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unusual facts about Gareth Roberts



Death in the Clouds

First aired on 17 May 2008, an episode of the BBC Television science fiction drama Doctor Who entitled "The Unicorn and the Wasp" by Gareth Roberts makes reference to the novel in a plot in which Christie's well-recorded disappearance in 1926 was explained by the intervention of a Vespiform – a shape-changing alien resembling a giant wasp.

Edmund Crispin

Gareth Roberts has stated that the tone of his Doctor Who novel The Well-Mannered War was modelled upon Crispin's style.

Night and the Doctor

This episode takes place prior to "Closing Time" by Gareth Roberts and shows the night spent by Craig Owens (James Corden) before the Doctor pays him a visit.


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