Status Updates From Script Doctor: The Inside S...

I wasn't the first script editor to sense that Marc [Platt] had talent, and the peculiar knack that might make for a really good Doctor Who writer. The first piece of writing he'd ever sent in to the show had elicited a letter from the legendary Doctor Who script editor (and writer) Robert Holmes, who had said, 'Of the many unsolicited scripts I receive every year, yours was the only one of any merit whatsoever.'