Eric Saward
Eric Saward (born 9 December 1944) is a British radio scriptwriter who worked as a screenwriter and script editor on the BBC's science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1982 to 1986. He wrote the stories The Visitation, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks. Saward's career as a scriptwriter began with drama for radio while he was working as a teacher. Later he was able to cross into full-time writing. He was approached by then Doctor Who script editor Christopher H. Bidmead to submit some ideas to the series on the strength of a recommendation from the senior drama script editor at BBC Radio. He received a commission to write the story The Visitation. This in turn led to his appointment as script editor on the recommendation of Antony Root, who had briefly replaced Bidmead.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams as Self
- 2022 · La Fiesta del Mal (The Feast of Evil) as Self
- 2019 · Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner as Himself
- 2019 · The Writers' Room: The Missing Season 23? as Self
- 2019 · The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years as
- 2018 · Days of Wrath: The Making of 'Four to Doomsday' as Self
- 2018 · Double Trouble - The Making of Black Orchid as Self
- 2018 · Turbulence: Making of Time-Flight as Self
- 2018 · Earthshocked as
- 2012 · Nice or Nasty? The Making of Vengeance on Varos as Self
- 2011 · Return to Little Hodcombe as Self
- 2011 · Driven to Distractation as
- 2011 · Come in Number Five as
- 2011 · Dream Time: The Making of Kinda as Self
- 2011 · Peter Grimwade: Directing with Attitude... as Self
- 2011 · Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance' as
- 2010 · Chain Reaction as
- 2010 · Kamelion: Metal Man as Self
- 2009 · Who Wants to Live Forever? as Self
- 2009 · The Cold War as Self
- 2008 · Trials and Tribulations as
- 2008 · The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord as
- 2008 · The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Four, The Ultimate Foe as Self
- 2008 · The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord: Part One, Mysterious Planet as Self
- 2008 · The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Three, Terror of the Vervoids as Self
- 2008 · The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Two, Mindwarp as Self
- 2007 · Davros Connections as
- 2007 · Anti-Matter from Amsterdam as Self
- 2007 · The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as
- 2007 · The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as Self
- 2006 · Built for War: The Sontaran Story as
- 2006 · Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani' as
- 2006 · The Dalek Tapes as Self
- 2005 · Revelation Exhumed as Self
- 2005 · Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction as
- 2004 · Writing a Final Visitation as Self
- 2003 · Behind the Sofa: Robert Holmes and Doctor Who as Self
- 2003 · Putting the Shock into Earthshock as Self
- 2002 · Resurrection of the Daleks: On Location as Self
- 1993 · 30 Years in the TARDIS as Himself