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Robert Sloman | |
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| Born | 18 July 1926 Oldham,Lancashire, England |
| Died | 24 October 2005 (aged 79) South Hams,Devon, England |
Robert Sloman (18 July 1926 – 24 October 2005) was an English screenwriter and actor who later worked atThe Sunday Times circulation department for more than 20 years, becoming distribution manager; but is best known for his work on British television.
Sloman was born inOldham, Lancashire, but his family moved toPlymouth when he was two years old. He gained a degree from theUniversity of Exeter.[1]
In the early 1970s he made a significant contribution to thescience fiction programmeDoctor Who on theBBC. Together with thenproducerBarry Letts, he wrote four stories for theJon Pertwee era on the programme:The Dæmons (credited as Guy Leopold);[1]The Time Monster;The Green Death; andPlanet of the Spiders, which was Pertwee's final serial.[1]The Dæmons was cited by Pertwee as his favourite story,[2] while the others contained strong moral messages, especially the focus on pollution and globalisation inThe Green Death. WhenThe Green Death was released on DVD in 2004, Sloman contributed a feature on the writing of the story.
Sloman had also planned to bring theDaleks back at the end of the third Pertwee season, Season 9, in a serial calledThe Daleks in London. This plan was dropped when the production staff realised that the show would not have a hook for the start of the season to entice viewers, and Sloman's serial was allegedly shaping up to be too similar toThe Dalek Invasion of Earth. Instead, writerLouis Marks was asked to alter his serial to include the Daleks – which becameDay of the Daleks.[3]
Robert Sloman also co-wrote two plays in theWest End, both co-written withLaurence Dobie:The Golden Rivet, andThe Tinker; the latter was later turned into a film,The Wild and the Willing, in 1962.
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