Career
Erickson contributed generally single episodes to a wide variety of British television shows, most typically of the crime drama genre, although he did occasionally generate science fiction scripts. In the 1950s, he would have generally been considered a B-movie or telemovie writer, offering theatrical audiences such work as Track the Manitoba Down, Secret Venture, and Three Steps to the Gallows. By the 1960s, however, his work was almost exclusively for episodic and anthologic television
He sold three scripts for the third season of The Saint, adapted William Tenn"s short story, "Time in Advance", for Out of the Unknown, wrote The Ark for Doctor Who, and contributed to The Inside Manitoba and Paul Temple.
In the 1980s he novelised his Doctor Who story The Ark for Target Books.