Boucher, Chris
Entry updated 10 November 2023. Tagged: Author, TV.
(1943-2022) UK Television screenwriter, script/continuity editor and author whose first work of genre interest was the four-part Doctor Who serial The Face of Evil (1-22 January 1977), featuring the Fourth Doctor and introducing the popular Doctor's companion Leela. Further Doctor Who serials in the same year were The Robots of Death (29 January-19 February 1977) and Image of the Fendahl (29 October-19 November 1977). Boucher subsequently worked on Blake's 7 (1978-1981) as script editor and also wrote nine episodes. He devised and wrote for Star Cops (1987), which he much later novelized as Star Cops (2013).
Further genre publications comprise four Doctor Who Ties in the Doctor Who BBC Past Doctors sequence, beginning with Last Man Running (1999) [see Checklist below]. [DRL]
Christopher Franklin Boucher
born 15 February 1943
died 11 December 2022
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Doctor Who BBC Past Doctors
- Last Man Running (London: BBC Books, 1999) [tie to the Doctor Who universe: Doctor Who BBC Past Doctors: pb/]
- Corpse Marker (London: BBC Books, 1999) [tie to the Doctor Who universe: Doctor Who BBC Past Doctors: pb/]
- Psi-Ence Fiction (London: BBC Books, 2001) [tie to the Doctor Who universe: Doctor Who BBC Past Doctors: pb/Black Sheep]
- Match of the Day (London: BBC Books, 2001) [tie to the Doctor Who universe: Doctor Who BBC Past Doctors: pb/]
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