Anthony Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was an English television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author.
He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, which included a period as a script editor and writer of Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, although he occasionally contributed to televised productions until 1999.
Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a second career as a print author, concentrating largely on World War II histories.
He was also a chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
From 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly in the form of a revival of his television series The Baker Street Boys (1983).
A look at the complex production of the Doctor Who story Underworld, with particular emphasis on the difficulties in achieving the bluescreen virtual studio sets.
Cast and crew look back at the making of The Stones of Blood.
A 30-minute documentary looking at the writing and production of The Pirate Planet.
The cast and crew look back at the making of The Armageddon Factor.
The cast and crew look back at the making of The Androids of Tara.
The genesis and development of the Sontaran race through the history of the series, as told by some of the actors and production team involved. This specially produced documentary includes contributions from Terrance Dicks, Elisabeth Sladen, Anthony Read, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Bob Baker, Eric Saward and Stuart Fell.
A 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams.
Chocky hopes, with Matthew and Albertine's help, to help the human race discover cosmic power, which unlike Earth's finite natural resources, will sustain them for as long as the universe itself exists. But their knowledge has aroused a great deal of interest from the military, and they are willing to take drastic action if they don't get what they want.
A year has passed since Matthew said goodbye to his alien friend, and in the summer holidays he meets Albertine, a mathematical prodigy, with whom he discovers he can communicate telepathically. One day Chocky returns to warn Matthew that they are both in danger. When he returns to tell Albertine, he finds she has disappeared.
Matthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a source of information about life on Earth. As his schoolwork and artistic talent improve dramatically he arouses the suspicion of powerful groups who wish to tap into the amazing fund of knowledge to which he is now party.