David Fisher was a very experienced television writer who wrote many scripts for popular series. He is perhaps best known today for his work on
Doctor Who (1963), for which he wrote five stories during the
Tom Baker years. In later years he collaborated with former
Doctor Who (1963) script editor
Anthony Read on a number of historical books dealing with subjects including
World War Two espionage, the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the
Nazi/Soviet pact of the early 1940s. He lived with his second wife in a
16th-century house in Suffolk.