good@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (07/26/84)
Nope, I believe Douglas Adams did write "City of Death"-- in tandem with
Graham Williams. Thus, the credit given on screen was a pseudonym to cover
them both (David Agnew, I think it was). Heaven only knows why they didn't
just put their own names; but Graham Williams did this with "The Invasion
of Time" also. He co-wrote it with his first-season script editor, Anthony
Read I think, but gave a single pseudonym on screen. Peculiar.
One can find out this entertaining sort of splunge in "Doctor Who: A
Celebration" which is a very ducky book. (The same author, Peter Haining,
also wrote a compendium/tribute sort of book about Sherlock Holmes, which
perhaps explains why in the Doctor Who book he is so intrigued with the
conflict between the Doctor and the Master, which rather resembles that
between Holmes and Moriarty...)
By the way, thank you for that nice letter about Tom Baker; it was very
interesting reading indeed even though I can't say I believed any of those
other scurrilious comments anyway...at least, it's better to take everything
with a shaker or two of salt. Besides, since I will probably never know him
personally myself, what really matters with me is the way he plays the
Doctor. THAT speaks for itself!!!
J. Lawrence of Gallifrey