Gerry Davis

Last updated 09 January 2020

Production Credits	expand all 6 roles
Script Editor: The Tenth Planet; The Highlanders \| as Story Editor: The Massacre; The Ark; The Celestial Toymaker; The Gunfighters; The Savages; The War Machines; The Smugglers; The Tenth Planet; The Power of the Daleks; The Highlanders; The Underwater Menace; The Moonbase; The Macra Terror; The Faceless Ones; The Evil of the Daleks	60 credits in 17 entries
Writer: The Tenth Planet(as Gerry Davies); The Tomb of the Cybermen; Revenge of the Cybermen; The Celestial Toymaker(uncredited); The Highlanders(uncredited)	18 credits in 5 entries
Original Creator: World Enough And Time / The Doctor Falls \| as Cybermen created by: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel; Army of Ghosts / Doomsday; The Next Doctor; A Good Man Goes to War; Closing Time; Nightmare in Silver; The Day of The Doctor; The Time of the Doctor; Dark Water / Death in Heaven; Hell Bent; World Enough And Time / The Doctor Falls; Attack of the Cybermen(uncredited) \| as Writer (The Tenth Planet): Twice Upon A Time	18 credits in 14 entries
Acknowlegment: as With thanks to: Doctor Who: Earth Conquest[Factual]	1 credit in 1 entry
Created by: as Cybermen created by: The Haunting Of Villa Diodati; Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children; Once, Upon Time; The Vanquishers; The Power of the Doctor	6 credits in 5 entries
Written By: Return of the Cybermen[BF]	1 credit in 1 entry

Gerry Davis

Born: Sunday 23rd February 1930
Died: Saturday 31st August 1991 (age: 61)

Gerry Davis was a British television writer, best known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre.

From 1966 until the following year, he was the script editor on Doctor Who, for which he co-created the Cybermen. His fellow co-creator of these creatures was the programme's unofficial scientific adviser Dr. Kit Pedler, and following their work on Doctor Who, the pair teamed up again in 1970 when they created a science-fiction programme of their own, Doomwatch. Doomwatch ran for three seasons on BBC One from 1970 to 1972, and also spawned a novel written by Davis and Pedler, and later a cinema film and a 1999 revival on Channel 5.

Davis briefly returned to writing Doctor Who, penning the original script for Revenge of the Cybermen, in 1975, though the transmitted version was heavily rewritten by the then script-editor Robert Holmes. He also adapted several of his scripts into novelisations for Target Books. With Kit Pedler, he wrote the science-fiction novels Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters (1971), Brainrack (1974) and The Dynostar Menace (1975).

In the 1980s Davis worked in America both in television and on feature films such as The Final Countdown (1980). In late 1989 he and Terry Nation made a joint but unsuccessful bid to take over production of Doctor Who and reformat the series mainly for the American market. He also wrote for the soap operas Coronation Street and United!.

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