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Gareth John Pritchard Roberts (born 1968) is a British television screenwriter and novelist, best known for his work related to the science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He has also worked on various comedy series and soap operas. Roberts studied drama at Liverpool John Moores University (then Liverpool Polytechnic) and has also worked as a clerk at the Court of Appeal. ==''Doctor Who''== During the 1990s, Roberts was associated with the popular range of ''Doctor Who'' spin-off novels published by Virgin Books. He contributed several novels to both their New Adventures and Missing Adventures ranges of ''Doctor Who'' fiction. He also wrote some ''Cracker'' novelisations for Virgin. He continued his association with ''Doctor Who'' in the 2000s, penning several feature articles and comic strips for ''Doctor Who Magazine'', co-writing audio plays and short stories based on the series with Clayton Hickman for Big Finish Productions, and in 2005 writing another ''Doctor Who'' novel, ''Only Human'', based on the characters from the new series launched that year, for BBC Books' New Series Adventures range. A further novel, ''I am a Dalek'', was released in 2006 and featured the Tenth Doctor. ''I am a Dalek'' is part of a Government "Quick Reads initiative". He also co-wrote ''The New Gods'' with Rebecca Levene, the first ''Tomorrow People'' audio drama for Big Finish. Roberts appeared as a contributor to the documentary ''Serial Thrillers'', exploring the popular Philip Hinchcliffe era of ''Doctor Who'' between 1975 and 1977, which featured as an extra on the 2004 DVD release of the serial ''Pyramids of Mars''.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/dvd/pyramidsofmars/extras.shtml〕 On 25 December 2005 a special 'interactive' mini-episode of ''Doctor Who'' written by Roberts, ''Attack of the Graske'', was broadcast, and can now be accessed on the (BBC website ) (only available to UK Broadband Users). Roberts also wrote a series of "TARDISODEs", short videos available online and via mobile phones promoting the 2006 series of ''Doctor Who''. He has written four full episodes of ''Doctor Who'', "The Shakespeare Code" in 2007, "The Unicorn and the Wasp" in 2008, "The Lodger" in 2010 and "Closing Time" in 2011.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/episode_extras_guide/series_episode_extras_guide〕 He co-wrote 2014's "The Caretaker" with show runner Steven Moffat. Roberts also co-wrote, with Russell T Davies, "Invasion of the Bane", the pilot episode of the ''Doctor Who'' spin-off series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. He wrote two two-part stories for the full series of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', which began broadcasting in the autumn of 2007, and another two two-part stories for the 2008 series. Roberts co-wrote with Davies again for the second of the 2009 specials of ''Doctor Who'', "Planet of the Dead".〔http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/tubetalk/a224345/gareth-roberts-talks-who-sarah-jane.html〕 Gareth Roberts has also written a novelisation of ''Shada'', the uncompleted Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor) story written by Douglas Adams, that was due to be the finale of season seventeen of ''Doctor Who'' in 1979 before it was abandoned due to industrial action. The book was published by BBC Books on 15 March 2012.〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Shada-Douglas-Adams/dp/1849903271/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332273547&sr=8-1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gareth Roberts (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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