List of Doctor Who writers
This is a list of television writers for the science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It is sortable by a number of different criteria.[1] The list defaults to ascending alphabetical order by writer's last name.
A "writer of Doctor Who" is defined as a person who received onscreen credit for a live action, non-parodic story. E.g. Terrance Dicks wrote four of the six episodes of The Seeds of Death in reality, but since Brian Hayles is the only name to appear on screen he receives the credit. The notes shed light on the work writers actually did on particular stories.
List of writers
Further details about the way in which this list was compiled can be found by clicking the footnote marker at the top of each column. Information on this list is current through to Series 14.
Writer[2] | No. of stories[3] | No. of episodes[4] | List of stories | First Story Date (year) | Last Story Date (year) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Aaronovitch | 2 | 8 |
| 1988 | 1989 |
Douglas Adams | 1 | 4 |
| 1978 | 1978 |
"David Agnew" | 2 | 10 |
| 1978 | 1979 |
Maxine Alderton | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2021 |
"Norman Ashby" (Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln) | 1 | 5 |
| 1968 | 1968 |
Christopher Bailey | 2 | 8 |
| 1982 | 1983 |
Bob Baker | 9 | 36 |
| 1971 | 1979 |
Pip and Jane Baker | 3.5 | 11 |
| 1985 | 1987 |
Mike Bartlett | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017 |
Christopher H. Bidmead | 3 | 12 | 1981 | 1984 | |
Ian Stuart Black | 3 | 12 |
| 1966 | 1967 |
Malorie Blackman | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018 |
"Robin Bland" (Robert Holmes and Terrance Dicks) | 1 | 4 |
| 1976 | 1976 |
Chris Boucher | 3 | 12 |
| 1977 | 1977 |
Ian Briggs | 2 | 7 |
| 1987 | 1989 |
Johnny Byrne | 3 | 12 |
| 1981 | 1984 |
Chris Chibnall | 20 | 28 |
| 2007 | 2022 |
Kevin Clarke | 1 | 3 |
| 1988 | 1988 |
Barbara Clegg | 1 | 4 |
| 1983 | 1983 |
Anthony Coburn | 1 | 4 |
| 1963 | 1963 |
Paul Cornell | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2007 |
Donald Cotton | 2 | 8 |
| 1965 | 1966 |
Frank Cottrell-Boyce | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2017 |
Neil Cross | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2013 |
Graeme Curry | 1 | 3 |
| 1988 | 1988 |
Richard Curtis | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2010 |
Russell T Davies | 34 | 42 |
| 2005 | 2024 |
Gerry Davis | 4 | 12 |
| 1966 | 1975 |
Terrance Dicks | 5 | 23 |
| 1969 | 1983 |
Sarah Dollard | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2017 |
Terence Dudley | 3 | 8 |
| 1982 | 1983 |
David Ellis | 1 | 6 |
| 1967 | 1967 |
William Emms | 1 | 4 |
| 1965 | 1965 |
Paul Erickson | 1 | 4 |
| 1966 | 1966 |
David Fisher | 4 | 16 |
| 1978 | 1980 |
John Flanagan | 1 | 4 |
| 1980 | 1980 |
Phil Ford | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2014 |
Neil Gaiman | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2013 |
Stephen Gallagher | 2 | 8 |
| 1981 | 1983 |
Mark Gatiss | 9 | 9 |
| 2005 | 2017 |
Matthew Graham | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 2011 |
Stephen Greenhorn | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2008 |
Peter Grimwade | 3 | 12 |
| 1982 | 1984 |
Mervyn Haisman | 2 | 12 |
| 1967 | 1968 |
Peter Harness | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2017 |
"Stephen Harris" (Lewis Greifer and Robert Holmes) | 1 | 4 |
| 1975 | 1975 |
Brian Hayles | 6 | 30 |
| 1966 | 1974 |
Kate Herron | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024 |
Ed Hime | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2020 |
Robert Holmes | 15.5 | 64 |
| 1968 | 1986 |
Don Houghton | 2 | 13 |
| 1970 | 1971 |
Malcolm Hulke | 7 | 47 |
| 1967 | 1974 |
Matthew Jacobs | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1996 |
Charlene James | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020 |
Glyn Jones | 1 | 4 |
| 1965 | 1965 |
Matt Jones | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2003 |
Malcolm Kohll | 1 | 3 |
| 1987 | 1987 |
"Guy Leopold" (Barry Letts and Robert Sloman) | 1 | 5 |
| 1971 | 1971 |
Henry Lincoln | 2 | 12 |
| 1967 | 1968 |
Peter Ling | 1 | 4 |
| 1968 | 1968 |
John Lucarotti | 3 | 15 |
| 1964 | 1966 |
Tom MacRae | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 2011 |
Louis Marks | 4 | 15 |
| 1965 | 1976 |
Dave Martin | 8 | 32 |
| 1971 | 1979 |
Philip Martin | 2 | 6 |
| 1985 | 1986 |
Jamie Mathieson | 4 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2017 |
Glen McCoy | 1 | 2 |
| 1985 | 1985 |
Andrew McCulloch | 1 | 4 |
| 1980 | 1980 |
Pete McTighe | 2 | 2 | 2018 | 2020 | |
Nina Metivier | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020 |
Steven Moffat | 44 | 50 |
| 2005 | 2024 |
"Paula Moore" (Paula Woolsey) | 1 | 2 |
| 1985 | 1985 |
James Moran | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2008 |
Rona Munro | 2 | 4 |
| 1989 | 2017 |
Terry Nation | 10.5 | 56 |
| 1963 | 1979 |
Peter R. Newman | 1 | 6 |
| 1964 | 1964 |
Simon Nye | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2010 |
Geoffrey Orme | 1 | 4 |
| 1967 | 1967 |
Vinay Patel | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2020 |
Kit Pedler | 3 | 12 |
| 1966 | 1968 |
Victor Pemberton | 1 | 6 |
| 1968 | 1968 |
Marc Platt | 1 | 3 |
| 1989 | 1989 |
Eric Pringle | 1 | 2 |
| 1984 | 1984 |
Helen Raynor | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2008 |
Anthony Read | 1 | 4 |
| 1979 | 1979 |
Briony Redman | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024 |
Ella Road | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022 |
Gareth Roberts | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 2014 |
Eric Saward | 4 | 12 |
| 1982 | 1985 |
Lesley Scott | 1 | 4 |
| 1966 | 1966 |
Robert Shearman | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2005 |
Derrick Sherwin | 1 | 8 |
| 1968 | 1968 |
Robert Sloman | 3 | 18 |
| 1972 | 1974 |
Andrew Smith | 1 | 4 |
| 1980 | 1980 |
Dennis Spooner | 3.5 | 20 |
| 1964 | 1965 |
Anthony Steven | 1 | 4 |
| 1984 | 1984 |
Robert Banks Stewart | 2 | 10 |
| 1975 | 1976 |
Bill Strutton | 1 | 6 |
| 1965 | 1965 |
Keith Temple | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2008 |
Stephen Thompson | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2014 |
Donald Tosh | 1 | 1 | 1966 | 1966 | |
Catherine Tregenna | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015 |
David Whitaker | 8 | 40 |
| 1964 | 1970 |
Toby Whithouse | 6 | 7 |
| 2006 | 2017 |
Joy Wilkinson | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018 |
Stephen Wyatt | 2 | 8 |
| 1987 | 1988 |
Notes
- ^ On most mobile versions of Wikipedia, sorting functionality is disabled.
- ^ A "writer" is defined by this list as the person or persons who received onscreen credit for writing the script. Note that this can include pseudonyms but exclude the actual person or persons known to be indicated by the pseudonym. Pseudonyms are indicated by the use of quotation marks around the name. This column sorts by the last name of the individual. It does not include such credits as: "based on an idea by", "story by", and other such creative credits that fall short of scriptwriting credit.
- ^ A "story" is a grouping of one of more episodes that form a single narrative. It is not to be confused with a story arc. In the 1963 version of the programme, a "story" was a single serial, which might have comprised anywhere from one to twelve episodes, although the most common number was four. Since the 1996 telemovie, most stories have been a single episode in length. Where multi-part stories have been produced by the BBC, the titles to both parts are given so as to indicate the entirety of the story. Episodes of unusually short duration produced by BBC Wales, such as "Time Crash", are considered to be single stories, for the purpose of this column. Writers may be credited with a fraction of a story if their name appears on only some of the episodes within a single story.
- ^ An episode is considered to have whatever length it had on first broadcast on BBC One. For the purposes of this column, certain stories, like Resurrection of the Daleks and "The Five Doctors" have two parts and one part, respectively — even though these stories are more often presented as four-parters. The following things are deemed to be single episodes: the 1996 telemovie, "Doctor Who: Children in Need", "Time Crash", "Music of the Spheres", and any other future non-parodic live-action "mini-episodes" produced by BBC Wales. Animated episodes are specifically excluded from this list, as is Dimensions in Time.
See also
- List of Doctor Who script editors
- List of Doctor Who producers
- List of Torchwood writers
- List of The Sarah Jane Adventures writers
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