Career
Victor Pemberton"s scriptwriting work included British Broadcasting Corporation radio plays, and television scripts for the British Broadcasting Corporation and Independent Television, including, The Slide and The Adventures of Black Beauty. In his earlier years Pemberton had several small screen acting roles. In addition to novelisations, he has written many nostalgic novels set in London, prompted by the success of his autobiographical radio drama series Our Family.
Pemberton grew up in Islington, London, and lived for many years in Essex.
He now lives in Spain, where he continues to write novels. Pemberton was the life partner of the British actor, producer and writer David Spenser.
Pemberton wrote the 1968 Patrick Troughton story Fury from the Deep (which he subsequently novelised for Target Books). The story, now missing from the British Broadcasting Corporation archives, was based on an earlier stand-alone radio serial he had written called The Slide, starring future Master actor Roger Delgado.
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He was also story editor of season five opener The Tomb of the Cybermen. In 1976 Pemberton wrote the audio drama and the Pescatons for an experiment in on vinyl record and an early spin-off from the programme. The production was aimed at children and is heavily based on ideas Pemberton had used for Fury from the Deep.
He later novelised The Pescatons, which was the final book published with the Target logo on the spine (although three later novelisations are identified as Target Books on the back and inside front covers).
He had previously appeared as an actor in the series, in a non-speaking role as a scientist in the 1967 story The Moonbase.