Robert Sloman
TV Writer
1926 – 2005
Who was Robert Sloman?
Robert Sloman was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England on 18 July 1926 and died aged 79 on 24 October 2005. He was an actor who later worked at The Sunday Times circulation department for more than 20 years, becoming distribution manager; but is best known for his work as a writer for television.
In the early 1970s he made a significant contribution to the science fiction programme Doctor Who on the BBC. Together with then producer Barry Letts, he wrote four stories for the Jon Pertwee era on the programme: The Dæmons; The Time Monster; The Green Death; and Planet of the Spiders, which was Pertwee's swan song. The first of these is often one of the most well regarded in the programme's history; while the others contained strong moral messages, especially the focus on pollution and globalisation in The Green Death. When The Green Death was released on DVD in 2004, Sloman contributed a feature on the writing of the story
Sloman had also planned to bring the Daleks back at the end of the third Pertwee season, Season 9, in a serial called The Daleks in London.
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- Born
- Jul 18, 1926
Oldham - Also known as
- Guy Leopold
- Spouses
- Mary Saffery
( - 2005/10/24)
- Mary Saffery
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Died
- Oct 24, 2005
South Hams
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on July 23, 2013
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