Dr Kit Pedler
By: Michael Seely
Publisher: Miwk Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Surrey, Great Britain
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781908630353
Subjects: Ophthalmology; Science fiction; Ophthalmologists; Television
Notes: "For many people, Kit Pedler is best remembered as the man who created the Cybermen for Doctor Who, a real life scientist at the time specialising in opthalmology who was brought in to act as an advisor and bring some science to the fiction. Together with his friend and writing partner Gerry Davis, he created the hugely successful and controversial BBC1 drama series Doomwatch, which captured this fear and frightened the adults as much as the Cybermen scared the children. Doomwatch changed his life and launched him as a prophet of doom, whose stories uncannily predicted real life ecological accidents and disasters and became a much sought after pundit in the press and on television. With contributions from his family, friends, colleagues and critics, this book tells the story behind a fascinating, charismatic, complicated, demanding human being; a natural teacher who didn't just want to pontificate about the problems facing the world in a television or radio studio, but actually do something practical about them."--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-492).