Graham Williams was a British television producer and script editor, whose best known work was on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... Script Editor is a program included with Mac OS that allows AppleScripts to be written, debugged, and ran. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ...

He was the producer on the show between 1977 and 1980, during the Tom Baker era. Williams has been criticised for his "lack of respect" for the series, by introducing large amounts of parody and pastiche into the show. Williams's era suffered from the fact that he was following Philip Hinchcliffe, whose tenure as producer was and continues to be well-regarded by fans of the programme. He also wrote significant portions of the script for two stories beset by production/writing problems, City of Death and The Invasion of Time. These production problems plagued many television series in the late 1970s. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, from The Masque of Mandragora Thomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is an English actor. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Philip Hinchcliffe Philip Hinchcliffe (born 1944) is a British television producer, who is probably best known for the overseeing of the golden era of British television series Doctor Who in the mid-1970s. ... City of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 29 to October 20, 1979. ... The Invasion of Time is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 4 to March 11, 1978. ...

During his period on the programme, Williams worked closely with three script editors: the experienced Robert Holmes; Anthony Read; and Douglas Adams, who penned some of the most well-regarded stories of the Williams era and went on to write hugely popular novels and scripts like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This entry is about the television scriptwriter. ... Anthony Read was script editor on the Doctor Who programme on the BBC during part of the tenure of Graham Williams as producer in 1978. ... Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was a British author, comic radio dramatist, and amateur musician. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...

In 1989 Williams wrote a novelisation of The Nightmare Fair (ISBN 0-426-20334-8), a serial which would have been made for Doctor Who's 1986 season but for the fact that the series was put on hiatus. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nightmare Fair is the first of a series of novelisations, based on a number of cancelled scripts from the 1986 season of Doctor Who. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He was also the script editor for The View From Daniel Pike (1971), Sutherland's Law (1973), Z Cars (1975-1976) and Barlow at Large (1975). Sutherlands Law is a British television series made by BBC Scotland between 1973 and 1976. ... Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars, and always pronounced zed, never zee) was a British television drama series centred around the work of regular beat police officers in the fictional town of Newtown, near Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ...

He died in a shooting accident on 17 August 1990. August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

External links

• Graham Williams at the Internet Movie Database