Simon Guerrier
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Writer and sometime producer. Cheshire housewife. Chair of Books Committee for @TheWritersGuild Author: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television
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At
@ThePortico
to launch David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television - out NOW from
@tenacrefilms
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60 years ago today on 31 July 1963, David Whitaker commissioned Terry Nation to write the scripts for the first Dalek story for
#DoctorWho
- and made his own notable contribution.
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Christopher Eccleston on Loose Ends
@BBCRadio4
asked about the new Doctor Who. “She’s northern, working class, what can go wrong?”
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I am not allowed to watch Dr Who until Paw Patrol has finished and I’ve been good.
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Kids in bed, in-laws have left and wife is at the pub so I am left to this most good-humoured wine and the guv’nor.
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In the Art Museum in Vienna, the second Doctor Who cunningly disguised as a Roman eunuch
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@peachesanscream
In the 8 days our eldest daughter lived, the hospital provided clothes and cap that fitted her tiny, long body. They were apparently knitted by an old woman, a patient on another ward, also in palliative care. It still keeps me awake at night.
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Five year-old’s review of
#DoctorWho
: “Too scary! So many monsters! Why do you even like that?”
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95 years ago today, on 18 April 1928, David Arthur Whitaker was born in Knebworth.
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50 years ago today, episode 8 of The War Games revealed that
#DoctorWho
is a Time Lord (though the name Time Lord was first mentioned in episode 6).
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David Whitaker’s niece Melanie with her signed copy of her uncle’s Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks. (In 1963, David bought her and her brother a TV set so they could watch the first episode go out.)
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Some sad news: my lovely Dad, Tim Guerrier, died peacefully at the weekend after a longish illness. I’m okay but will be off Twitter for a bit. Have set up a charity thing in his memory:
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Book launch! David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, 9 November 2023 amid the polite literature
@ThePortico
in Manchester. I'll be interviewed by
@Zebra_carol
about David's contribution to the early days of
#DoctorWho
and much more.
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21 years together. Exactly a year since we last had a babysitter and a night out.
#lockdown2021
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47 today. Same age as Patrick Troughton in The Evil of the Daleks and Tom Baker in Logopolis.
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"Daddy, do you think the TARDIS actually landed here?" "Of course it did."
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Just rung a bloke who played a monster in Doctor Who in one day of filming more than 50 years ago. "Yes, that was me but I don't remember anything about it," he told me. And then spoke for 10 minutes on details.
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When I wrote a Blake’s 7 thing an age ago,
@RobertDick
insisted I watch an interview with Chris Boucher - the one where he says he always wrote Avon with two motives, so you can never be sure if he’s a behaving as a hero or villain. Yeah, yeah, I thought.
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Re last RT, the Doctor Who TV movie in 1996 featured this shot, using poles / set dressed with front axial projection material to reflect back light - to suggest it *wasn’t* a practical set and they’d shelled out on CG.
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Our eldest daughter would have been five today. We carry her with us. Help in dark times came from
@FirstTouchNNU
and
@RMHCUK
if you'd like to make a donation. Our story:
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40 years since this ginormously formative moment that has haunted me ever since. Strange to think I was the same age then as my daughter is now.
#DoctorWho
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Of no interest to anyone, but the last time an episode of
#DoctorWho
was first broadcast on a Wednesday was The Time of the Doctor in 2013. The time before that was Survival part 3 in 1989.
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I had a nice time in London last night. Here is me stood in what used to be the car park of Television Centre where, in 1958, David Whitaker and Barry Thomas shared a caravan as an office.
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30 years ago today, I got Doctor Who and the Timewyrm: Revelation by
@Paul_Cornell
for Christmas, idly opened the first page and unwittingly lost the afternoon reading the whole thing in one sitting. Bliss.
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#OTD
60 years ago, the first filming took place on
#DoctorWho
(not including test and title-sequence footage), including this brilliant, haunting shot of a police box slightly askew in a desert. I wrote a thing a while back:
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I done the writing bits.
SOUND UP! Hear
@jonculshaw
in the trailer for the epic audio novel,
#DoctorWho
: Scourge of the Cybermen. Click here: to pre-order it now!
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AMAZING housewarming present from the all mighty
@SamiraAhmedUK
, complete with original transfers. Especially delightful after a tough old week.
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Three previously unpublished photographs of David Whitaker, first story editor of
#DoctorWho
, from his time as an actor at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, 1954...
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Devastated by this. RIP Guv’nor
#TerranceDicks
I’m so sad that Doctor Who legend
#TerranceDicks
has died. I know how many authors he inspired, and how many millions he entertained as a writer, script-editor, producer and raconteur. I first met him at a library talk when I was eight and edited his final short story this year.
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This Sunday, with the 845th episode of
#DoctorWho
, the total duration of the series will reach 17 days - and counting.
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Blimey! Idly mentioned to Andrew Pixley that I once wrote a short thing for Matt Smith's
#DoctorWho
that never got used. "But it's mentioned on a call sheet," he said. Lo and behold:
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In the midst of writing Sherlock Holmes - The Great War for
@TitanBooks
. More details soon but here's the exciting cover!
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My favourite of Ravilous's paintings of locations used in Doctor Who.
Cuckmere Haven, Eric Ravilious, 1939. The original artwork is in the collection of
@TownerGallery
. East
#Sussex
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Bit of a clear-out. Have decided to junk a whole stack of rejection letters - but to keep this franked envelope from 2003.
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15 years today since my first of 60+
@bigfinish
plays was recorded, directed by
@ianfarrington
and starring Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - who I gave a knighthood:
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So I'm Tom Baker's boss now.
LOST STORIES UNCOVERED! Two new
#DoctorWho
stories starring Tom Baker from Terry Nation and John Lucarotti! Find out more here:
#TerryNationCelebration
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RIP David Fisher, who brought such smart, engaging wit to the Doctor Who stories he wrote.
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Doctor ‘Oo and her plucky assistant at the Large Hadron Collider so as to save the world.
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Did some craft activities, with “the gurl from Doctor Who and her boyfriend”.
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In pub with
@ShearmanRobert
, finalising plans for our James Bond film which I would write and in which Rob would play Honeychile Rider
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It only happens in the gravest emergencies.
Russell T. Davies, Jack Thorne, and Charlie Brooker in conversation at
#ScreenwritersEverywhere
London
#WGAStrike
.
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24 years and one day ago, me and Her Indoors got together. That worked out well. I’ve come home tonight to fizz and posh dinner; but I brought home treasure.
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Cut the grass for the first time at the new house. And look: sunlight.
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Out today, the new
@DWMtweets
includes my interview with
@FeifeiRuan
about her amazing artwork promoting Doctor Who in China.
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At 6 pm 50 years ago today,
#DoctorWho
began an exciting adventure in which the Daleks run an antique shop.
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And I'm currently writing a ginormous biography, 'David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television', to be published by
@tenacrefilms
later this year. I'll end with this lovely note from David to a young Doctor Who fan in 1964...
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Six years since the publication of my finest contribution to Doctor Who Adventures.
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Estate agent rings to share useful feedback from people who've looked round our house. One didn't like the position of the front door. Another thought the garden too dark at night. Another would consider it if we included next door's driveway.
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Praise the company! Just received this in the post from my masters
@DWBBCBooks
. "Doctor Who and the Paper Dolls" in shops soon.
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Greatly enjoying this old book care of
@WhovianFeminism
. Ian Marter’s one regret now sorted by
@gossjam
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Form rejection letter from
@DWBBCBooks
in, I think, 2002. My next attempt, The Time Travellers, got commissioned and I later reworked the plot of The Deluge as Graceless: The Flood.
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My mother has just told me about her mate who, back in the day, had a fun shag in a police box. I realise it’s the mate who told me, years later, in my teens, not to worry about Doctor Who
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THIS IS HOW THE DALEKS STARTED
Well this has cheered me up. Someone has invented a car for a goldfish that can be driven around by its position in the tank.
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OTD 50 years ago, in episode 2 of Spearhead from Space,
#DoctorWho
stole clothes from medical staff at Ashbridge Cottage Hospital and (unlike the car he also stole) never gave them back. He was still wearing the purloined outfit in The Sea Devils, two years later.
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My magnificent in-laws have turned up with a late birthday present.
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Lady Vader very pleased with
@themindrobber
’s TARDIS set in the new
@DWMtweets
, with its food machine for snacks and a clock so Dr Who and her BFFs aren’t late for school.
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Among all the wonders, in 1965, Brian Cant did never bettered, properly terrified death by Dalek in Doctor Who.
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Jon Pertwee, born 100 years ago today, in my favourite of his Doctor Who stories. Because it is the best one.
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Today would have been our eldest daughter’s birthday. In our darkest hours, these people helped:
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Anyway. He made that work for 52 consecutive episodes of Blake’s 7. It’s dead tricky and fiddly, but the result absolutely zings. RIP Chris Boucher - and thank you.
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I have had the most ridiculous fun of a day with this enthusiastic lot...
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