Doctor Who: Adventures In History

Donald Cotton contributed two scripts to Doctor Who: The Myth Makers and The Gunfighters. After helping to develop the BBC series Adam Adamant Lives!, he decided to concentrate on theatre, and was a successful playwright and actor throughout the Sixties and Seventies. He retired from acting in 1981, but continued his writing career into the Eighties. He novelised his Doctor Who scripts for Target books, as well as Dennis Spooner’s The Romans. Donald Cotton died in January 2000.
John Lucarotti wrote three scripts for Doctor Who - Marco Polo, The Aztecs and The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve - and penned the novelisations of all his scripts for Target books. He contributed the first 'Brief Encounter' short story for Doctor Who Magazine in 1990, in which the author met the First Doctor in a French bar. The story was reprinted in the 1992 Doctor Who Yearbook. John Lucarotti died in Paris on 20 November 1994.
Elwyn Jones was a screenwriter and author who is probably best known as co-creator of the long-running police series Z Cars. In 1966, he co-wrote (with Gerry Davis) the script for the Doctor Who serial The Highlanders. Jones wrote several non-fiction books including The Ripper File and The Last Two To Hang, the story of the last two men to be hanged in Britain, which won him the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in May 1982.
Gerry Davis was an experienced television writer when he came to Doctor Who as Script Editor in 1966. Wanting to explore stories rooted more closely in real science, Davis contacted Dr Kit Pedler. The resulting collaboration resulted in several notable Doctor Who scripts, and in particular the creation of the Cybermen. Gerry Davis returned to Doctor Who in 1975 and novelised several of his and Pedler's Doctor Who stories for Target books. Gerry Davis died in 1991.