Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler (11 June 1927 – 27 May 1981[1]) was an English medical scientist, parapsychologist, and science fiction screenwriter and author.

Pedler was the head of the electron microscopy department at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London, where he published a number of papers.

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Pedler died of a heart attack at his home in Doddington, Kent, while completing production of Mind Over Matter, a series for Thames Television on the paranormal that he presented with Tony Bastable.

Pedler is buried at All Saints Church in the Kent village of Graveney, where he lived before moving to nearby Doddington.