Martin Day (writer)

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Martin Day
Born1968 (age 55–56)

Martin Day (born 1968 in Yeovil) is a screenwriter and novelist best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who, and many episodes of the soaps Fair City, Doctors and Family Affairs. Having worked previously at Bath Spa University,[1][2] he is now visiting lecturer in creative writing at the University of Winchester[3] and the Wessex regional representative of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.[4]

Work

Day's first published fiction was the novel

Another Girl, Another Planet by Virgin Publishing. Co-written with Steve Bowkett (under the pseudonym Len Beech), this was one of the first books in Virgin's line of Bernice Summerfield
novels.

Following these novels, Day returned to solo writing, and to the Past Doctor Adventures range in 2001 with the novel

CBBC; Day storylined all thirteen episodes.[5][6] In 2015 he started writing for RTÉ One's soap Fair City.[7]

As well as writing fiction, Day has also written several unofficial guide books to television series such as

The X Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Avengers. These were published by Virgin, and co-written with Keith Topping and (with the exception of Shut It!, a guide to The Sweeney and The Professionals) Paul Cornell. Cornell, Day and Topping also wrote Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide
, published by Virgin in 1995 as a light-hearted guide to the mistakes and incongruities of the television series. The first book written by Cornell, Day and Topping was Classic British TV, which was released by Guinness Publishing in 1993 and 1996.

In recent years Day has continued his work on Doctor Who, with the play

Children of Steel[12] for The Sarah Jane Adventures and The Sleeping Blood for The Companion Chronicles.[13]

References

  1. ^ Kingdom, Information Services, Bath Spa University, Newton Park Campus, Newton Saint Loe, Bath, BA1 2BN, United. "Bath Spa University". applications.bathspa.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Patreon campaign: Martin Day's Charnage House". We Are Cult. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Martin Day - Author and Scriptwriter". Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Martin Day - Writers' Guild of Great Britain". Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  5. ^ "CV: Martin Day" (PDF). Martin Day.
  6. ^ "Crisis Control". IMDb. 10 January 2009.
  7. ^ "Martin Day".
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ "Rakuten".
  10. ^ "Martin Day". Martin Day. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  11. ISBN 978-0553822113
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  12. ISBN 9781408469958
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  13. ^ "9. Doctor Who - the Companion Chronicles: The First Doctor Volume 01 - Doctor Who - the Companion Chronicles - Big Finish".

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