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((Short description|Australian screenwriter and novelist))
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| birth_name  = William Harold Strutton
| birth_date  = ((Birth date|1918|2|23|df=yes))
| birth_place = [[South Australia]], [[Australia]]
| death_date  = ((Death date and age|2003|11|23|1918|2|23|df=yes))
| death_place = [[Catalonia]], [[Spain]]
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| known_for   = ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Ivanhoe]]''
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'''William Harold Strutton''' (23 February 1918 &ndash; 23 November 2003)<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1448149/Bill-Strutton.html|title=Obituary: Bill Strutton|date=2003-12-01|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2020-04-25|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235))</ref> was an Australian screenwriter and novelist. He worked on   television shows such as ''[[Ivanhoe (1958 TV series)|Ivanhoe]]'', ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'', ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', ''[[Riptide (Australian TV series)|Riptide]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

==Early life==
Born in [[South Australia]], Bill Strutton won a state scholarship to university at 14 but dropped out after two years to work as an office clerk in Adelaide. At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Australian army. He was captured by [[Battle of Crete|the Germans in Crete]] and sent to [[Stalag]] VII,<ref>((cite web |url=https://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php/Bill_Strutton_obituary |website=The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive |access-date=15 November 2023 |title=Bill Strutton obituary - the Doctor Who Cuttings Archive ))</ref> learning to swear in several languages. It was there he also began to take an interest in writing. He once said: "My first year as a prisoner-of-war was the most interesting in my life. The ensuing three were the most boring, but more instructive, I think, than any university. I learned several languages: German from a Serbian horse-doctor; Spanish from a Basque; a Parisian taxi-driver bequeathed me a startling vocabulary. I also ran a camp newspaper, caught up on my reading, and finally celebrated my liberation by tearing up a novel." After being demobbed, he lived in England. In 1961, he lived with his Australian wife, Marguerite and two children in Woddingham, East Surrey.

==Career==
After the war, he began a career in journalism, and started to write military books in  the mid-fifties. These included ''[[The Secret Invaders]]'', ''[[A Jury of Angels]]'' in 1957 and ''[[Island of Terrible Friends]]'' in 1961.<ref>((cite web |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A6132 |website=AustLit |access-date=15 November 2023 |title=Bill Strutton &#124; AustLit: Discover Australian Stories ))</ref> Also, three films. In 1958, he scripted the ''[[Ivanhoe (1958 TV series)|Ivanhoe]]'' television series which starred [[Roger Moore]]. He wrote for more than fifteen television series in eleven years, the last of which was ''[[Strange Report]]'', starring [[Anthony Quayle]], and several episodes of ''[[Paul Temple (TV series)|Paul Temple]]'' before retiring in 1978 following a heart attack.

His ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story was ''[[The Web Planet]]'' in 1965.<ref>((cite web| url = https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/strutton_bill| title = SFE: Strutton, Bill))</ref> It is remembered as a unique ''Doctor Who'' serial. It was the first programme to feature a completely alien cast, including [[Martin Jarvis (actor)|Martin Jarvis]] as a butterfly [[List of Doctor Who aliens#Menoptera|Menoptera]], and introduced the menacing [[List of Doctor Who aliens#Zarbi|Zarbi]]. Two of its six episodes are amongst the handful of ''Doctor Who'' instalments to be seen by more than 13m people on original transmission. Strutton went on to adapt the serial as the third ''Doctor Who'' novel in 1965. In 1972, he submitted another storyline to ''Doctor Who'' entitled ''The Mega'', but this was rejected. It was later adapted as an audio drama that was released in 2013.

==Death==
Bill Strutton died on 23 November 2003, the day of ''Doctor Who'''s fortieth anniversary,  aged 85 years.

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