Eric Saward
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- December 9, 1944
Biography
Eric Saward (born 9 December 1944) is a British radio scriptwriter who worked as a screenwriter and script editor on the BBC's science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1982 to 1986. He wrote the stories The Visitation, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks.
Saward's career as a scriptwriter began with drama for radio while he was working as a teacher. Later he was able to cross into full-time writing. He was approached by then Doctor Who script editor Christopher H. Bidmead to submit some ideas to the series on the strength of a recommendation from the senior drama script editor at BBC Radio. He received a commission to write the story The Visitation. This in turn led to his appointment as script editor on the recommendation of Antony Root, who had briefly replaced Bidmead.
Movies with Eric Saward
- 30 Years in the TARDIS 1993 · ★ 7.9
- Built for War: The Sontaran Story 2006 · ★ 7.0
- Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction 2005 · ★ 8.0
- The Dalek Tapes 2006 · ★ 7.5
- The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years 2019
- Davros Connections 2007
- Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner 2019
- Trials and Tribulations 2008
- The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord 2008
- Come in Number Five 2011
- Earthshocked 2018
- Chain Reaction 2010
- Driven to Distractation 2011
- Peter Grimwade: Directing with Attitude... 2011
- Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams 2024
- Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani' 2006
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (documentary) 2007
- Snake Charmer: The Making of 'Snakedance' 2011