![]() ![]() First published in November 1964, the book fused elements of An Unearthly Child and The Daleks and proved a surprisingly serious take on the Time Lord’s early adventures. ![]() Whitaker also wrote the very first Doctor Who novelisation – Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks. Yowzer! That’s just brilliant! They just looked amazing! You just thought wow! They can get anywhere!’ ‘In Evil of the Daleks you got to see a Dalek in a Victorian house. This classic 7-parter has been praised by current Executive Producer and Lead Writer Steven Moffat who revealed it was one of his favourite stories. He also wrote The Wheel in Space (which introduced companion Zoe) and the Daleks’ final story of the 60s, The Evil of the Daleks. His later scripts included the Second Doctor’s first adventure, The Power of the Daleks, a crucially important story where for the first time ever, viewers were confronted by a Doctor who was someone other than the familiar William Hartnell. He wrote the third adventure, The Edge of Destruction and later penned The Rescue, the first adventure to introduce a new companion since the show’s debut episode. As such, he worked closely with Anthony Coburn on the series’ opening adventure, An Unearthly Child and Terry Nation on the second story which introduced the Daleks. In this capacity he became instrumental in taking the ideas of BBC high-ups like Head of Drama Sydney Newman and moulding them into workable scripts. ![]() David Whitaker was Doctor Who’s first story editor, a role very similar to today’s script editors. ![]()
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