Died: 24th December 2019
Episodes Broadcast: 1970

Trevor Ray joined the Doctor Who production office during 1968 as an assistant to script editor Terrance Dicks. He took on a more prominent role the following year, during the making of Season Seven -- the first for Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor. Ray rewrote the script for the initial installment of The Ambassadors Of Death as a guide for its original author, David Whitaker, who was struggling to find a suitable approach. When producers Peter Bryant and Derrick Sherwin were both moved from Doctor Who to the troubled detective series Paul Temple around the start of October 1969, Ray filled in while new producer Barry Letts discharged his preexisting obligations. Ray could also be seen on-screen as a ticket collector in the same season's The Silurians. He left Doctor Who in late 1969 to become the script editor of Paul Temple.

Ray's subsequent career as a writer was limited: he co-created Children Of The Stones and scripted episodes of Raven, later publishing novelisations of both serials. He was more prolific in front of the camera, having already appeared in Z Cars and the 1969 film Lock Up Your Daughters!. Roles during the Seventies included appearances in Perils Of Pendragon, Raffles and Upstairs, Downstairs, plus the movie Rentadick. Ray had a more indirect influence on Doctor Who in 1979, when The Armageddon Factor writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin patterned their Time Lord character Drax on his mannerisms.

In the Eighties, Ray could be seen in shows like Emmerdale Farm, A Killing On The Exchange and Shadow Of The Noose, as well as the films The Sicilian and a 1987 adaptation of Little Dorrit starring Derek Jacobi. Nineties appearances included London's Burning and Ruth Rendell Mysteries. Ray's last appearances came in 2004, in Heartbeat on the small screen and the Judi Dench/Maggie Smith drama Ladies In Lavender on the silver screen. Throughout his career, Ray also acted with the National Theatre on several occasions. He died on December 24th, 2019.