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Christopher H. Bidmead

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Christopher H. Bidmead

Born January 18, 1941 · Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK

Died August 6, 2025 · aged 84

Christopher H. Bidmead (born 18 January 1941) was an English screenwriter, script editor and journalist. He wrote three Doctor Who TV serials, all of which he also novelised and 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 23, and a f…

Known For

Doctor Who: MeglosDoctor Who: Meglos · 1980
Doctor Who: Meglos
★ 5.01980
MovieActionAdventure
On the lush planet Tigella, two opposing factions are divided over the usage of the Dodecahedron, an ancient and powerful artefact which provides the entire planet's energy. The Doctor is summoned to arbitrate the conflict, but the power-crazed Meglos intercepts the call and impersonates him in order to steal the Dodecahedron.
Doctor Who: CastrovalvaDoctor Who: Castrovalva · 1982
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
★ 7.81982
MovieDramaAdventure
The Doctor needs somewhere peaceful to recover from his traumatic regeneration. But the sanctuary of Castrovalva is not all it seems, as the Master will stop at nothing to gain his revenge over the Doctor...
Doctor Who: FrontiosDoctor Who: Frontios · 1984
Doctor Who: Frontios
★ 7.81984
MovieDramaAction
"Frontios buries its own dead", or so the saying goes. The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan are forced into landing on the remote planet of Frontios, a human colony where deaths go unaccounted for. What lies beneath the surface, dragging its victims down?
Doctor Who: Full CircleDoctor Who: Full Circle · 1980
Doctor Who: Full Circle
★ 6.61980
MovieScience FictionAdventure
On the planet Alzarius in the alternate universe of E-Space, the Doctor, Romana and K9 find survivors of a crashed starliner, strange creatures lurking in the marshes and a genetic riddle which stretches back centuries.
Doctor Who: LogopolisDoctor Who: Logopolis · 1981
Doctor Who: Logopolis
★ 7.01981
MovieScience FictionAdventure
After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe.
Doctor Who: The Keeper of TrakenDoctor Who: The Keeper of Traken · 1981
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
★ 7.41981
MovieTV MovieAdventure
The Doctor and Adric learn from the wizened Keeper of Traken that a great evil has come to his planet in the form of a Melkur - a calcified statue. The Keeper of Traken is nearing the end of his reign and seeks the Doctor's help in preventing the evil from taking control of the bioelectronic source that is the keystone of the Traken Union's civilisation.
A New BeginningA New Beginning · 2004
A New Beginning
2004
MovieDocumentary
A look at the radical changes made to Doctor Who by John Nathan-Turner for his first story as producer, which opened the programme's eighteenth year on BBC1.
Come in Number FiveCome in Number Five · 2011
Come in Number Five
2011
MovieDocumentary
A special retrospective of Peter Davison's tenure as the Fifth Doctor.

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