
Writing
Dave Martin
Born 1935-01-01
David Ralph Martin (1 January 1935 – 30 March 2007) was an English television and film writer. He was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, and attended Handsworth Grammar School.
Acting credits
6.0A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.
Machinegunner
1976
NRA retrospective documentary looking at Graham Williams' three-year tenure as Doctor Who producer.
A Matter of Time
2007
NRA look at the complex production of the Doctor Who story Underworld, with particular emphasis on the difficulties in achieving the bluescreen virtual studio sets.
Into the Unknown
2010
NRThe cast and crew look back at the making of The Armageddon Factor.
Defining Shadows
2007
8.0Documentary looking at the Doctor's robot dog, K9, which appeared in the Doctor Who series between 1977 and 1981. The documentary includes interviews with cast and crew, as well as a showreel for a K9 TV series that has yet to be made.
K9 Unleashed
2000
NRSeveral key production personnel look at the making of K-9 and Company: A Girls Best Friend, plus K-9's subsequent life in books and comic strips is examined and explored.
The K-9 Files
2008
Behind the camera
6.0A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.
Machinegunner
1976
Mr. Fisher is invited to a TV studio following the filming of his family's encounter with a bailiff. However, there are problems with the footage.
Item
1974
7.2The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in the 30th century. They are caught quickly in a power struggle between the cruel Marshal of Solos and the young Solonian Ky over the future of Solos - a future that hinges on the contents of the message.
Doctor Who: The Mutants
1972
5.3On the edge of the universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 encounter a Minyan ship on an epic quest to find their race banks... but their people have encountered the Time Lords before...
Doctor Who: Underworld
1978
5.5The final segment of the Key to Time is at the heart of a devastating war between neighbouring planets Atrios and Zeos. The Fourth Doctor discovers that a sinister entity is manipulating events and the cost of obtaining the final segment may be more personal than he imagined.
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979
6.8A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971
7.6When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
1976
9.0A family settles in an old castle with plans to, among other things, turn its former cemetery into a swimming pool. However, soon they find out that, in ancient times, pagan rituals took place there involving the sacrifice of young virgins. When an evil entity starts luring young boy Mark into killing himself in order to become the next sacrificial offering, something must be done to save him. Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin who wrote many episodes of Dr. Who.
Succubus
1987
NRJack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.
Unreported Incident
1988
7.4Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords' past hell-bent on destruction. The only way to defeat him is to break the First Law of Time and let the Doctor help himself — literally...
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
1973
7.2A three-man rocket crew are nearly done with their mission to Titan Base until a course change puts the rocket in the path of a strange cloud in space. By the time they arrive, they have come under the control of a sentient virus which threatens the galaxy. When the TARDIS picks up an emergency message, it flies into the cloud, infecting the Doctor. To save himself and others, he must undertake a dangerous journey.
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
1977
6.1Sontaran Field Major Styre is conducting experiments on the survivors of future Earth in preparation of a full-scale Sontaran invasion of the planet. Can the Doctor defeat Styre and save the world?
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
1975