Christopher Penfold


Christopher Penfold is an English scriptwriter and editor.
Television shows that he has worked on include Pathfinders, Take Me High, the second season of John Christopher's The Tripods , One by One, All Creatures Great and Small, EastEnders, Casualty, The Brack Report and thirteen series of Midsomer Murders.
Penfold is perhaps most well known for being one of the brains behind Gerry Anderson's science fiction series . He worked as story consultant for the original series and is credited for writing 'Guardian of Piri', 'Alpha Child', 'The Last Sunset |The Last Sunset', 'War Games |War Games', 'Space Brain' and 'Dragon's Domain |Dragon's Domain' for the first series and 'Dorzak' as a freelance contributor for the second. Penfold was uncredited for re-writing the series' premiere 'Breakaway |Breakaway' as well as David Weir's 'Black Sun |Black Sun' and fellow staff member Edward di Lorenzo's 'Missing Link |Missing Link'.
In 2010 Christopher Penfold contributed a foreword to the novel, Space: 1999 Omega and its sequel novel, Space: 1999 Alpha. Both novels were written by William Latham and published by Powys Media and were released simultaneously on 27 February 2010. He is also credited with a thank you for his input on the Jonathan Glazer 2013 film Under the Skin''.