“Hang on, this is Robert Banks Stewart again, isn’t it – is he the only writer to top and tail a season before RTD?”
I think there are a couple of other examples that sort of count: Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis wrote The Tenth Planet and The Tomb of the Cybermen that topped and tailed the fourth production season. Eric Saward wasn’t credited as the writer of Attack of the Cybermen but it’s generally accepted he wrote both that and Revelation of the Daleks for Season 22. And - had he not died - Robert Holmes would have topped and tailed The Trial of a Time Lord...
“Hang on, this is Robert Banks Stewart again, isn’t it – is he the only writer to top and tail a season before RTD?”
I think there are a couple of other examples that sort of count: Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis wrote The Tenth Planet and The Tomb of the Cybermen that topped and tailed the fourth production season. Eric Saward wasn’t credited as the writer of Attack of the Cybermen but it’s generally accepted he wrote both that and Revelation of the Daleks for Season 22. And - had he not died - Robert Holmes would have topped and tailed The Trial of a Time Lord...