Louis Marks

Louis Frank Marks (23 March 1928 – 17 September 2010) was a British script writer and producer mainly for BBC Television. His career began in the late 1950s and continued into the new century. Marks attended Balliol College, Oxford and ultimately gained a DPhil. His early work was as a writer for television. He began by contributing to The Adventures of Robin Hood beginning with an episode screened in 1958 and The Four Just Men (1960), both for Sapphire Films/ITC. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Man Who Finally Died (1963), adapted from a television serial by Lewis Greifer, and Special Branch for Thames Television (1970). He also wrote for Danger Man (US: Secret Agent, 1964), and for the Doomwatch science fiction series and for Doctor Who on four occasions. The first of these, "Planet of Giants", opened the second season of the programme in 1964. His second script was "Day of the Daleks" (1972) and as originally written, the serial revolved around the Ogrons instead of the Daleks. During the Tom Baker years he wrote the "Jekyll and Hyde" script for "Planet of Evil"; and then "The Masque of Mandragora", which drew on his academic background and studies in Renaissance Italy. He also served as a script editor on programmes such as Bedtime Stories (1974); The Stone Tape (1972); and No Exit (1972