He died leaving his novelisation of The Enemy of the World unfinished and his plans to adapt The Evil of the Daleks unrealised. īefore his death in 1980, Whitaker had been undergoing treatment for cancer. He moved to Australia in the 70's and contributed to the series "Homicide", "The Drifter" and "Elephant Boy" before returning to the UK. In 1973, Whitaker's novelisations (along with a third, written by Bill Strutton and based on The Web Planet) were re-issued by Target Books as part of its launch of a new series of novelisations Whitaker's Dalek story was re-titled Doctor Who and the Daleks.įrom 1966 to 1968 Whitaker was the chairman of the Writers Guild of Great Britain. Both books were originally published by Frederick Muller, with the first also being given a paperback release by Armada. He completed a second novelisation the following year, this time based on his own script for The Crusade.
His own, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, was based on Terry Nation's script for the first Dalek TV serial. In 1964, Whitaker published the first novelisation of a Doctor Who serial more than 150 other such books would be published in the course of the next 30 years. His other work included writing the Dalek comic strip for the weekly children's magazine TV Century 21, in addition to the stage play The Curse of the Daleks (1965). He had therefore agreed to take up a role working on another production. He had not planned to stay longer than a year as Doctor Who's story editor, as he thought the serial might not be renewed. Although he left the post of story editor in 1964 his final script for the show was The Ambassadors of Death (1970). Whitaker also contributed his own scripts for a number of Doctor Who serials, including The Crusade (1965), The Power of the Daleks (1966), The Evil of the Daleks (1967), The Enemy of the World (1967–68) and The Wheel in Space (1968, from a story concept by Kit Pedler). They commissioned Whitaker to work on the programmes Garry Halliday (1962) and the long-running Compact (1962). A play he wrote for them, 'A Choice of Partners' (1957), gained the attention of the BBC's script department. Prior to joining the BBC, Whitaker worked as a writer, actor and director with the York Repertory Group.
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