Script editor

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A script editor is responsible for editing, that is to say, modifying by removal, addition or rewriting, a script prior to its realisation. The role, sometimes credited as story editor, has evolved over the course of Doctor Who's history, beginning as a hugely influential position in close collaboration with a producer, but becoming a more subordinate one following the advent of showrunners and the presence of a larger script team.

During Matt Smith's tenure on the show, the role was sometimes omitted in crediting, often partially accounted for by similar roles such as assistant script editor and script executive.

The following is a list of script editors for Doctor Who and related programmes.

Doctor Who

Script editor	Series	Stories	Doctors
David Whitaker	Season 1 (1963-64) Season 2 (1964)	An Unearthly Child The Daleks The Edge of Destruction Marco Polo The Keys of Marinus The Aztecs The Sensorites The Reign of Terror Planet of Giants The Dalek Invasion of Earth	First Doctor
Dennis Spooner	Season 2 (1965)	The Rescue The Romans The Web Planet The Crusade The Space Museum The Chase	First Doctor
Donald Tosh	Season 2 (1965) Season 3 (1965-66)	The Time Meddler Galaxy 4 Mission to the Unknown The Myth Makers The Daleks' Master Plan The Massacre	First Doctor
Gerry Davis	Season 3 (1966) Season 4 (1966-67)	The Ark The Celestial Toymaker The Gunfighters The Savages The War Machines The Smugglers The Tenth Planet The Power of the Daleks The Highlanders The Underwater Menace The Moonbase The Macra Terror The Faceless Ones The Evil of the Daleks (partial; Parts 1 to 3)	First Doctor Second Doctor
Peter Bryant	Season 4 (1967) Season 5 (1967-68)	The Evil of the Daleks (partial; Parts 4 to 7) The Abominable Snowmen The Ice Warriors The Enemy of the World	Second Doctor
Victor Pemberton	Season 5 (1967-68)	The Tomb of the Cybermen	Second Doctor
Derrick Sherwin	Season 5 (1968) Season 6 (1968-69)	The Web of Fear Fury from the Deep The Wheel in Space The Dominators The Mind Robber The Space Pirates	Second Doctor
Terrance Dicks	Season 6 (1968-69) Season 7 (1970) Season 8 (1971) Season 9 (1972) Season 10 (1972-73) Season 11 (1973-74)	The Invasion The Krotons The Seeds of Death The War Games Spearhead from Space Doctor Who and the Silurians The Ambassadors of Death Inferno Terror of the Autons The Mind of Evil The Claws of Axos Colony in Space The Dæmons Day of the Daleks The Curse of Peladon The Sea Devils The Mutants The Time Monster The Three Doctors Carnival of Monsters Frontier in Space Planet of the Daleks The Green Death The Time Warrior Invasion of the Dinosaurs Death to the Daleks The Monster of Peladon Planet of the Spiders	Second Doctor Third Doctor
Robert Holmes	Season 12 (1974-75) Season 13 (1975-76) Season 14 (1976-77) Season 15 (1977)	Robot The Ark in Space The Sontaran Experiment Genesis of the Daleks Revenge of the Cybermen Terror of the Zygons Planet of Evil Pyramids of Mars The Android Invasion The Brain of Morbius The Seeds of Doom The Masque of Mandragora The Hand of Fear The Deadly Assassin The Face of Evil The Robots of Death The Talons of Weng-Chiang Horror of Fang Rock The Invisible Enemy Image of the Fendahl	Fourth Doctor
Anthony Read	Season 15 (1977-78) Season 16 (1978-79)	The Sun Makers Underworld The Invasion of Time The Ribos Operation The Pirate Planet The Stones of Blood The Androids of Tara The Power of Kroll The Armageddon Factor	Fourth Doctor
Douglas Adams	Season 17 (1979-80)	Destiny of the Daleks City of Death The Creature from the Pit Nightmare of Eden The Horns of Nimon Shada	Fourth Doctor
Christopher H. Bidmead	Season 18 (1980-81)	The Leisure Hive Meglos Full Circle State of Decay Warriors' Gate The Keeper of Traken Logopolis	Fourth Doctor
Eric Saward	Season 19 (1982) Season 20 (1983) Season 21 (1984) Season 22 (1985) Season 23 (1986)	Castrovalva Kinda Black Orchid Time-Flight Arc of Infinity Snakedance Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment The King's Demons The Five Doctors Warriors of the Deep The Awakening Frontios Resurrection of the Daleks Planet of Fire The Caves of Androzani The Twin Dilemma Attack of the Cybermen Vengeance on Varos The Mark of the Rani The Two Doctors Timelash Revelation of the Daleks The Mysterious Planet Mindwarp Terror of the Vervoids The Ultimate Foe (partial; Part 1)	Fifth Doctor Sixth Doctor
Antony Root	Season 19 (1982)	Four to Doomsday The Visitation Earthshock	Fifth Doctor
Andrew Cartmel	Season 24 (1987) Season 25 (1988-89) Season 26 (1989)	Time and the Rani Paradise Towers Delta and the Bannermen Dragonfire Remembrance of the Daleks The Happiness Patrol Silver Nemesis The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Battlefield Ghost Light The Curse of Fenric Survival	Seventh Doctor
Elwen Rowlands	Series 1 (2005)	Rose The End of the World Aliens of London World War Three The Long Game Father's Day Boom Town	Ninth Doctor
Helen Raynor	Series 1 (2005) Series 2 (2005-06) Series 3 (2007) Series 4 (2008)	The Unquiet Dead Dalek The Empty Child The Doctor Dances Bad Wolf The Parting of the Ways The Christmas Invasion School Reunion The Girl in the Fireplace Rise of the Cybermen The Age of Steel Army of Ghosts Doomsday Blink Silence in the Library Forest of the Dead Midnight	Ninth Doctor Tenth Doctor
Simon Winstone	Series 2 (2006) Series 3 (2006-07)	New Earth Tooth and Claw The Idiot's Lantern The Impossible Planet The Satan Pit Love & Monsters Fear Her The Runaway Bride Smith and Jones The Shakespeare Code Gridlock The Lazarus Experiment 42 Utopia The Sound of Drums Last of the Time Lords	Tenth Doctor
Lindsey Alford	Series 3 (2007) Series 4 (2008-09) Series 5 (2010)	Daleks in Manhattan Evolution of the Daleks Human Nature The Family of Blood Partners in Crime Planet of the Ood The Doctor's Daughter The Unicorn and the Wasp The Stolen Earth Journey's End The Next Doctor Planet of the Dead The Eleventh Hour The Time of Angels Flesh and Stone The Hungry Earth Cold Blood The Lodger The Pandorica Opens The Big Bang	Tenth Doctor Eleventh Doctor
Brian Minchin	Series 4 (2007-08) Series 5 (2010)	Time Crash Voyage of the Damned The Fires of Pompeii Turn Left The Beast Below Victory of the Daleks The Vampires of Venice Amy's Choice Vincent and the Doctor (with Emma Freud)	Tenth Doctor Eleventh Doctor
Nikki Smith	Series 4 (2008)	The Sontaran Stratagem The Poison Sky	Tenth Doctor
Gary Russell	Series 4 (2009-10)	The Waters of Mars The End of Time	Tenth Doctor
Emma Freud	Series 5 (2010)	Vincent and the Doctor (with Brian Minchin)	Eleventh Doctor
Caroline Henry	Series 6 (2011)	The Impossible Astronaut Day of the Moon The Curse of the Black Spot The Rebel Flesh The Almost People Let's Kill Hitler The Girl Who Waited The Wedding of River Song	Eleventh Doctor
John Phillips	Series 7 (2013)	The Name of the Doctor	Eleventh Doctor
Richard Cookson	2013 specials (2013) Series 8 (2014)	The Day of the Doctor Robot of Sherwood Time Heist Flatline	Eleventh Doctor Twelfth Doctor
Derek Ritchie	2013 specials (2013) Series 8 (2014)	The Time of the Doctor Deep Breath Into the Dalek The Caretaker	Eleventh Doctor Twelfth Doctor
David P Davis	Series 8 (2014) Series 9 (2015)	Robot of Sherwood Listen Time Heist The Caretaker Kill the Moon Mummy on the Orient Express Flatline In the Forest of the Night Dark Water Death in Heaven Last Christmas The Magician's Apprentice The Witch's Familiar The Zygon Invasion The Zygon Inversion Sleep No More Face the Raven The Husbands of River Song	Twelfth Doctor
Nick Lambon	Series 9 (2015) Series 10 (2016-17)	Under the Lake Before the Flood The Girl Who Died The Woman Who Lived Heaven Sent Hell Bent The Return of Doctor Mysterio The Pilot Smile Thin Ice Knock Knock Oxygen The Lie of the Land Empress of Mars The Eaters of Light World Enough and Time The Doctor Falls Twice Upon a Time	Twelfth Doctor
Emma Genders	Series 10 (2017)	Extremis The Pyramid at the End of the World	Twelfth Doctor
Nina Métivier	Series 11 (2018)	The Woman Who Fell to Earth It Takes You Away	Thirteenth Doctor
Fiona McAllister	Series 11 (2018-19) Series 12 (2020-21)	The Ghost Monument Rosa Arachnids in the UK The Tsuranga Conundrum Demons of the Punjab Kerblam! The Witchfinders The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos Resolution Spyfall Orphan 55 Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror Fugitive of the Judoon Praxeus Can You Hear Me? The Haunting of Villa Diodati Ascension of the Cybermen The Timeless Children Revolution of the Daleks	Thirteenth Doctor

Notes:

• From "An Unearthly Child" to The Evil of the Daleks episode seven, the credit read "Story Editor". The "Script Editor" credit first appeared on The Dominators episode one.
• Victor Pemberton acted as script editor from The Evil of the Daleks to The Ice Warriors but was only credited for The Tomb of the Cybermen.
• Eric Saward was script editor for both instalments of The Ultimate Foe, although he had quit after the production of part thirteen (1); and work was completed by producer John Nathan-Turner, without on-screen credit. No "Script Editor" credit appeared on Terror of the Vervoids parts nine (1) to twelve (4), or The Ultimate Foe part fourteen (2).
• Although Antony Root was credited as script editor for Earthshock, the actual work was done by Eric Saward. Root was credited as BBC rules at the time prevented Saward from being credited as script editor on his own story.
• Emma Freud was credited as script editor on Vincent and the Doctor alongside the actual editor Brian Minchin, as she is traditionally credited on works by her partner, episode writer Richard Curtis.
• Sheena Bucktowonsing served in the related role of series script editor for all of series 11 and 12.

K9 and Company

• A Girl's Best Friend - Eric Saward, Antony Root

The Sarah Jane Adventures

• All episodes - Gary Russell

K9

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