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Fisher, David, 1929-2018


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    • Fisher, David, 1929 Apr. 13-
    • Fisher, David (Of Scottish Television)

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    • found: Read, A. Colonel Z, 1984:t.p. (David Fisher)
    • found: Brit. nat. bib., 1984:B84-25493 (Fisher, David, b. 1929 (Apr. 13))
    • found: Doctor Who : the seventies, 1994:p. 129 (David Fisher, [television] writer) p. 120 (wrote several historical novels with Anthony Read)
    • found: On Target: the Changing Face of Doctor Who website, 25 Apr. 2014:authors (David Fisher first wrote for Doctor Who for the sixteenth season; he had previously worked with Who script editor Anthony Read on The Troubleshooters; the two collaborated again throughout the 1980s and 1990s on a series of non-fiction books about world history: "Operation Lucy", "Deadly embrace", "Colonel Z", "Kristallnacht", "The proudest day", "Berlin rising", "The fall of Berlin") - http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/authors/fish/fisher.htm
    • found: Wikipedia, 25 Apr. 2014:under David Fisher, writer (David Fisher is a British professional writer for television; he was born in 1929; he was working on a story for Doctor Who called "A gamble with time" for the seventeenth season, but was unable to finish the scripts; that story was reworked and completed by then script editor Douglas Adams and then producer Graham Williams, and was recorded and broadcast as "City of Death" under the pseudonym of David Agnew)
    • found: City of death, 2005: container (David Agnew, pseudonym for David Fisher, Douglas Adams and Graham Williams)
    • found: TimeTravelTV WWW site, viewed 29 March 2017(David Fisher; writer for Doctor Who, 1978-1980; worked in advertising, then for STV (Scottish Television) where he wrote for The One O'Clock Gang; after moving to London, wrote for leading dramas, including Orlando, Dixon of Dock Green, The Troubleshooters, Crown Court, The Mackinnons, and Hammer House of Horror; wrote four stories for Doctor Who (The stones of blood, The androids of Tara, The creature from the pit, and The leisure hive); wrote story that became City of Death; in later years, collaborated with Anthony Read on historical books dealing with WW2 espionage and Nazi persecution of the Jews) - http://timetraveltv.com/programme/465
    • found: This is Scotland : the first fifty years of Scottish Television, 2009, via Google Books, viewed 29 March 2017p. 24 ("Gang" scriptwriter, Melbourne-born David Fisher, wrote children's book "The criminal career of Vinegar Tom")
    • found: His Tilly ballooning, c1961
    • found: National Library of Scotland main catalogue, viewed 29 March 2017(access point: Fisher, David, of Scottish Television; usage: written and drawn by David Fisher; associated titles: Tilly ballooning; The criminal career of Vinegar Tom)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 9, 2018(David Fisher (13 April 1929 - 10 January 2018) was a British professional writer for television) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fisher_%28writer%29

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    • [For works of this author written in collaboration with Graham Williams and Douglas Adams, search also under: Agnew, David.]
    • [Formerly on undifferentiated name record: n 80131349]

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    • 1988-03-31: new
    • 2018-03-10: revised

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