Robert Banks Stewart

Robert Banks Stewart was a writer for television, now retired. For Thames Television he contributed scripts to the programmes Callan, Special Branch, The Sweeney and Owner Occupied. He also wrote The Avengers scripts The Master Minds and Quick-Quick Slow Death. In casting about for new writers for Doctor Who script editor Robert Holmes invited Stewart to discuss ideas for the programme. After their meeting in early 1974, Stewart devised a storyli... more

Robert Banks Stewart was a writer for television, now retired. For Thames Television he contributed scripts to the programmes Callan, Special Branch, The Sweeney and Owner Occupied. He also wrote The Avengers scripts The Master Minds and Quick-Quick Slow Death. In casting about for new writers for Doctor Who script editor Robert Holmes invited Stewart to discuss ideas for the programme. After their meeting in early 1974, Stewart devised a storyline for a six-part adventure called The Secret Of Loch Ness. Stewart felt that the Scotland's legendary Loch Ness Monster would make an ideal basis for a story because there were so few details about the mythical creature. Stewart's Although at first focusing on the Loch Ness Monster itself, Holmes encouraged Stewart to concentrate more on the Zygons, the shape-shifting aliens of the story. As the story evolved, it was known variously as The Loch, The Secret Of The Lock, The Loch Ness Monster, The Zygons and finally Terror of the Zygons. The... less