
The story would see the Doctor and Ace in the future, land in a metro station, and discover transportation portals that could lead any body throughout the Solar System, but one of the portals leads a gate way to hell. Īfter failing to feature Aaronovitch's “ Knight Fall” storyline to production, Aaronovitch submitted a story in June 1987, entitled Transit. Script editor Andrew Cartmel liked the story ideas, but felt that the script was inappropriate for the series and had too many supporting characters.

In May 1987, Aaronovitch submitted “Knight Fall” to the Doctor Who production office for Season 25. He also co-wrote a Doctor Who audio drama for Big Finish, and has written a number of Blake's 7 spin-off audio dramas.

He has also written a novel and several short stories published by Big Finish Productions featuring the character of Bernice Summerfield, who was originally developed in the New Adventures. He subsequently wrote or co-wrote three Doctor Who spin-off novels in the Virgin Publishing New Adventures range he created the character Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart who became a semi-regular in the New Adventures. He wrote one episode for Casualty (1990) and was then a regular writer on the science fiction series Jupiter Moon. Doctor Who and television work Īaronovitch wrote two Doctor Who serials, Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) and Battlefield (1989), for BBC television, and also the novelization of the former.

He also wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from Doctor Who and Blake's 7.īorn in Camden, Aaronovitch is the son of the economist Sam Aaronovitch who was a senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the younger brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and journalist David Aaronovitch. He is the author of the Rivers of London series of novels. Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.
