Script Editor |
Tenure |
Notes |
Years |
Stories |
David Whitaker |
1963–1964 |
An Unearthly Child – The Dalek Invasion of Earth |
Programme's first script editor |
Dennis Spooner |
1964–1965 |
The Rescue – The Chase |
|
Donald Tosh |
1965–1966 |
The Time Meddler – The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve ep. 3 |
|
Gerry Davis |
1966–1967 |
The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve ep. 4 - The Evil of the Daleks ep. 3 |
|
Peter Bryant |
1967–1968 |
The Evil of the Daleks ep. 4-7, The Ice Warriors - The Enemy of the World |
|
Victor Pemberton |
1967 |
The Tomb of the Cybermen |
Shortest tenure as script editor |
Derrick Sherwin |
1968 |
The Web of Fear – The Mind Robber, The Space Pirates |
|
Terrance Dicks |
1968–1974 |
The Invasion – The Seeds of Death, The War Games - Planet of the Spiders |
Longest tenure as script editor |
Robert Holmes |
1974–1977 |
Robot – Image of the Fendahl |
Had started unofficial work in the post on Death to the Daleks |
Anthony Read |
1977–1979 |
The Sunmakers – The Armageddon Factor |
|
Douglas Adams |
1979–1980 |
Destiny of the Daleks – Shada |
|
Christopher H. Bidmead |
1980–1981 |
The Leisure Hive – Logopolis |
|
Antony Root |
1981–1982 |
Four to Doomsday, The Visitation and Earthshock |
Script editor in name only for Earthshock, due to BBC rules preventing Eric Saward to write a story he was editing |
Eric Saward |
1982–1986 |
Castrovalva, Kinda, Black Orchid – The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp |
Resigned from post prior to the completion of The Trial of a Time Lord |
Andrew Cartmel |
1987–1989 |
Time and the Rani – Survival |
Last script editor for the original series |
Elwen Rowlands |
2005 |
"Rose" – "Boom Town" |
First female script editor, first editor of the new series |
Helen Raynor |
2005–2006, 2007 |
"The End of the World" – "Doomsday", "Blink" |
|
Simon Winstone |
2006–present |
"New Earth" – present |
|
Lindsey Alford |
2007–present |
"Daleks in Manhattan" – present |
|
Brian Minchin |
2007 |
"Voyage of the Damned |
Also Torchwood's script editor |