Brian Leonard Hayles (7 March 1931[Ancestry/Find My Past] – 30 October 1978) was an English television and film writer, most notably for the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.[ Biographical Details of Brian Hayles in: Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors, Brian Hayles, Random House, 2012, P 161]
Doctor Who
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
,
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.
Novels
In addition to script writing for the radio series
The Archers,
Hayles penned a novel based on the soap
called
Spring at Brookfield (Tandem, 1975) set in the period between the two
. His other books included novelisations of his
Doctor Who serials
The Curse of Peladon (Target, 1974) and
The Ice Warriors (Target, 1976),
an adaptation of his scripts for the BBC drama
The Moon Stallion (Mirror Books, 1978), and two horror plays for children,
The Curse of the Labyrinth (Dobson, 1976) and
Hour of the Werewolf (Dobson, 1976). In 1979, NEL published, posthumously, his original novel
Goldhawk, a heist-thriller set around
Heathrow Airport.
[ Goldhawk, by Brian Hayles, New English Library, 1979, .]
Writing
Apart from
Doctor Who, Hayles wrote for such television series as
The Regiment,
,
Doomwatch,
,
,
Legend of Death,
Public Eye,
Z-Cars,
,
The Wednesday Thriller and
Suspense. He also wrote the screenplays for the feature films
Nothing But the Night (1972) and
Warlords of Atlantis (1978).
The novelisation of the latter by Paul Victor (Futura, 1978) included a preface by Hayles entitled 'The Thinking Behind Atlantis' in which he explained the origins of the film's central concepts. Hayles contributed to a BBC series called Slim John which was an English Language course taught via the medium of science fiction scenarios.
Hayles's final screenplay was for Arabian Adventure (1979), which he completed shortly before his death on 30 October 1978. The novelisation of the film by Keith Miles (Mirror Books, 1979) was dedicated to his memory.
See also
-
List of unmade Doctor Who serials and films
External links
