From 1966 until the following year, Davis was the story editor of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who,[2] for which he created the character Jamie McCrimmon and co-created the popular cybernetic monsters known as the Cybermen, who continue to make appearances in the show, having been revived in the new run.
[3] Davis briefly returned to writing Doctor Who in 1975, penning the original script for Revenge of the Cybermen,[4] though the transmitted version was heavily rewritten by then script-editor Robert Holmes.
[6] Doomwatch ran for three seasons on BBC1 from 1970 to 1972 and spawned a novel written by Davis and Pedler,[7] a subsequent cinema film[8] and a 1999 revival on Channel 5.
[9] With Pedler he wrote the science-fiction novels Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater (1971), expanded from their script for the first episode of Doomwatch; Brainrack (1974); and The Dynostar Menace (1975).
[11] In late 1989 he and Terry Nation made a joint but unsuccessful bid to take over production of Doctor Who and reformat the series mainly for the American market.