Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964)[2] is an English author and screenwriter. He is the author of the series of novels Rivers of London. He also wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from Doctor Who and Blake's 7.
He wrote one episode for Casualty (1990) and was then a regular writer on the science fiction series Jupiter Moon.[9]
He subsequently wrote or co-wrote three Doctor Who spin-off novels in the
Virgin PublishingNew Adventures range; he created the character
Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart who became a semi-regular in the New Adventures. He has also written a novel and several short stories published by
Big Finish Productions featuring the character of
Bernice Summerfield, who was originally developed in the New Adventures. He also co-wrote a Doctor Who audio drama for Big Finish, and has written a number of Blake's 7 spin-off audio dramas.[citation needed]
Proposed serials of “Doctor Who”
Knight Fall
In May 1987, Aaronovitch submitted “Knight Fall” to the Doctor Who production office for
Season 25. The story concerned privatization.[10] Script editor
Andrew Cartmel liked the story ideas, but felt that the script was inappropriate for the series and had too many supporting characters.[10]
Transit
After failing to feature Aaronovitch's “Knight Fall” storyline to production, Aaronovitch submitted a story in June 1987, entitled Transit. The story would see the Doctor and Ace in the future, land in a metro station, and discover transportation portals that could lead any body throughout the Solar System, but one of the portals leads a gate way to hell.[10] Even though it is unexplainable to how Aaronovitch's scripts of “Transit” never came to fruition, he would adapt the story as a book for Virgin New Adventures series in December 1992.[10]
Bad Destination
During Summer of 1988, Aaronovitch submitted a three-part adventure story for Doctor Who’s 27th Season (which never came to fruition), and was called ”Bad Destination”. The story would feature The Doctor seeing Ace as a captain of a hospital spaceship which is being under attack by the Metatraxi.[11] The story, however, was abandoned when, in September 1989, the BBC cancelled Doctor Who after its
26 Season, due to declining audiences.[10][11] In July 2011,
Big Finish Productions released the story as
Earth Aid, by Aaronovitch and Cartmel.[10]