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He was attached (agreed, but without a contract) to write several serials that were ultimatelly cancelled. They were In the Hollows of Time, a two-part (forty-five minute) story for the cancelled season 23, and a four parter, Pinacotheca (a.k.a. The Last Adventure), which would have been the third part of the The Trial of a Time Lord arc. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

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  • Christopher H. Bidmead ist ein britischer Autor, der mehrfach für das Doctor Who-Franchise tätig wurde.
  • He was attached (agreed, but without a contract) to write several serials that were ultimatelly cancelled. They were In the Hollows of Time, a two-part (forty-five minute) story for the cancelled season 23, and a four parter, Pinacotheca (a.k.a. The Last Adventure), which would have been the third part of the The Trial of a Time Lord arc. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
  • Christopher Hamilton Bidmead (né en 1941) est un écrivain et journaliste britannique. Il scénarisa quelques histoires pour Doctor Who et fut aussi éditeur de script pour ce dernier. Il signa l'adaptation en roman de ses trois scénarios.
  • Christopher H. Birdbrain took over as script editor from Douglas Adams at the beginning of the JNT era. JNT (and Barry Letts, who'd come back for one season to "executive produce" the transition to JNT) wanted the show to be less silly and less monster-of-the-week focused, and he loved Bidmead's idea of doing that by focusing on real serious science fiction, and teaching the kids about entropy. But then he immediately began complaining that the stories were too sciency. To be fair to JNT, the ratings did fall to 170th place, the worst in the show's history by far, but that's clearly only because of Adric, whose second episode was the lowest-rating episode the show ever had.
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  • Christopher H. Bidmead ist ein britischer Autor, der mehrfach für das Doctor Who-Franchise tätig wurde.
  • He was attached (agreed, but without a contract) to write several serials that were ultimatelly cancelled. They were In the Hollows of Time, a two-part (forty-five minute) story for the cancelled season 23, and a four parter, Pinacotheca (a.k.a. The Last Adventure), which would have been the third part of the The Trial of a Time Lord arc. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
  • Christopher H. Birdbrain took over as script editor from Douglas Adams at the beginning of the JNT era. JNT (and Barry Letts, who'd come back for one season to "executive produce" the transition to JNT) wanted the show to be less silly and less monster-of-the-week focused, and he loved Bidmead's idea of doing that by focusing on real serious science fiction, and teaching the kids about entropy. But then he immediately began complaining that the stories were too sciency. To be fair to JNT, the ratings did fall to 170th place, the worst in the show's history by far, but that's clearly only because of Adric, whose second episode was the lowest-rating episode the show ever had. Big Mead lasted only one season, leaving when Tom Baker did and handing the job to Antony Root. Saward kept trying to get him to come back and write new stories. He wrote one, which JNT loved so much that he kept asking Saward to commission sequels from Bidmead and then cancelling those sequels. The only one he didn't cancel ended up as part of the Lost Season and got canceled anyway, although at least that one eventually got Big Finished (and was the best of the original Lost Season audios). Bidmead also did a treatment for a Dalek story, which also got canceled, but ended up being fleshed out by an anonymous writer for another Big Finish audio (and was sort of decent).
  • Christopher Hamilton Bidmead (né en 1941) est un écrivain et journaliste britannique. Il scénarisa quelques histoires pour Doctor Who et fut aussi éditeur de script pour ce dernier. Il signa l'adaptation en roman de ses trois scénarios.
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