Robert Banks Stewart

Robert Banks Stewart

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BiographyRobert Banks Stewart (born Robert Stewart; 16 July 1931 – 14 January 2016) was a Scottish screenwriter, television producer and former journalist. Stewart contributed extensively to drama for the BBC and ITV, among other networks, for several decades. He is best known for creating and producing the series Shoestring (1979) and Bergerac (1981), which were both highly popular, with Stewart being nominated for a BAFTA for the former.

Stewart also contributed to the science-fiction television series Doctor Who, writing two stories which have retrospectively been considered among its best, and created the Zygons, which went on to be recurring antagonists in the programme. He also produced the television series Lovejoy (1986) and The Darling Buds of May (1991), with the latter garnering one of the highest ratings for a new series of British TV.

Stewart was born and raised in Edinburgh. Early in his life, he would begin writing, for which he would win a Burns essay prize. Leaving schooling at age 15, Stewart would contribute to a variety of news agencies prior to joining the television industry. Stewart died in 2016 due to cancer, aged 84.

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