Dave Martin (screenwriter)

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Dave Ralph Martin (born in Birmingham, England, January 1, 1935 – March 30, 2007) was an accomplished television and film writer.

He contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979 including:

• The Claws of Axos (1971)
• The Mutants (1972)
• The Three Doctors (1973)
• The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
• The Hand of Fear (1976)
• The Invisible Enemy (1977)
• Underworld (1978)
• The Armageddon Factor (1979)

For all of these, Martin collaborated with Bob Baker. Together they were nicknamed "The Bristol Boys" by the Doctor Who production teams with whom they worked.

Baker and Martin's most notable contributions to the Doctor Who mythos were probably the robot computer K-9 (created for The Invisible Enemy) and the renegade Time Lord Omega (created for The Three Doctors, Doctor Who's tenth anniversary story).

They also worked together on the 1975 children's science fantasy television serial Sky and Into the Labyrinth.

Martin died in 2007, after being diagnosed with cancer earlier that same year.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ David Martin - Classic series writer passes away. (published and accessed 12 April 2007)