Chris Boucher (born 1943) is a British television writer, best known for his frequent contributions to two genres, science-fiction and crime dramas.

In science-fiction, he wrote three acclaimed Doctor Who serials in the late 1970s before becoming the script editor of Blake's 7 for the entirety of its four season run from 1978 to 1981, also writing several episodes himself, including the well-remembered final episode. In 1987 he created his own science-fiction series Star Cops , which suffered from poor scheduling and lasted for only nine episodes.

Between working on Doctor Who and Blake's 7, Boucher was the script editor on the second season of the popular drama Shoestring, which followed the investigations of private detective and radio show host Eddie Shoestring. Following the end of Blake's 7, Boucher wrote for the police drama Juliet Bravo and later moved on to script edit the detective show Bergerac, working on the programme throughout the 1980s. In the early 1990s, he wrote for the acclaimed police drama Between the Lines .

All of these television programmes were produced in-house by the BBC and broadcast on the BBC One network, with the exception of Star Cops which was shown on BBC Two. For the ITV network, he briefly contributed to Thames Television's police drama The Bill during the mid-1980s.

More recent work has included several Doctor Who novels for BBC Books, and a series of straight-to-CD full-cast audio dramas entitled Kaldor City, which combine elements from his Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death with his Blake's 7 work.

External links

• Chris Boucher at the Internet Movie Database
• Star Cops-based interview at 'The Anorak Zone' website
• Blake's 7-based interview at 'The Anorak Zone' website
• Shoestring-based interview at EddieShoestring.com