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David Whitaker (screenwriter)
English television writer and novelist
David Arthur Whitaker (18 April 1928 – 4 February 1980) was an English television writer and novelist who worked on the early years of the science-fiction TV series Doctor Who.
He served as the programme's first story editor, supervising the writing of its first 51 episodes from 1963 to 1964.
Career
Prior to joining the BBC, Whitaker worked as a writer, actor and director with the York Repertory Group.
A play he wrote for them, 'A Choice of Partners' (1957),[1] gained the attention of the BBC's script department. They commissioned Whitaker to work on the programmes Garry Halliday (1962) and the long-running Compact (1962).[2]
Whitaker also contributed his own scripts for a number of Doctor Who serials, including The Crusade[3] (1965), The Power of the Daleks (1966),[4]The Evil of the Daleks (1967),[5]The Enemy of the World (1967–68) and