MARTIN DAY

Scriptwriter and Author

I have been a freelance writer for over twenty years, and am a regular contributor to BBC1's Doctors. I was lead writer on CBBC's Crisis Control and have also worked on Channel Five's Family Affairs. I'm the author of ten novels and audiobooks, and eight non-fiction books, mostly concerning television in general and Doctor Who in particular. I've also written plays, comic strips, short stories and journalism.

I am represented by JFL Agency Ltd (scripts) and The Marsh Agency (books). Click on Contact Me for more details.

I am a member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, BAFTA and the Wessex Media Group.


Latest News

17 February
If you were able to watch 'Naqam' yesterday, I hope you enjoyed it. Various people - OK, two of you - have asked about the episode title. I had quite a lot of story to get through, so various scenes were either deleted or edited before transmission, which means a few explanations and bits of background were lost. If you're interested, I've created a little PDF of some of these scenes (click here to read it). It proves the old adage that less is more as I think I prefer the transmitted version.

Oh, please make sure you watch the episode first!

13 February 2012
'Naqam', my tenth episode of Doctors, is on BBC1/BBC1 HD at 1.45pm this Thursday (repeated on BBC HD later that afternoon, and then on iPlayer for 7 days).

As with most episodes of Doctors, there's a bit of ongoing serial, but it's largely a self-contained drama. I wanted this one to be like Waking the Dead, only in miniature and on a daytime budget! It stars Owen Brenman, Diane Keen, Jan Pearson, Tom Roberts, Philip Bird, Sally Watts, and the legend that is Edward de Souza.

21 November
My Sarah Jane Adventures audiobook, Children of Steel, which is now in shops and available from all online retailers, and Scott Gray's Judgement Day, are "among the best of the range". So says the review in the latest Doctor Who Magazine, which is out now.

In other news, my latest Doctors has now been filmed - I can't wait to tell you who's in it!

22 September
It's been mentioned in Doctor Who Magazine, so I guess it's safe to announce... I've written a Sarah Jane Adventures audiobook, Children of Steel. The reader is Daniel Anthony, who it was my pleasure to meet after the recent screening of 'Sky' at the BFI, and it's out in November.

21 September
I've finished my latest episode of Doctors (provisionally entitled 'Naqam'). Now it's over to the producer and director...!

16 August
I've started work on my tenth episode of Doctors! It's quite an unusual story, I think, but if all goes according to plan it will be on BBC1 in February.

11 March 2011
Less than a week until my next episode of Doctors! 'Pretending to See the Future' is on BBC1 and BBC1 HD at 1.45pm on Thursday 17 March and again on BBC HD at 4pm (and then available on iPlayer for a week). It stars the wonderful Luisa Bradshaw-White (who I still remember as Kira in the seminal This Life) as a woman who believes she has travelled forward in time. It also features Janet Dibley, Joe Sargent, David Partridge, Adrian Lewis Morgan, Lorna Laidlaw, Richard Corgan and Sophie Abelson.

If you're able to watch, please do!