Eric Saward

Known for WritingBorn 1944-12-09 (age 81)

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks

Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

Doctor Who: Earthshock

Doctor Who: Castrovalva

30 Years in the TARDIS

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Doctor Who: Frontios

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

The Dalek Tapes

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: Enlightenment

Doctor Who: The Visitation

Doctor Who: Kinda

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

Doctor Who: Terminus

Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet

Doctor Who: Black Orchid

Tales of the Tardis

Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani

Doctor Who: Planet of Fire

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe

K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

Doctor Who: Time-Flight

Doctor Who: The Awakening

Doctor Who: Snakedance

Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep

Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids

Doctor Who: The King's Demons

Doctor Who: Timelash

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

A Fix with Sontarans

Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams

The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years

Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner

Earthshocked

Come in Number Five

Driven to Distractation

Peter Grimwade: Directing with Attitude...

Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance'

Chain Reaction

Trials and Tribulations