David Fisher

Writing

13 Apr 1929

† 10 Jan 2018

Biography

David Fisher (13 April 1929 – 10 January 2018) was a British television screenwriter. Doctor Who script editor Anthony Read commissioned Fisher to write The Stones of Blood (1978) and The Androids of Tara (1978) for The Key to Time storyline of season 16, and he was subsequently commissioned to write The Creature from the Pit (1979) for the seventeenth season during the tenure of Douglas Adams as script editor. He worked on a story called "A Gamble with Time", also for the seventeenth season, b...