Even before the credits had rolled on his second Doctor Who episode, Flatline, people were asking if writer Jamie Mathieson would be back for series 9 of the show. But Mathieson’s path to Doctor Who goes right the way back to his original pitch in 2004, via a feature film screenplay (Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, his writing on Being Human and a further, unsuccessful Who pitch.

We caught up with Mathieson, once Mummy On The Orient Express and Flatline – his first two Doctor Who adventures – had screened. And he took us through his Doctor Who experience…

You’ve said before that you arrived at your Doctor Who pitch meeting with four episodes outlined. First thing then: what’s a Doctor Who pitch meeting actually like?

A Doctor Who pitch meeting is fairly banal really. The one where I pitched the Boneless and got the gig occurred in a windowless basement room in the old BBC White City building that is now closed down. My memory is that I was hardly the first person Steven and his team had seen that day and that they were all fairly tired. Needless to say I was the most wired in the room.