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- Robert Banks Stewart (born in Edinburgh 16 July 1931) is a former writer for television, now retired. He began as a story editor at Pinewood Studios and for Thames Television where 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. For HTV, he wrote 5 episodes of Arthur of the Britons. 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 following year he wrote The Seeds of Doom for Doctor Who, which drew from such sources as the horror serial The Quatermass Experiment and the John Wyndham novel The Day of the Triffids. The Seeds Of Doom was Robert Banks Stewart's last credited Doctor Who serial, although a story outline written for the subsequent season and entitled The Foe from the Future would inspire elements of Holmes' The Talons Of Weng-Chiang. The Foe from the Future is due to be adapted by Big Finish Productions as an audio play in 2012. Robert Banks Stewart continued working in television as a writer, script editor and producer, creating Shoestring for the BBC in 1978 and following this up with the hit detective drama series Bergerac. He later produced The Darling Buds Of May, which gave Catherine Zeta Jones one of her early TV opportunities. His final credit for television was for the adaptation of My Uncle Silas, starring Albert Finney, broadcast between 2001 and 2003.
- Robert Banks Stewart er en manusforfatter. Han har bidratt med manus til Thames Televisions Callan, Special Branch, The Sweeney og Owner Occupied. Han skrev også manusene The Master Minds og Quick-Quick Slow Death for serien The Avengers. Manusredigerer Robert Holmes inviterte Stewart til et møte for å diskutere manusideer for serien Doctor Who i begynnelsen av 1974. Stewart tenkte ut en seks episoder lang historie kalt The Secret of Loch Ness. Han syntes at Skottlands legendariske monster i Loch Ness ville være perfekt for en Doctor Who-historie fordi det fantes så få detaljer om monsteret. Historien fokuserte opprinnelig på monsteret, men Holmes foreslo at Stewart skulle konsentrere seg om de utenomjordiske zygonene, som kan forandre utseende. Arbeidstitlene på historien var The Loch, The Secret of the Loch, The Loch Ness Monster og The Zygons før de endte opp med Terry of the Zygons. Året etter skrev han The Seeds of Doom for Doctor Who. Begge historien ble vist som en del av sesong 13. Denne historien var inspirert av The Quatermass Experiment og John Wyndhams roman The Day of the Triffids. Begge handlet om at floraen agriper mennesker og førstnevnte handler også om at et utenomjordisk monster infiserer en mann og forvandler ham til en plante. Det er uvisst om The Seeds of Doom opprinnelig ble laget som en fire eller seks episoder lang historie. Stewart har selv sagt at den alltid var beregnet å vøre seks episoder lang, men andre kilder antyder at dette ikke er tilfellet. De sier at den fire episoder lange Seeds var ment å følge etter en to episoder lang historie kalt The Angurth skrevet av Eric Pringle, som ble bestilt på slutten av sommeren i 1975. Da denne ikke ble produsert, søkte produsent Philip Hinchcliffe om lov til å forkorte sesong 14 til 24 episoder. Bill Slater, som var daværende sjef for serier, sa nei. Istedenfor måtte Robert Holmes og regissør Douglas Camfield, som skulle regissere Seeds, skrive om historien slik at de fikk en to episoder lang prolog som foregår i Antarktis. The Seeds of Doom var Stewarts siste historie for Doctor Who. Et utkast han skrev ble dog brukt som basis for Holmes' The Talons Of Weng-Chiang året etter. Stewart fortsatte å jobbe som forfatter, manusredigerer og produsent og han hjalp til med å utvikle seriene Shoestring, Bergerac og The Darling Buds of May.
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- Robert Banks Stewart (born in Edinburgh 16 July 1931) is a former writer for television, now retired. He began as a story editor at Pinewood Studios and for Thames Television where 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. For HTV, he wrote 5 episodes of Arthur of the Britons.
- Robert Banks Stewart er en manusforfatter. Han har bidratt med manus til Thames Televisions Callan, Special Branch, The Sweeney og Owner Occupied. Han skrev også manusene The Master Minds og Quick-Quick Slow Death for serien The Avengers. Manusredigerer Robert Holmes inviterte Stewart til et møte for å diskutere manusideer for serien Doctor Who i begynnelsen av 1974. Stewart tenkte ut en seks episoder lang historie kalt The Secret of Loch Ness.
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