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Brian Hayles

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Born: March 06 1931

Died: 2929 10 19781978

Brian Hayles was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. His body of work as a writer for television and film, most notably for the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, lasted from 1963 to 1989.

Hayles wrote six stories for Doctor Who and is best known for his creation of the Celestial Toymaker in the 1966 story of the same name, the Ice Warriors, introduced in the 1967 story of the same name, and the feudal planet Peladon, the setting for The Curse of Peladon and its sequel The Monster of Peladon. His other stories were The Smugglers and The Seeds of Death.

In addition to script writing for the radio series The Archers, Hayles penned a novel based on the soap called Spring at Brookfield set in the period between the two world wars. His other books included novelisations of his Doctor Who serials The Curse of Peladon and The Ice Warriors , an adaptation of his scripts for the BBC drama The Moon Stallion , and two horror plays for children, The Curse of the Labyrinth and Hour of the Werewolf . An original novel entitled Goldhawk was published posthumously.

Apart from Doctor Who, Hayles wrote for such television series as The Regiment, Barlow at Large, Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown, United!, Legend of Death, Public Eye, Z-Cars, BBC Playhouse, The Wednesday Thriller and Suspense. He also wrote the screenplays for the feature films Nothing But the Night and Warlords of Atlantis . The novelisation of the latter by Paul Victor included a preface by Hayles entitled 'The Thinking Behind Atlantis' in which he explained the origins of the film's central concepts.

Hayles's final screenplay was for Arabian Adventure , which he completed shortly before his death on 30 October 1978. The novelisation of the film by Keith Miles was dedicated to his memory.

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Brian Hayles

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Books from Brian Hayles

Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors

Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

Doctor Who: Lords of the Red Planet

Doctor Who: The Queen of Time

Doctor Who: The Smugglers

Doctor Who: Tales from the Tardis Volume One

The Moon Stallion

Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon (Dr Who)

Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes, Collection Two: 1965-1966

Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes, Collection Three: 1966-1967

Doctor Who: The Monsters Collection

Doctor Who: The Alien Worlds Collection

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

Black Tom Tyrant

Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes, Collection Four: 1967

Spring at Brookfield

Doctor Who: The Dark Planet (The Lost Stories 4.1)

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon