Peter R. Newman (1926–1975) was an English television screenwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Essex. He wrote a television play, Yesterday's Enemy, which he later turned into a screenplay for Val Guest; the film version was released in 1959. As a three-act play, it was published by Samuel French in 1960.[1]
He wrote The Sensorites for the first season of Doctor Who in 1963-64. This would be Newman's only contribution to Doctor Who, and indeed his last credit for British television. He died in 1975 after an accident.