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name: "John Lucarotti"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "20 May 1926"
died: "20 November 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:44:12.834638+00:00"
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# John Lucarotti

Writer. Born 20 May 1926 in Aldershot. Died 20 November 1994.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 20 May 1926, Aldershot
- **Died:** 20 November 1994
- **Active:** 1961–1963
- **Works often with:** Bill Strutton, Dennis Spooner, Geoffrey Orme, Malcolm Hulke, Peter Ling, Robert Banks Stewart

## Biography

John Lucarotti was a British-Canadian screenwriter. Born in Aldershot, Hampshire, he served ten years in the Royal Navy after the Second World War before moving to Canada in 1950. He began his writing career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, contributing scripts for radio and television series including Radisson.

He later returned to Britain and wrote six episodes of *The Avengers* (1961) and fifteen episodes of *Doctor Who* (1963), comprising the serials *Marco Polo*, *The Aztecs* and *The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve*. He also wrote thirty-two episodes of *The Troubleshooters* and created series including *Operation Patch* and *The Ravelled Thread*. Lucarotti novelised his *Doctor Who* stories for Target Books and died in Paris in 1994.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *The Avengers* (1961), Writer

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