Donald Tosh

Acting

Donald Tosh

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Mar 16, 1935 (90 years old)
Death date
Dec 03, 2019

Donald Tosh

Known For

The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years Behind The Scenes
5h 0m
Movie 2021

The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years Behind The Scenes

Presented by “voice of the Daleks” Nicholas Briggs, these six...

The End of the Line?
0h 43m
Movie 2011

The End of the Line?

Once the nation's favourite, by its third year Doctor Who...

Dennis Spooner: Wanna Write a Television Series?
0h 18m
Movie 2009

Dennis Spooner: Wanna Write a Television Series?

A look at writer Dennis Spooner’s work on Doctor Who.

Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell
0h 58m
Movie 1999

Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell

As the very first Doctor, William Hartnell created the character...

Biography

Donald Tosh (16 March 1935 – 3 December 2019) was a BBC screenwriter who contributed to Doctor Who in 1965. He was the last surviving script editor and writer from the William Hartnell era. Before working on Doctor Who Tosh was briefly script editor on the series Compact, and had helped to develop the show that eventually became Coronation Street. Tosh was the story editor for the Doctor Who stories between The Time Meddler and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, working with producers Verity Lambert and John Wiles. On Tosh's final story, The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve by John Lucarotti, Tosh performed a substantial rewrite of the scripts, both to align them with historical accuracy and also to accommodate William Hartnell's dual role as both the Doctor and the Abbot of Amboise. On the final episode the story editor's credit was given over to his successor Gerry Davis and Tosh was co-credited. He also performed an extensive re-write of The Celestial Toymaker by Brian Hayles. Most of this work, however, was in turn rewritten by Davis. Tosh claimed that the trilogic game was the sole retention from his version of the script.