Appendix Robert Holmes: Credits
In chronological transmission order, the next few pages list all of Robert Holmes’s television writing credits. ‘*’ denotes programmes that no longer survive in the archives of the respective television companies.
Transmission Series Title Episode Title Channel Date Knight Errant ‘60 ‘The Creditor’ 16.02.60 * Granada
Knight Errant ‘60 ‘The Wall of Death’ 26.04.60 * Granada
Knight Errant ‘60 ‘Brother Cain’ 10.05.60 * Granada ‘Something in the City’ Knight Errant ‘60 14.06.60 * Granada (as ‘William Hood’) Knight Errant ‘60 ‘The King of Kandoga’ 01.07.60 * Granada
Knight Errant Ltd ‘The Jazzman’ (as ‘William Hood’) 22.09.60 * Granada
Knight Errant Ltd ‘The Elopement’ (as ‘William Hood’) 22.06.61 * Granada
Harpers West One (Episode 1.2) 03.07.61 ATV
Family Solicitor ‘Man of Straw’ 26.07.61 * Granada
Family Solicitor ‘Strike Action’ 09.08.61 * Granada
Deadline Midnight ‘Man in a Frame’ 30.09.61 ATV
Family Solicitor ‘Statement of Affairs’ 09.11.61 * Granada
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 507) 19.06.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 508) 22.02.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 512) 06.07.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 515) 17.07.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 518) 27.07.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 521) 07.08.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 524) 17.08.62 * ATV
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Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 527) 28.08.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 530) 07.09.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 533) 18.09.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 536) 28.09.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 539) 09.10.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 542) 19.10.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 543) 23.10.62 * ATV
Ghost Squad ‘The Green Shoes’ 08.11.62 ITC
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 548) 09.11.62 * ATV
Harpers West One (Episode 2.10) 19.11.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 551) 20.11.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 554) 30.11.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 557) 11.12.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 560) 21.12.62 * ATV
Harpers West One (Episode 2.14) 24.12.62 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 563) 01.01.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 566) 11.01.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 569) 22.01.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 572) 01.02.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 575) 12.02.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 578) 22.02.63 * ATV ‘Never Leave Me’ 24 Hour Call 03.03.63 * ATV (as ‘William Hood’) Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 581) 05.03.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 584) 15.03.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 587) 26.03.63 * ATV
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Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 590) 05.04.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 594) 12.04.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 596) 26.04.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 599) 07.05.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 602) 17.05.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 605) 28.05.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 608) 07.06.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 611) 18.06.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 626) 09.08.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 629) 20.08.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 633) 03.09.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 639) 24.09.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 640) 27.09.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 645) 15.10.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 646) 18.10.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 651) 05.11.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 652) 08.11.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 657) 26.11.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 658) 29.11.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 663) 17.12.63 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 664) 20.12.63 * ATV
Dr Finlay’s Casebook ‘The Hallelujah Stakes’ 10.05.64 * BBC1
Dr Finlay’s Casebook ‘The True Lochiel’ (as ‘Robin Baker’) 24.05.64 * BBC1 ‘The Old Indomitable’ Dr Finlay’s Casebook 31.05.64 * BBC1 (with William Woods) ‘The Doctor Cried’ Dr Finlay’s Casebook 28.06.64 * BBC1 (with Alan Gosling)
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‘Charity, Dr Finlay’ Dr Finlay’s Casebook 14.02.65 BBC1 (from a story by Arthur Swinson)
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 792 – as ‘William Hood’) 12.03.65 * ATV
Public Eye ‘‘And A Very Fine Fiddle Has He’’ 13.03.65 * ABC
No Hiding Place ‘Blood and Water’ 15.03.65 * Rediffusion
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 793 – as ‘William Hood’) 16.03.65 * ATV
‘You Think It’ll Be Marvellous – Public Eye 27.03.65 * ABC But it’s Always a Rabbit’
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 798 – as ‘William Hood’) 02.04.65 * ATV
Emergency Ward 10 (Episode 799 – as ‘William Hood’) 06.04.65 * ATV
No Hiding Place ‘A Cry for Help’ 21.06.65 * Rediffusion
Undermind ‘Waves of Sound’ 10.07.65 ABC
Undermind ‘End Signal’ 17.07.65 ABC (Episode 10 – credited 199 Park Lane 03.09.65 * BBC1 with ‘Additional Dialogue’) 199 Park Lane (Episode 11 – uncredited re-write) 07.09.65 * BBC1
199 Park Lane (Episode 12 – uncredited re-write) 10.09.65 * BBC1
No Hiding Place ‘Run Johnny, Run’ 15.12.65 * Rediffusion
No Hiding Place ‘The Night Walker’ 15.06.66 * Rediffusion
No Hiding Place ‘Golden Boy’ 06.07.66 * Rediffusion
Public Eye ‘It Had to Be a Mouse’ 20.08.66* ABC ‘Twenty Pounds of Heart Public Eye 17.09.66 * ABC and Muscle’ ‘Fifty Million Taste Buds Intrigue 19.11.66 * ABC Can’t Be Wrong’ Mr Rose ‘The Jolly Swagman’ 17.03.67 Granada
Mr Rose ‘The Unquiet Ghost’ 24.03.67 Granada
Market in Honey Lane ‘Snap’ 24.04.67 ATV
No Hiding Place ‘Who Is This Mortimer?’ 08.06.67 * Rediffusion
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‘The Matchmakers’ (by Louis Marks, Market in Honey Lane 01.02.68 * ATV based on an idea by Robert Holmes’)
Market in Honey Lane ‘The Organisers’ 22.02.68 * ATV ‘It Must Be the Architecture – Public Eye 23.03.68 * ABC Can’t Be the Climate’ ‘It’s Learning About the Public Eye 30.03.68 * ABC Lies That Hurts’ Mr Rose ‘The Frozen Swede’ 31.05.68 Granada
Frontier ‘Mutiny’ 04.09.68 * Thames
Honey Lane (Episode 1.07) 22.10.68 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.08) 24.10.68 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.17) 26.11.68* ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.18) 28.11.68 * ATV ATV-ITC / The Saint ‘The Scales of Justice’ 01.12.68 BAMORE Honey Lane (Episode 1.25) 24.12.68 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.26) 26.12.68 * ATV
Doctor Who ‘The Krotons’ Episode One 28.12.68 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Krotons’ Episode Two 04.01.69 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Krotons’ Episode Three 11.01.69 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Krotons’ Episode Four 18.01.69 BBC1
Honey Lane (Episode 1.33) 20.01.69* ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.34) 21.01.69 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.41) 17.02.69 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.42) 18.02.69 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.46) 04.03.69 * ATV
Doctor Who ‘The Space Pirates’ Episode One 08.03.69 * BBC1
The Inside Man ‘The Spy Vanishes’ 14.03.69 LWT
Doctor Who ‘The Space Pirates’ Episode Two 15.03.69 BBC1
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Honey Lane (Episode 1.49) 17.03.69 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 1.50) 18.03.69 * ATV
Doctor Who ‘The Space Pirates’ Episode Three 22.03.69 * BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Space Pirates’ Episode Four 29.03.69 * BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Space Pirates’ Episode Five 05.04.69 * BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Space Pirates’ Episode Six 12.04.69 * BBC1
Fraud Squad ‘Turbot on Ice’ 20.05.69 ATV
Fraud Squad ‘Last Exit to Liechtenstein’ 03.06.69 ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 2.02) 17.07.69 * ATV
Fraud Squad ‘Anybody Here Seen Kelly?’ 12.08.69 ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 2.06) 14.08.69 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 2.09) 04.09.69 * ATV
Honey Lane (Episode 2.12) 25.09.69 * ATV
Happy Ever After ‘The Prank’ 16.12.69 ATV
Doctor Who ‘Spearhead from Space’ Episode One 03.01.70 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘Spearhead from Space’ Episode Two 10.01.70 BBC1 ‘Spearhead from Space’ Episode Doctor Who 17.01.70 BBC1 Three Doctor Who ‘Spearhead from Space’ Episode Four 24.01.70 BBC1
Fraud Squad ‘The Price of a Copper’ 12.12.70 ATV
Doctor Who ‘Terror of the Autons’ Episode One 02.01.71 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘Terror of the Autons’ Episode Two 09.01.71 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘Terror of the Autons’ Episode Three 16.01.71 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘Terror of the Autons’ Episode Four 23.01.71 BBC1
Doomwatch ‘The Inquest’ 01.03.71 BBC1
Trial ‘Mister X’ 28.10.71 * BBC1
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Spyder’s Web ‘Nobody’s Strawberry Fool’ 31.03.72 ATV
Dead of Night ‘Return Flight’ 12.11.72 BBC2
Doctor Who ‘Carnival of Monsters’ Episode One 27.01.73 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘Carnival of Monsters’ Episode Two 03.02.73 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘Carnival of Monsters’ Episode Three 10.02.73 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘Carnival of Monsters’ Episode Four 17.02.73 BBC1
The Regiment ‘Depot’ 02.03.73 BBC1
The Regiment ‘North West Frontier’ 04.05.73 BBC1
Warship ‘The Drop’ 05.07.73 BBC1
Spy Trap ‘A Perfect Victim’ 09.10.73 * BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Time Warrior’ Part One 15.12.73 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Time Warrior’ Part Two 22.12.73 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Time Warrior’ Part Three 29.12.73 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Time Warrior’ Part Four 05.01.74 BBC1
Dixon of Dock Green ‘The Unwanted’ 26.01.74 * BBC1
General Hospital (Episode 145) 07.03.74 * ATV
General Hospital (Episode 146) 08.03.74 * ATV
Doctor Who ‘The Ark In Space’ Part One 25.01.75 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Ark In Space’ Part Two 01.02.75 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Ark In Space’ Part Three 08.02.75 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Ark In Space’ Part Four 15.02.75 BBC1 ‘Pyramids of Mars’ Part One Doctor Who 25.10.75 BBC1 (as ‘Stephen Harris’) ‘Pyramids of Mars’ Part Two Doctor Who 01.11.75 BBC1 (as ‘Stephen Harris’) ‘Pyramids of Mars’ Part Three Doctor Who 08.11.75 BBC1 (as ‘Stephen Harris’) ‘Pyramids of Mars’ Part Four Doctor Who 15.11.75 BBC1 (as ‘Stephen Harris’)
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‘The Brain of Morbius’ Part One Doctor Who 03.01.76 BBC1 (as ‘Robin Bland’) ‘The Brain of Morbius’ Part Two Doctor Who 10.01.76 BBC1 (as ‘Robin Bland’) ‘The Brain of Morbius’ Part Three Doctor Who 17.01.76 BBC1 (as ‘Robin Bland’) ‘The Brain of Morbius’ Part Four Doctor Who 24.01.76 BBC1 (as ‘Robin Bland’) Doctor Who ‘The Deadly Assassin’ Part One 30.10.76 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Deadly Assassin’ Part Two 06.11.76 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Deadly Assassin’ Part Three 13.11.76 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Deadly Assassin’ Part Four 20.11.76 BBC1 ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’ Doctor Who 26.02.77 BBC1 Part One ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’ Doctor Who 05.03.77 BBC1 Part Two ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’ Doctor Who 12.03.77 BBC1 Part Three ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’ Doctor Who 19.03.77 BBC1 Part Four ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’ Doctor Who 26.03.77 BBC1 Part Five ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’ Doctor Who 02.04.77 BBC1 Part Six On the Run (Untransmitted Pilot) c1977 * LWT
Doctor Who ‘The Sun Makers’ Part One 26.11.77 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Sun Makers’ Part Two 03.12.77 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Sun Makers’ Part Three 10.12.77 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Sun Makers’ Part Four 17.12.77 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Ribos Operation’ Part One 02.09.78 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Ribos Operation’ Part Two 09.09.78 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Ribos Operation’ Part Three 16.09.78 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Ribos Operation’ Part Four 23.09.78 BBC1
Scene ‘The Future’ 12.10.78 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Power of Kroll’ Part One 23.12.78 BBC1
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Doctor Who ‘The Power of Kroll’ Part Two 30.12.78 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Power of Kroll’ Part Three 06.01.79 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Power of Kroll’ Part Four 13.01.79 BBC1
Blake’s 7 ‘Killer’ 20.02.79 BBC1
Blake’s 7 ‘Gambit’ 20.03.79 BBC1 ‘The Case of the Arabian Kidnap’ Jukes of Piccadilly 25.02.80 Thames Part One ‘The Case of the Arabian Kidnap’ Jukes of Piccadilly 03.03.80 Thames Part Two Jukes of Piccadilly ‘Dulverton Green’ Part One 10.03.80 Thames
Jukes of Piccadilly ‘Dulverton Green’ Part Two 17.03.80 Thames
Shoestring ‘Mocking Bird’ (as ‘William Hood’) 19.10.80 BBC1 ‘The Farmer Had a Wife’ Shoestring 02.11.80 BBC1 (as ‘William Hood’) Episode One (from the novel The Nightmare Man 01.05.81 BBC1 by David Wiltshire) Episode Two (from the novel The Nightmare Man 08.05.81 BBC1 by David Wiltshire) Episode Three (from the novel The Nightmare Man 15.05.81 BBC1 by David Wiltshire) Episode Four (from the novel The Nightmare Man 22.05.81 BBC1 by David Wiltshire) Into the Labyrinth ‘Shadrach’ 07.09.81 HTV
Blake’s 7 ‘Traitor’ 12.10.81 BBC1
Blake’s 7 ‘Orbit’ 07.12.81 BBC1
Into the Labyrinth ‘Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde’ 11.08.82 HTV
Juliet Bravo ‘A Breach of the Peace’ 02.10.82 BBC1 ‘Prime Target’ Bergerac 30.01.83 BBC1 (with Robert Banks Stewart) Bergerac ‘A Cry in the Night’ 14.01.84 BBC1
Miracles Take Longer (Episode 13) 20.02.84 Thames
Miracles Take Longer (Episode 14) 27.02.84 Thames
Miracles Take Longer (Episode 15) 27.02.84 Thames
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Miracles Take Longer (Episode 16) 28.02.84 Thames
Miracles Take Longer (Episode 18) 06.03.84 Thames
Doctor Who ‘The Caves of Androzani’ Part One 08.03.84 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Caves of Androzani’ Part Two 09.03.84 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Caves of Androzani’ Part Three 15.03.84 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Caves of Androzani’ Part Four 16.03.84 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Two Doctors’ Part One 16.02.85 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Two Doctors’ Part Two 23.02.85 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Two Doctors’ Part Three 02.03.85 BBC1 Callendar ‘The Block’ (by Jim Hawkins, Timeslip 28.12.85 Company for from a story by Robert Holmes) Yorkshire TV Doctor Who ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ Part One 06.09.86 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ Part Two 13.09.86 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ Part Three 20.09.86 BBC1
Doctor Who ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ Part Four 27.09.86 BBC1 ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ Doctor Who 29.11.86 BBC1 Part Thirteen Bergerac ‘Winner Takes All’ 10.01.87 BBC1
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