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name: "Gareth Roberts"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gareth-roberts"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "5 June 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T10:47:50.558960+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gareth Roberts

Writer. Born 5 June 1968 in United Kingdom.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 5 June 1968, United Kingdom
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Roberts_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5522961, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1214510

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md) (78)

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## Biography

Gareth Roberts is a British television screenwriter, novelist and columnist. Born in 1968, he studied drama at King Alfred's College and Liverpool Polytechnic. He began his career writing novels for Virgin Publishing's Doctor Who ranges in the 1990s and later contributed to soap operas including Emmerdale.

Roberts is best known for his work on Doctor Who (2005), for which he wrote the episodes 'The Shakespeare Code' (2007), 'The Unicorn and the Wasp' (2008), 'The Lodger' (2010) and 'Closing Time' (2011), and co-wrote 'The Caretaker' (2014). He also wrote extensively for the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007) and contributed episodes to The Librarians (2014). In addition to television, he has written numerous Doctor Who novels and short stories.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, shannonsullivan.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (2005), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Librarians* (2014), series, Writer
- *The End of the Line?* (2011), Acting
- *Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead* (2009), Writer
- *Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983* (2008), Acting
- *The Sarah Jane Adventures* (2007), series, Writer
- *A Matter of Time* (2007), Acting
- *The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane* (2007), Writer
- *TARDISodes* (2006), series, Writer
- *Swinging* (2005), series, Writer
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *Serial Thrillers* (2004), Acting
- *Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)* (2000), series, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Hugo Awards 2010: Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (nominated), for *Doctor Who*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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