"18 and life, you got it
18 and life, you know
Your crime is time and it's
18 and life to go."

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Logopolis was the first of three 1980s Doctor Who serials written by Christopher H Bidmead, but writing it was also the last thing he did as Doctor Who’s script editor, a position he held for around a year. Bidmead came to Doctor Who at the same time as new producer John Nathan-Turner, and was picked by JNT on the recommendations of both writer Johnny Byrne, who had himself turned the job down, and fellow BBC drama producer (and former Doctor Who writer) Robert Banks Stewart.

Although a television writer of some experience, mostly in soap opera, and a former actor (you can hear him in the CD release of the BBC’s 1977 radio adaptation of Marlowe’s Edward II, starring future Doctor Who John Hurt) Bidmead had also worked as a journalist and when interviewed by Nathan-Turner he made clear that he did not like Doctor Who as it then stood.