Talk:Peter Grimwade

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Turlough rights edit

Latest comment: 17 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

When the BBC gave the publisher W. H. Allen the rights to use Vislor Turlough in the novel Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma despite the rights being owned by Grimwade, W. H. Allen offered him a chance to publish an original novel.

I though Turlough was created by the production office - certainly all I've read suggests that he was originally going to be introduced in a different story and that Grimwade was asked to work the character into his script. Timrollpickering 11:40, 10 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

What information I have from the Handbooks, etc is that it was Saward and JNT who liked the idea of an "evil" companion, JNT writing the outline for Turlough. Originally he was supposed to be introduced in The Space Whale by Pat Mills, but when that fell through, Grimwade's Mawdryn Undead was rapidly pushed forward into production and Turlough and the Black Guardian added to the mix. The idea that Grimwade owned the copyright to Turlough seems to come from the On Target biography that is linked from the article, but I'm not sure where the biography gets its info from and how reliable it is. Certainly there might have been some circumstances whereby Grimwade may have owned some rights to Turlough for whatever reason — it's not implausible — but I don't know what those are, if they indeed did exist. Anyone have any further info? --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 12:12, 10 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

I added that sentence, and you are exactly right with where I got the information. If you want to take it out pending more reliable confimation, feel free. Tim! (talk) 17:00, 10 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

There seemed to be a convention of giving writers the rights to companions at the time - writer Johnny Byrne holds the rights to the companion "Nyssa".

That's a very different situation as Nyssa was created by Byrne as a character in his Keeper of Traken script and the production office decided to use the character. Similarly the Brigadier, K9 and Leela were all conceived as one-off characters but were turned into ongoing regulars. Otherwise most regular characters originated in the production office and as such are BBC copyright. Timrollpickering 18:02, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

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