Interview by BENJAMIN COOK
By Christmas 1986, Doctor Who’s producer, John Nathan-Turner, had been persuaded to stay for an unprecedented seventh season. But the show was in urgent need of a script editor – the ‘story showrunner’ to JNT’s ‘production showrunner’.
John’s agent, Richard Wakely, recommended one of his newest clients, the 28-year-old Andrew Cartmel, an aspiring writer who had attended workshops at the BBC’s Script Unit, which had been impressed by unsolicited scripts that he’d sent in.