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David Ellis (scriptwriter)
David Ellis (born Derrick Francis Kerkham; 22 June 1918 – 30 June 1978) was an English writer.
Joining Manchester Repertory Company, Ellis worked in other repertory companies within provinces including Bolton, Keighley, Crewe, Worcester and Derby as a stage producer and director. This led to him writing stage plays.
Making acquaintance with Malcolm Hulke at the annual awards dinner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain in March 1966, the pair wrote the Doctor Who serial The Faceless Ones, recorded with Patrick Troughton in 1967. The story was penned by the duo following the rejection of a previous script by the two men. Indeed, Ellis himself had seen his script ideas for “The Clock”, “The People Who Couldn't Remember” (with Hulke) and “The Ocean Liner” all rejected. Their script “The Big Store” was also finally not commissioned despite extensive work, though some of the ideas about the substitution of people by replicas was taken further in The Faceless Ones, with the scenario changed from a department store to an airport.
Ellis' other writing credits include Paul Temple, Spy Trap and many episodes of Dixon of Dock Green in the 1960s and Z-Cars in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ellis wrote detective plays for the Midweek Theatre slot on BBC Radio 4. His radio serial in seven parts Find the Lady, first broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1969, was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in January 2020. He also wrote stage plays. Make Me A Widow was the most successful of these, opening in London in the Summer of 1964 and playing in repertory around the country for many years afterwards.
Doctor Who: The Clock
Ellis had written this story since March 1966. Not much was known about it. A minor plot of the story was to be a four-part story that would see the Doctor, Polly, and Ben encounter a disastrous result from ‘the clock’ of his TARDIS (theories/references to The Daleks' Master Plan).
The story was rejected by story editor Gerry Davis on 4 April 1966 because he considered the plot too complicated. Davis also rejected Ellis' four-part serial: The Ocean Liner.
The People Who Couldn’t Remember
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David Ellis (scriptwriter)
David Ellis (born Derrick Francis Kerkham; 22 June 1918 – 30 June 1978) was an English writer.
Joining Manchester Repertory Company, Ellis worked in other repertory companies within provinces including Bolton, Keighley, Crewe, Worcester and Derby as a stage producer and director. This led to him writing stage plays.
Making acquaintance with Malcolm Hulke at the annual awards dinner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain in March 1966, the pair wrote the Doctor Who serial The Faceless Ones, recorded with Patrick Troughton in 1967. The story was penned by the duo following the rejection of a previous script by the two men. Indeed, Ellis himself had seen his script ideas for “The Clock”, “The People Who Couldn't Remember” (with Hulke) and “The Ocean Liner” all rejected. Their script “The Big Store” was also finally not commissioned despite extensive work, though some of the ideas about the substitution of people by replicas was taken further in The Faceless Ones, with the scenario changed from a department store to an airport.
Ellis' other writing credits include Paul Temple, Spy Trap and many episodes of Dixon of Dock Green in the 1960s and Z-Cars in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ellis wrote detective plays for the Midweek Theatre slot on BBC Radio 4. His radio serial in seven parts Find the Lady, first broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1969, was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in January 2020. He also wrote stage plays. Make Me A Widow was the most successful of these, opening in London in the Summer of 1964 and playing in repertory around the country for many years afterwards.
Doctor Who: The Clock
Ellis had written this story since March 1966. Not much was known about it. A minor plot of the story was to be a four-part story that would see the Doctor, Polly, and Ben encounter a disastrous result from ‘the clock’ of his TARDIS (theories/references to The Daleks' Master Plan).
The story was rejected by story editor Gerry Davis on 4 April 1966 because he considered the plot too complicated. Davis also rejected Ellis' four-part serial: The Ocean Liner.
The People Who Couldn’t Remember