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Doctor Who writer Robert Stewart Banks dies aged 84 after cancer battle

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Robert Stewart Banks famously penned two of Doctor Who’s best known 70s stories (Picture: PA)

TV writer Robert Stewart Banks, who penned two classic 70s Doctor Who episodes as well as creating TV series Bergerac, has died aged 84.

Banks’ son Andy Stewart confirmed that the Scottish-born writer had been suffering from cancer.

Stewart, who was born in 1931, originally worked as a journalist in his native Edinburgh before turning his attentions to TV writing.

He went on to write the Doctor Who stories The Terror Of The Zygons – a four-part story which aired in 1975 – and 1976’s The Seeds Of Doom, both of which are now regarded as classics by fans of… Read the full story


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