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Donald Tosh, script editor of Doctor Who during the William Hartnell era, has died 84.

Tosh worked with the first two producers of Doctor Who, Verity Lambert and John Wiles, and rewrote at least one of the show’s scripts. Tosh told Scotland Now in 2014 that the credited writer for The Massacre “John Lucarotti sent in a script, and he hadn’t had any time to do his research, which was very unlike him. He had missed the whole point of the story, and everything else that was going in.” Tosh took credit for the idea of blending two actors’ faces together in camera to create a change of actor for the Doctor although he left Doctor Who before Hartnell regenerated into Patrick Troughton.

He worked on a Sherlock Holmes series for the BBC, which he described as not being a happy time, and joined the Ministry of Works. His time on Doctor Who “was probably the happiest time of my years in television. I enjoyed being challenged and being stretched to make things work.” His unused script for The Rosemariners was later brought to audio by Big Finish.