Don Houghton

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don Houghton (1930 in Paris - July 1991) was a British television screenwriter.

Houghton started writing for radio in 1951 before moving into film and television in 1958. In the 1970s, he was a primary writer for Hammer Films including for Dracula AD 1972, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires and Shatter.

His television work includes Doctor Who for which he wrote the serials Inferno (1970) and The Mind of Evil (1971), the fifth Sapphire & Steel television story (known informally as Dr McDee Must Die) co-written with Anthony Read, Emergency Ward 10, Crossroads, Ace of Wands, New Scotland Yard and The Professionals.

Houghton created and wrote for the soap opera Take The High Road. He has also written three novels: Column of Thieves and Blood Brigade and "Take the High Road: Summers Gloaming".

Houghton was married to actress Pik-Sen Lim, who starred in the latter Doctor Who story and in the first three seasons of Mind Your Language.