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David Fisher (writer)
David Fisher (13 April 1929 – 10 January 2018) was a British television screenwriter. He is best known for writing four ''Doctor Who'' serials when it starred Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. Career ''Doctor Who'' script editor Anthony Read commissioned Fisher to write ''The Stones of Blood'' (1978) and ''The Androids of Tara'' (1978) for ''The Key to Time'' storyline of Doctor Who (season 16), season 16, and he was subsequently commissioned to write ''The Creature from the Pit'' (1979) for the Doctor Who (season 17), seventeenth season during the tenure of Douglas Adams as script editor. He worked on a story called "A Gamble with Time", also for the seventeenth season, but owing to the divorce proceedings ending his first marriage, he was unable to finish the scripts. That story was reworked and completed by Douglas Adams and then-producer Graham Williams (television producer), Graham Williams, and was recorded and broadcast as ''City of Death'' (1979) under the pseudonym of Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Terminology In the silent era, writers now considered screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist and screen playwright.Steven Maras. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice.'' Wallflower Press, 2009. pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown and argues that they cannot be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
