Brian Hayles

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| name = Brian Hayles

| image = Brian Hayles.jpg

| caption = Hayles in 1968

| birth_name = Brian Leonard Hayles

| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|3|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1978|10|30|1931|3|7|df=y}}

| death_place = Coventry, England

| occupation = Writer

}}

Brian Leonard Hayles (7 March 1931Ancestry/Find My Past – 30 October 1978) was an English television and film writer, most notably for the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.[https://books.google.com/books?id=7ARYuj4ecAoC&dq=Brian+Hayles+1930&pg=PA161 Biographical Details of Brian Hayles in: Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors, Brian Hayles, Random House, 2012, P 161]

Doctor Who

Hayles wrote six stories for Doctor Who and is best known for his creation of the Celestial Toymaker{{cite web|url=https://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/brian-hayles-various/|title=Brian Hayles (Various)|date=20 November 2009|access-date=21 July 2018}} in the 1966 story of the same name, the Ice Warriors, introduced in the 1967 story of the same name, and the feudal planet Peladon, the setting for The Curse of Peladon and its sequel The Monster of Peladon. His other stories were The Smugglers{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/cd/smugglers/|title=BBC - Cult - Doctor Who - CD - The Smugglers|website=BBC|access-date=21 July 2018}} and The Seeds of Death.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/seedsofdeath/detail.shtml|title = BBC One - Doctor Who}}

Novels

In addition to script writing for the radio series The Archers,{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-20/doctor-who-the-creators-of-the-daleks-cybermen-and-ice-warriors--revealed|title=Doctor Who: the creators of the Daleks, Cybermen and Ice Warriors – revealed|access-date=21 July 2018}} Hayles penned a novel based on the soap{{Cite web|url=https://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php/Brian_Hayles_obituary|title = Brian Hayles obituary - the Doctor Who Cuttings Archive}} called Spring at Brookfield (Tandem, 1975) set in the period between the two world wars. His other books included novelisations of his Doctor Who serials The Curse of Peladon (Target, 1974) and The Ice Warriors (Target, 1976),{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hayles_brian|title = Authors : Hayles, Brian : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia}} an adaptation of his scripts for the BBC drama The Moon Stallion (Mirror Books, 1978), and two horror plays for children, The Curse of the Labyrinth (Dobson, 1976) and Hour of the Werewolf (Dobson, 1976). In 1979, NEL published, posthumously, his original novel Goldhawk, a heist-thriller set around Heathrow Airport.Goldhawk, by Brian Hayles, New English Library, 1979, {{ISBN|0450042650}}.

Writing

Apart from Doctor Who, Hayles wrote for such television series as The Regiment,{{cite web|url=http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php/Brian_Hayles_obituary|title=Brian Hayles obituary - The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive|website=cuttingsarchive.org|access-date=21 July 2018}} Barlow at Large, Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown, United!, Legend of Death, Public Eye, Z-Cars, BBC Playhouse, The Wednesday Thriller and Suspense. He also wrote the screenplays for the feature films Nothing But the Night (1972) and Warlords of Atlantis (1978).{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1977/film/reviews/warlords-of-atlantis-1200424099/|title = Warlords of Atlantis|date = January 1978}} The novelisation of the latter by Paul Victor (Futura, 1978) included a preface by Hayles entitled 'The Thinking Behind Atlantis' in which he explained the origins of the film's central concepts. Hayles contributed to a BBC series called Slim John which was an English Language course taught via the medium of science fiction scenarios.{{cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/06/20/english-as-a-strange-language-slim-john/|title=English as a Strange Language: Slim John|first=Mark|last=Asch|date=20 June 2013|access-date=21 July 2018}}

Hayles's final screenplay was for Arabian Adventure (1979), which he completed shortly before his death on 30 October 1978. The novelisation of the film by Keith Miles (Mirror Books, 1979) was dedicated to his memory.