Helen Raynor

Raynor as she appeared on CON: Sontar-Ha!.

Helen Raynor was a script editor and writer during the first four series of the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who. Hired simultaneously with Elwen Rowlands, she is effectively "tied" for the title of "first female script editor on Doctor Who", although Rowlands was technically assigned to the initial production block. Later, she wrote Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks, consequently becoming the first woman to write a televised Dalek story. She also wrote The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, thus also becoming the first woman to write a Sontaran story. She was the only script editor for Steven Moffat, prior to his ascension to the position of head writer. As of the end of 2013, she stands as the only woman credited with writing episodes of the 2005-present revival series.

She was also a writer and script editor on the first two series of Torchwood, penning the episodes Ghost Machine and To the Last Man.

Episodes written

Doctor Who

• Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
• The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky

Torchwood

• Ghost Machine
• To the Last Man

Episodes script edited

Doctor Who

• The Unquiet Dead
• Dalek
• The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
• Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways
• The Christmas Invasion
• New Earth
• 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

Torchwood

• Greeks Bearing Gifts

External links

• Helen Raynor at the Internet Movie Database