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Stephen Gallagher

Stephen Gallagher

English screenwriter and novelist

This article is about the writer. For the cyclist, see Stephen Gallagher (cyclist). For the golfer, see Stephen Gallacher.

Stephen Gallagher (born 13 October 1954) is an English screenwriter and novelist. Gallagher was born in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Career

Gallagher has written novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series Doctor Who — for which he wrote two serials, Warriors' Gate (1981) and Terminus (1983)—as well as for the series Rosemary & Thyme and Bugs, for two seasons of which he was script consultant along with Brian Clemens. He adapted his own novel Chimera as a 90 minute dramatized audio drama for BBC Radio 4 in 1985,[1] and as a miniseries of the same name that was shown on ITV in 1991. He also directed the miniseries adaptation of Oktober, as well as writing the feature-length episode The Kingdom of Bones for the BBC series Murder Rooms.

He created and wrote a science-based series for ITV, Eleventh Hour, starring Patrick Stewart as a government science investigator and advisor. The programme was rumoured to be ITV's answer to the new series of Doctor Who, but was more in the tradition of the hard-science thriller. Gallagher's series format was acquired for a US television remake by the CSI trio of CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer and director Danny Cannon. The series aired on CBS and starred Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton.

Life Line, broadcast in 2007, was a two-part supernatural mystery starring Ray Stevenson, Joanne Whalley and Jemima Rooper. Gallagher was later lead writer and story supervisor on NBC's 13-part series Crusoe, screened in 2008/2009, and contributed two episodes to the US version of Eleventh Hour including Medea, the season finale. In 2009 he served as Co-Executive Producer on Bruckheimer's crime show The Forgotten, starring Christian Slater. Legacy, a two-part story for season 16 of the BBC's Silent Witness, was Best Drama winner in the 2013 European Science TV and New Media Awards. He later wrote episodes of Stan Lee's Lucky Man.

Bibliography

Novels

Original

  • The Last Rose of Summer – 1978 (later revised as Dying of Paradise, 1982 as by Stephen Cooper)
  • Chimera (British TV series) – 1982
  • The Ice Belt – 1983 (as Stephen Couper)
  • Follower – 1984
  • Valley of Lights – 1987
  • Oktober (TV series) – 1988
  • Down River – 1989
  • Rain – 1990
  • The Boat House – 1991
  • Nightmare, With Angel – 1992
  • Red, Red Robin – 1995
  • White Bizango – 2002
  • The Spirit Box – 2005
  • The Painted Bride – 2006
  • The Kingdom of Bones – 2007
  • The Bedlam Detective – 2012
  • The Authentic William James – 2016

Omnibus

  • Dying of Paradise: The Trilogy – 2022 (incluiding previously unpublished novel The Babylon Run)

Novelizations

Non-fiction

  • Journeyman: The Art of Chris Moore – 2000

Screenplays

Radio and Audio

  • The Last Rose of Summer – 1977 (6x30’, Piccadilly Radio)
  • Hunters’ Moon – 1978 (8x30, Piccadilly Radio)
  • The Humane Solution – 1979 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre)
  • The Babylon Run – 1979 (4x30, Piccadilly Radio)
  • An Alternative to Suicide – 1979 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre)
  • A Resistance to Pressure – 1980 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre)
  • Chimera – 1985 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre)
  • The Kingston File – 1987 (90’, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre)
  • The Wonderful Visit – 1988 (45’, H. G. Wells adaptation, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Theatre)
  • By the River, Fontainebleau – 1988 (30’, BBC Radio 4 Fear on Four)
  • The Horn – 1989 (30’, BBC Radio 4 Fear on Four)
  • The Visitors’ Book – 1992 (short story,BBC Radio 4, reader Terence Edmond)
  • Life Line – 1993 (30’, BBC Radio 4, Fear on Four)
  • The Bedlam Detective – 2012 (Audiobook, Dreamscape Media, reader Michael Page)
  • The Kingdom of Bones – 2013 (Audiobook, Oakhill Publishing, reader Jonathan Keeble)
  • The Box – 2013 (30’, Hammer Chillers, Bafflegab Productions)
  • The Bedlam Detective – 2014 (Audiobook, Oakhill Publishing, reader Jonathan Keeble)
  • Nightmare Country – 2019 (Doctor Who: The Lost Stories, Big Finish Productions)
  • Warriors’ Gate – 2019 (Audiobook, BBC Audio, reader Jon Culshaw)
  • Casting the Runes – 2019 (M. R. James adaptation, Bafflegab Productions)
  • Terminus – 2019 (Audiobook, BBC Audio, reader Steven Pacey)
  • The Kairos Ring – 2021 (Audio original, BBC Audio, reader Steven Pacey)

Theatre

  • Cheeky Boy – March 2018 (portmanteau drama The Ghost Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, Tristan Bates Theatre, London)

Short fiction

Collections
  • Out of His Mind – 2004 (collection of short stories, winner of the British Fantasy Award)
  • Plots and Misadventures – 2007 (second collection of short stories)
  • Comparative Anatomy: the Best of Stephen Gallagher – 2022 (Subterranean Press)

Comics

  • Faustine: Princess of Tharil - 2023 (Gods and Monsters, Cutaway Comics)
Stories[5]
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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Radio - Chimera, StephenGallagher.com. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Saturn 3: The 1980s' Weirdest Sci-fi Movie". 3 February 2016.
  3. [3]
    "The Restored Novelisation – Stephen Gallagher".
  4. [4]
    Cormack, Morgan. "Doctor Who Target books add 5 new novelisations for 2023". Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  5. [5]
    Short stories unless otherwise noted.
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