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| 1928 births | |
| pedler, kit | |
| 1981 deaths | |
| academics of the university of london | |
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Kit was the Head of the Electron Microscopy Department at the University Of London , where he published a number of papers. His first contribution to TV was for the BBC programme Horizon . He was also a Science Fiction writer who, in the mid 1960s , became unofficial scientific adviser to the '' Doctor Who '' production team. Hired by Innes Lloyd to inject more hard science into the stories, Pedler formed a particular writing partnership with Gerry Davis , who was story editor on the programme. Their interest in the problems of science changing and endangering human life had led them to create the Cybermen . Pedler wrote three scripts for ''Doctor Who'': '' The Tenth Planet '', '' The Moonbase '' and '' The Tomb Of The Cybermen ''. He also submitted the story outlines that became '' The War Machines '', '' The Wheel In Space '' and '' The Invasion ''. In the years between Pedler's death and his own Gerry Davis frequently stated that, although Pedler produced some strong story ideas, he was not a particularly good scriptwriter and that he, Davis, would contribute a lot to the writing, even when not credited as doing so. This is impossible to verify and production office documentation neither confirms nor denies Davis's assertions. Pedler and Davis also devised and co-wrote '' Doomwatch '', a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme which ran on BBC One for three seasons from 1970 to 1972 (thirty-seven fifty-minute episodes plus one unshown) covered a government department that worked to combat technological and environmental disasters. Pedler and Davis contributed to only the first two series. Pedler and Davis re-used the plot of the first episode of the series, ''''. He died of a Heart Attack while producing a series for TV on the paranormal. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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