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name: "Malcolm Hulke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/malcolm-hulke"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 November 1924"
died: "6 June 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:44:07.662125+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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# Malcolm Hulke

Writer. Born 21 November 1924 in Hampstead. Died 6 June 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 November 1924, Hampstead
- **Died:** 6 June 1979
- **Active:** 1961–1963
- **Works often with:** Bill Strutton, Dennis Spooner, Geoffrey Orme, John Lucarotti, Peter Ling, Robert Banks Stewart

## Biography

Malcolm Hulke was a British television writer. He contributed scripts to *The Avengers* (1961) in the 1960s and wrote multiple episodes of *Doctor Who* (1963) between 1967 and 1974, including *The Faceless Ones*, *The War Games* (co-written with Terrance Dicks), *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Sea Devils* and *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*.

Hulke also wrote for other series such as *Danger Man* and *Crossroads*, and co-wrote early science-fiction serials including the *Pathfinders* series. He authored the screenwriting manual *Writing for Television in the 70s* (1974) and novelised several of his *Doctor Who* stories for Target Books. He collaborated frequently with Terrance Dicks on scripts and the 1972 book *The Making of Doctor Who*.

*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), Teleplay, Writer

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