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Career

At seventeen-years-old, Smith achieved his ambition to write for ''

'' with '' Full Circle'', the third serial of the 18th season. Working titles for this story included ''The Planet That Slept''. It broadcast in four weekly parts on

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from 25 October to 15 November 1980. A novelisation of this serial, written by Smith, was published by Target Books in September 1982. After limited success in television, Smith left the industry and joined the police. Decades later, he would return to ''Doctor Who'', becoming a regular writer for

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. In addition to ''Doctor Who'', Smith's other audio dramas would include ''Survivors'', based on the 1970s BBC television series; ''

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'', based on the cult 1987 TV series created by Chris Boucher, and their Originals boxset, ''Transference'', starring Alex Kingston.

Credits

Television

*'' Full Circle''

Big Finish

Doctor Who main range

* The Brood of Erys * Mistfall * The Star Men * Hour of the Cybermen * Emissary of the Daleks

Lost Stories

* The First Sontarans

Fourth Doctor Adventures

* The Movellan Grave * The Sons of Kaldor * The Sinestran Kill * The Quest of the Engineer

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

* The Sontaran Ordeal

The War Doctor

* The Eternity Cage * The Lady of Obsidian

The First Doctor Adventures

* The Barbarians and the Samurai * Return to Skaro

Early Adventures

* Domain of the Voord

Third Doctor Adventures

* Storm of the Horofax

Destiny of the Doctor

* Vengeance of the Stones

Companion Chronicles

* The Invasion of E-Space

Short Trips

* Flashpoint

UNIT: The New Series

* Earthfall (Extinction) * Bridgehead (Extinction) * Death in Geneva (Shutdown) * The Battle of the Tower (Shutdown) * The Sontaran Project (Encounters)

The Robots

* Toos and Poul

Survivors

* Judges * Rescue * The Second Coming * Come the Horsemen * Lockup * Conflict

Blake's 7

* Battleground * The Liberator Chronicles Vol.10: Retribution * The Liberator Chronicles Vol.11: Escape From Destiny

Star Cops

* One of Our Cops is Missing * Hostage * The New World

Big Finish Originals

* Transference

Timeslip

* Volume 1: The Age of the Death Lottery

Space 1999

* Goldilocks

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Andrew Living people 21st-century British male writers British television writers British male screenwriters British science fiction writers Scottish television writers Scottish dramatists and playwrights British male television writers 1962 births