Andrew Cartmel

Like there's more sort of computer generated.

It's building on the kind of little steps forward they made during trial and kind of making it a bit more... uh commonplace in doctor who so you do have sort of visual effects that are done by computer rather than practically like it feels like doctor who at this point it's obviously it's nowhere near next gen in the look of it but it is it's actually once it's finally kind of starting to kind of push into the era thanks to andrew cartmel and all the kind of new writers that he brings in and the sort of writers obviously we don't get that i don't think Am I right in saying this? We don't really get that in TNG until probably season three when like Ira Steven Burr and Rodney Moore and stuff come in.

Like writers that have grown up with original Star Trek that then have their own take on it.

But Doctor Who, that happens here, really, with sort of, you know, people like Ben Aronovich and Ian Briggs.

[laughs] While Redvers Van Cooper's invitation to Buckingham Palace had earlier been a will for which characters were vying in Longborough.

Andrew Cartmel suggested making evolution a theme of the piece, while Marc Platt's BBC duties as a radio archivist inspired Lite's mission to document all forms of life on Earth.

Marc Platt was one of only two writers in the entirety of the history of the series, uh, the other being Andrew Smith, to have a script accepted with, accepted with no professional writing experience whatsoever, and actually no real writing background.

Hmm.

We were down there, and we, um, uh, kind of were doing workshops every day and, and then we would have various people coming in and talking to us, like producers and, you know, and different folks.

And one day, um, uh, Andrew Cartmel, who's script editor on Doctor Who, came in with a bunch of other people.

So it was supposed to be a kind of meet and greet, and everyone's milling around the room and, you know, going up to this person, and I just made a beeline for him and said, "How do I write for Doctor Who? I want to write for Doctor Who." And fortunately, he didn't kind of beat me off of the stick.

Um, he actually kind of went, "Well, you know, we could talk about it." Um, so that's, uh, so made that connection, and then just pursued it by sending ideas, and, uh, got the commission on the back of that, so.

I said five.

Initially, it's a four part story called The Good Soldier written by Andrew Cartmel.

So we've got that to talk about there.

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[laughs] Oh, my.

Why is it all script editors and everyone throughout Doctor Who obsessed with someone has to be a real scientist?

No, only two people.

Pip and Jane-

Produced by John Nathan Turner.

Andrew Cartmel is still the script editor.

Probably coming...

We're at the point where he's a little bit more...

yeah but also like this is the style of the master plan like right here this episode there is those hints and nods that there's something greater for

the cart mill master plan yes can you elaborate on the cart mill master plan

so the master plan was are you are you saying this for the audience or you're saying it for yourself both So the master plan, Cutman master plan was this idea of, he always thought that the Doctor now at this point, him and the writers were like, all right, the Doctor does not have enough mystery to him.

We know who this guy is because we've been dealing with him for 25 years now.

Suddenly there's

a sense of optimism in the show.

It's astonishing, isn't it? So Douglas Adams then would only have been about what? five years older than Andrew Cartmell? I feel like Andrew Cartmell was

like 1957, 1958.

I know this because that thing that's been doing the rounds on Blue Sky recently of since Andrew Cartmell became script editor, the same generation of fans have been in charge of Doctor Who.

Oh, gosh.

That's terrifying.

Andrew Cartmell was the oldest one they could identify and he was like 57.