David Ralph Martin (1 January 1935 – 30 March 2007)[1] was an English television and film writer.
David contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979 including: For all of these, Martin collaborated with Bob Baker.
They also worked together on the 1975 children's science fantasy television serial Sky and Into the Labyrinth.
At the beginning of 2007 Martin, a smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer; he died of the disease in March.
[2] He and his wife Celia (née Constanduros, born 1944),[3] had two children, Leo and Thea; he also had a daughter, Anna, from his first marriage.