 | By: | Richard Molesworth | | | Rating: | Awaiting 3 votes Vote here | | | Review: | None yet Add a review | | | Released: | October 2013
| | | Publisher: | Telos | | | ISBN: | 978-1-84583-091-5 | | | Format: | paperback | | | Owned: | | | | Buy: |  |  | (Not currently available) |
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Note: Biography of the renowned Doctor Who writer and script editor. Cover blurb:
‘Take “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”. Watch Episode One. It’s the best dialogue ever written. It’s up there with Dennis Potter. By a man called Robert Holmes.’ — Russell T Davies ‘Go find a list of favourite Doctor Who stories and look for the writer with the most entries! That’s our Robert! He took Doctor Who down from space and planets, and slipped all that horror and scariness under your bed and at the back of your hall cupboard.’ — Steven Moffat Those that know the work of Robert Holmes will not be at all surprised by the effusive and expansive appreciation in which he is held today by his colleagues, peers, and contemporaries. Whether writing scripts for the far-flung fantasies of Doctor Who or Blake’s 7, or for the more everyday gritty reality of Bergerac, Shoestring, Juliet Bravo or Public Eye, Robert Holmes was one of television’s most innovative, creative, respected — and least lauded —- of talents from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Now, for the first time, this book examines his work in detail. For this is Robert Holmes’ life in words... |
