Christopher H. Bidmead
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Christopher Hamilton Bidmead (born 1941) is a freelance writer. He started out as an actor, and then moved to scriptwriting and journalism before becoming a script editor at the BBC.
He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA). He played several roles on stage, television and radio. By the early 1970s he was scriptwriting for Thames Television, producing material for Harriet's Back in Town and Rooms. Up until 1979, he was a journalist.
In 1979, Robert Banks Stewart recommended him for the post of script editor on Doctor Who. After a year as script editor, also supplying stories for Logopolis and Castrovalva, he returned to freelance work. This included writing the serial Frontios as well as producing novelisations of all three of these Doctor Who stories.
He has continued his career in computer journalism, writing regularly (as Chris Bidmead) for Personal Computer World, PC Plus and other computer magazines, and specialising in Linux tools. Occasionally he has contributed more speculative or philosophical pieces for publications such as New Scientist, and recently he has worked as a journalist producing material for Wired magazine.
In August 2006, it was announced in Doctor Who Magazine that Bidmead would be writing a Doctor Who audio play, Renaissance of the Daleks, for release through Big Finish Productions in March 2007. Chris Bidmead withdrew from this project in January 2007, although he did receive a 'Based on a Story By' credit for the play.
In the commentary for the Doctor Who DVD Castrovalva, when the Doctor's Index File database was compared to Wikipedia, Bidmead stated that Wikipedia was a good source of information about Doctor Who.
