The BEST episodes written by Anthony Read

#1 - The Invasion of Time (1)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 21

Gallifrey, world of the Time Lords. The Doctor returns and claims the vacant presidency. But his behaviour is erratic and his motives mysterious.

#2 - The Invasion of Time (5)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 25

The Sontarans have invaded Gallifrey, seeking to seize the incredible power of the Time Lords. The Doctor's first step is to cut them off from their fleet. But Kelner is helping the enemy…

#3 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (5)

Sapphire and Steel - Season 5 - Episode 5

#4 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (2)

Sapphire and Steel - Season 5 - Episode 2

A game of hide and seek is played before dinner but one of the guests will be murdered, there is something evil hiding in one of the guests but which one?

#5 - The Invasion of Time (4)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 24

The Doctor works to free his planet of the Vardan menace. How can he defeat an enemy who can read his very thoughts? And does their invasion conceal a greater menace?

#6 - The Invasion of Time (2)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 22

Now President of Gallifrey, the Doctor puts a plan motion to apparent betray his people to an alien menace.

#7 - The Invasion of Time (6)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 26

The Sontarans finally invade the TARDIS itself, seeking the Great Key. The Doctor, however, has other uses for this powerful object…

#8 - The Invasion of Time (3)

Doctor Who - Season 15 - Episode 23

Gallifrey, world of the Time Lords. The Doctor has claimed the presidency of the planet (on a technicality, following events in the previous season's The Deadly Assassin) and his behaviour is even more eccentric than usual in other ways, too: he refuses to speak to Leela and seems only to trust K9. But has he really betrayed Gallifrey to a Vardan invasion force? And is there a further power behind the Vardans?

#9 - Assignment V: Dr McDee Must Die (6)

Sapphire and Steel - Season 5 - Episode 6

Lord Arthur Mullrine organises a party to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary since his business partnership began with the late Dr George McDee. During the party, time rolls back fifty years and guests who were not alive at that time are systematically murdered. The late Doctor McDee arrives at the party and Sapphire and Steel realise that the events of the night of his death are beginning to recreate themselves. It transpires that McDee had invented a lethal virus that could destroy all humanity. However, before this could happen he was shot by a jealous lover. Time has occupied the body of the lover and is attempting to arrange events such that McDee survives to accidentally unleash the virus. Sapphire and Steel ensure that he is, indeed, killed by the lover and his body and the virus are consumed in a fire.

#10 - Baby Love

Heartbeat - Season 8 - Episode 6

A young man sneaks around inside Moorside Lodge, a mothers' and babies' home, and Greengrass grabs an order to make a concrete driveway but as David refuses to work that very day, Greengrass has to make the unknown Gary do the job. Later an adopted baby is kidnapped.

#11 - Private Madness, Public Danger

The Professionals - Season 1 - Episode 1

Charles Nesbitt, an expert on chemical weapons, threatens to contaminate the water sources of London with a lethal hallucogenic drug and in order to back up his claims, plans several small 'demonstrations' in warning to the local authorities - including CI5.

#12 - Hunter/Hunted

The Professionals - Season 2 - Episode 1

Cowley assigns Doyle to test a brand new high-tech laser beam rifle. But the rifle is stolen from his flat and the thief decides to 'test' it on Doyle, sending him on a cat-and-mouse chase around London.

#13 - Witching Time

Hammer House of Horror - Season 1 - Episode 1

The beautiful Lucinda Jessop turns up in David Winter's barn, claiming to be a witch from the 17th Century who has escaped being burnt at the stake by travelling forward in time, and it's not long before he is under her spell - much to the alarm of his wife, Mary.

#14 - The Horns of Nimon (3)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 19

The Doctor and Romana are trapped in the Nimon's lair. Is he really the last of his race? What are his real intentions toward Skonnos?

#15 - The Horns of Nimon (1)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 17

Deep space, an unknown time. The TARDIS encounters a disabled Skonnon battlecruiser transporting Anethan 'tribute'. The co-pilot is determined to reach Skonnos at any cost.

#16 - The Horns of Nimon (2)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 18

Having reached Skonnos, Romana is sent with the Anethians to face the deadly Nimon.

#17 - The Horns of Nimon (4)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 20

Romana is trapped on a ruined planet. The Nimons are launching their invasion of Skonnos. Can the Doctor stop the "Great Journey of Life"?

#18 - Long Shot

The Professionals - Season 1 - Episode 11

CI5 are assigned to protect a visiting American Ambassador from a renowned hitman called Ramos, who is hot on his trail. But after only one apparent assasination attempt at his life, Ramos appears to give up - only for him to turn up again at CI5 HQ itself.