Born: 22nd November 1920 (as Frederick Redwood Watts)
Died: 27th October 1991 (aged 70 years)
Episodes Broadcast: 1966

Paul Erickson was born in Cardiff, Wales but grew up in San Diego, California. He returned to the UK as a young adult. With the outbreak of World War Two, Erickson served in the Royal Air Force and then began working as an actor in movies like 1943's Old Mother Riley Overseas. In the late Forties, he began to move into television, where he appeared in programmes such as BBC Sunday-Night Theatre. Following a period managing a dance company, Erickson shifted his attention to writing, first for the theatre and then the cinema. During the Fifties, his movies included 3 Steps To Gallows, for which he also made one of his last credited on-screen appearances. Erickson married his first wife, Gemma, in 1951.

Over the ensuing decade, Erickson's career increasingly began to focus on television, including episodes of The New Adventures Of Martin Kane, The Saint and Out Of The Unknown. Erickson's only Doctor Who serial, The Ark, was broadcast in 1966. It was co-credited to Lesley Scott, who was either his wife or his lover at the time, although it appears that Scott herself did not work on the scripts. Erickson's career continued into the Seventies, when he wrote for shows like Paul Temple, Freewheelers and Rogue's Rock. He married Monica Baker in 1986, the same year that he novelised The Ark for Target Books. Erickson died following a stroke on October 27th, 1991.