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* [[Stephen Harris]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' had originally been written by [[Lewis Greifer]]. However the script was considered unworkable. Greifer was unavailable to rewrite the script, so [[Robert Holmes]] rewrote it and used "Stephen Harris" as a pseudonym.
* [[Stephen Harris]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' had originally been written by [[Lewis Greifer]]. However the script was considered unworkable. Greifer was unavailable to rewrite the script, so [[Robert Holmes]] rewrote it and used "Stephen Harris" as a pseudonym.
* [[David Agnew]]: An in-house pseudonym used on various BBC productions rather than just on ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Credited for scripts to ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'' (actually by [[Graham Williams]] and [[Anthony Read]]) and for ''[[City of Death]]'', [[script editor]] [[Douglas Adams]]' re-work of [[David Fisher]]'s original script ''[[A Gamble With Time]]''.
* [[David Agnew]]: An in-house pseudonym used on various BBC productions rather than just on ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Credited for scripts to ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'' (actually by [[Graham Williams]] and [[Anthony Read]]) and for ''[[City of Death]]'', [[script editor]] [[Douglas Adams]]' re-work of [[David Fisher]]'s original script ''[[A Gamble With Time]]''.
* [[Paula Moore]]: A pseudonym used for the script to ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'' by [[Paula Woolsey]], though both [[Eric Saward]] and [[Ian Levine]] have claimed credit for at least some of the writing (exactly which parts of the story are theirs remains uncertain). The alias "[[Mrs. Moore]]" in ''[[The Age of Steel]]'' refers to this.{{fact}}
* [[Paula Moore]]: A pseudonym used for the script to ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'' by [[Paula Woolsey]], though both [[Eric Saward]] and [[Ian Levine]] have claimed credit for at least some of the writing (exactly which parts of the story are theirs remains uncertain). The alias "[[Mrs Moore]]" in ''[[The Age of Steel]]'' refers to this.{{fact}}


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Revision as of 13:58, 26 September 2015

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The Brain of Morbius was attributed to Robin Bland, a psuedonym used due to Terrance Dicks' dissatisfaction with Robert Holmes' rewrites.

A pseudonym is a false name under which a writer publishes his or her work. Few Doctor Who writers have regularly written under an assumed name, usually under very specific circumstances; most often, writers have used a pseudonym when they wrote a story but weren't legally entitled to receive credit for it. On other occasions, a pseudonym was used as a way to share credit amongst several writers or to express dissatisfaction in the way their story had been handled by the producers or publishers.

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  • The Elusive David Agnew, a featurette on the 2008 DVD release of The Invasion of Time, was a tongue-in-cheek profile of the pseudonymous David Agnew. In keeping with the joke, the director of the featurette is uncredited; instead, the credit Alan Smithee is used, a reference to the infamous pseudonym used by Hollywood film and TV directors.