Chris Boucher

Chris Boucher was screenwriter, script editor and novelist. His writing contributions specialised in science fiction and crime. He worked on Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Star Cops, Shoestring, Bergerac and The Bill.

Works

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Release Date1963-11-23

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JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count678

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

Release Date1981-10-18

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count21

Blake's 7

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

Release Date1978-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Vote Count46

Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

The Doctor and Leela must catch a killer on a vast mining ship run by robots and humans.

Release Date1977-02-19

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JobWriter

Vote Count9

Shoestring

Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.

Release Date1979-09-30

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl

The present day: just as the Fourth Doctor and Leela arrive in Fetchborough, England, Professor Fendelman prepares to experiment on a fossilized skull which science says should not exist. The skull is actually an artefact of the Fendahl, a god-like being who feeds on the life force of others. It has begun to awaken and kill. Worse yet, others seek to exploit the Fendahl's dreadful power.

Release Date1977-11-19

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JobWriter

Vote Count4

Juliet Bravo

Juliet Bravo was a drama that focused on two female police inspectors, neither of whom were called Juliet Bravo! These two inspectors worked in the small fictional town of Hartley, Lancashire. Jean Darblay was on the scene first and had trouble with her sexist colleagues. However she soon managed to gain their trust and prove a woman could be a successful police officer and housewife. Jean's call sign was Juliet Bravo. When she was promoted and moved on she was replaced by Kate Longton who not only took over the patch but also the headaches that went with it.

Release Date1980-08-30

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Star Cops

Star Cops is a British science fiction TV series created by Chris Boucher, set in 2027 where the International Space Police Force (ISPF) maintains law and order in a newly colonized solar system, overseen by Commander Nathan Spring. Known for its hard science fiction approach and realistic portrayal of space travel, the series was canceled after one season due to poor ratings and production issues. Retrospectively, it has been critically reappraised.

Release Date1987-07-06

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JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count13

Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

The Doctor arrives on a planet where two tribes, the savage Sevateem and the technically brilliant Tesh, are at war. He meets Leela, an exile from the Sevateem, and discovers that the tribes' god of evil is apparently himself...

Release Date1977-01-22

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JobWriter

Vote Count7

Dave Allen at Large

David Tynan O'Mahony, better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian. Initially becoming known in Australia during 1963–64, Allen made regular television appearances in the United Kingdom in the later 1960s and 1970s

Release Date1971-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count30

Vote Count9