Writer
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The writer is the member of the crew responsible for the penning of scripts for stories. Stories can usually have one or more writers that are usually listed as a title on a work's credits.
This attribution can take many forms such as the author's name published on the cover of a text, or within its pages attributed to a single piece, usually following the form of "STORY TITLE by Writer's Name".
It may also take the form of an on-screen credit such as "Writer - Writer's Name".
The following is a list of Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, K9 and Company and K9 television stories and the writers who worked on each.
Doctor Who (original run)
Season 1
- An Unearthly Child - Anthony Coburn
- The Daleks - Terry Nation
- The Edge of Destruction - David Whitaker
- Marco Polo - John Lucarotti
- The Keys of Marinus - Terry Nation
- The Aztecs - John Lucarotti
- The Sensorites - Peter R. Newman
- The Reign of Terror - Dennis Spooner
Season 2
- Planet of Giants - Louis Marks
- The Dalek Invasion of Earth - Terry Nation
- The Rescue - David Whitaker
- The Romans - Dennis Spooner
- The Web Planet - Bill Strutton
- The Crusade - David Whitaker
- The Space Museum - Glyn Jones
- The Chase - Terry Nation
- The Time Meddler - Dennis Spooner
Season 3
- Galaxy 4 - William Emms
- Mission to the Unknown - Terry Nation
- The Myth Makers - Donald Cotton
- The Daleks' Master Plan - Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner
- The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve - John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh
- The Ark - Paul Erickson and Lesley Scott
- The Celestial Toymaker - Brian Hayles
- The Gunfighters - Donald Cotton
- The Savages - Ian Stuart Black
- The War Machines - Ian Stuart Black
Season 4
- The Smugglers - Brian Hayles
- The Tenth Planet - Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
- The Power of the Daleks - David Whitaker
- The Highlanders - Elwyn Jones and Gerry Davis
- The Underwater Menace - Geoffrey Orme
- The Moonbase - Kit Pedler
- The Macra Terror - Ian Stuart Black
- The Faceless Ones - David Ellis and Malcolm Hulke
- The Evil of the Daleks - David Whitaker
Season 5
- The Tomb of the Cybermen - Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
- The Abominable Snowmen - Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln
- The Ice Warriors - Brian Hayles
- The Enemy of the World - David Whitaker
- The Web of Fear - Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln
- Fury from the Deep - Victor Pemberton
- The Wheel in Space - David Whitaker
Season 6
- The Dominators - Norman Ashby aka Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln
- The Mind Robber - Peter Ling
- The Invasion - Derrick Sherwin, Concept by Kit Pedler
- The Krotons - Robert Holmes
- The Seeds of Death - Brian Hayles and Terrance Dicks (uncredited)
- The Space Pirates - Robert Holmes
- The War Games - Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks
Season 7
- Spearhead from Space - Robert Holmes
- Doctor Who and the Silurians - Malcolm Hulke
- The Ambassadors of Death - David Whitaker, Trevor Ray (episode 1, uncredited) and Malcolm Hulke (episodes 2-7, uncredited)
- Inferno - Don Houghton
Season 8
- Terror of the Autons - Robert Holmes
- The Mind of Evil - Don Houghton
- The Claws of Axos - Bob Baker and Dave Martin
- Colony in Space - Malcolm Hulke
- The Dæmons - Guy Leopold aka Robert Sloman and Barry Letts
Season 9
- Day of the Daleks - Louis Marks
- The Curse of Peladon - Brian Hayles
- The Sea Devils - Malcolm Hulke
- The Mutants - Bob Baker and Dave Martin
- The Time Monster - Robert Sloman and Barry Letts (uncredited)
Season 10
- The Three Doctors - Bob Baker and Dave Martin
- Carnival of Monsters - Robert Holmes
- Frontier in Space - Malcolm Hulke
- Planet of the Daleks - Terry Nation
- The Green Death - Robert Sloman and Barry Letts (uncredited)
Season 11
- The Time Warrior - Robert Holmes
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Malcolm Hulke
- Death to the Daleks - Terry Nation
- The Monster of Peladon - Brian Hayles
- Planet of the Spiders - Robert Sloman and Barry Letts (uncredited)
Season 12
- Robot - Terrance Dicks
- The Ark in Space - Robert Holmes
- The Sontaran Experiment - Bob Baker and Dave Martin
- Genesis of the Daleks - Terry Nation
- Revenge of the Cybermen - Gerry Davis
Season 13
- Terror of the Zygons - Robert Banks Stewart
- Planet of Evil - Louis Marks
- Pyramids of Mars - Stephen Harris aka Robert Holmes, story by Lewis Greifer
- The Android Invasion - Terry Nation
- The Brain of Morbius - Robin Bland aka Terrance Dicks, Robert Holmes
- The Seeds of Doom - Robert Banks Stewart
Season 14
- The Masque of Mandragora - Louis Marks
- The Hand of Fear - Bob Baker and Dave Martin
- The Deadly Assassin - Robert Holmes
- The Face of Evil - Chris Boucher
- The Robots of Death - Chris Boucher
- The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Robert Holmes
Season 15
- Horror of Fang Rock - Terrance Dicks
- The Invisible Enemy - Bob Baker and Dave Martin
- Image of the Fendahl - Chris Boucher
- The Sun Makers - Robert Holmes
- Underworld - Bob Baker and Dave Martin
- The Invasion of Time - David Agnew aka Anthony Read and Graham Williams
Season 16
- The Ribos Operation - Robert Holmes
- The Pirate Planet - Douglas Adams
- The Stones of Blood - David Fisher
- The Androids of Tara - David Fisher
- The Power of Kroll - Robert Holmes
- The Armageddon Factor - Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Season 17
- Destiny of the Daleks - Terry Nation
- City of Death - David Agnew aka David Fisher, Douglas Adams and Graham Williams
- The Creature from the Pit - David Fisher
- Nightmare of Eden - Bob Baker
- The Horns of Nimon - Anthony Read
- Shada - Douglas Adams
Season 18
- The Leisure Hive - David Fisher
- Meglos - John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch
- Full Circle - Andrew Smith
- State of Decay - Terrance Dicks
- Warriors' Gate - Steve Gallagher
- The Keeper of Traken - Johnny Byrne
- Logopolis - Christopher H. Bidmead
Season 19
- Castrovalva - Christopher H. Bidmead
- Four to Doomsday - Terence Dudley
- Kinda - Christopher Bailey
- The Visitation - Eric Saward
- Black Orchid - Terence Dudley
- Earthshock - Eric Saward
- Time-Flight - Peter Grimwade
Season 20
- Arc of Infinity - Johnny Byrne
- Snakedance - Christopher Bailey
- Mawdryn Undead - Peter Grimwade
- Terminus - Steve Gallagher
- Enlightenment - Barbara Clegg
- The King's Demons - Terence Dudley
- The Five Doctors - Terrance Dicks
Season 21
- Warriors of the Deep - Johnny Byrne
- The Awakening - Eric Pringle
- Frontios - Christopher H. Bidmead
- Resurrection of the Daleks - Eric Saward
- Planet of Fire - Peter Grimwade
- The Caves of Androzani - Robert Holmes
- The Twin Dilemma - Anthony Steven
Season 22
- Attack of the Cybermen - Paula Moore aka Eric Saward, Ian Levine and Paula Woolsey
- Vengeance on Varos - Philip Martin
- The Mark of the Rani - Pip and Jane Baker
- The Two Doctors - Robert Holmes
- Timelash - Glen McCoy
- Revelation of the Daleks - Eric Saward
Season 23 - The Trial of a Time Lord
- The Mysterious Planet - Robert Holmes
- Mindwarp - Philip Martin
- Terror of the Vervoids - Pip and Jane Baker
- The Ultimate Foe - Robert Holmes, Eric Saward (uncredited, part one only), Pip and Jane Baker
Season 24
- Time and the Rani - Pip and Jane Baker
- Paradise Towers - Stephen Wyatt
- Delta and the Bannermen - Malcolm Kohll
- Dragonfire - Ian Briggs
Season 25
- Remembrance of the Daleks - Ben Aaronovitch
- The Happiness Patrol - Graeme Curry
- Silver Nemesis - Kevin Clarke
- The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - Stephen Wyatt
Season 26
- Battlefield - Ben Aaronovitch
- Ghost Light - Marc Platt
- The Curse of Fenric - Ian Briggs
- Survival - Rona Munro
Television Movie
Doctor Who (BBC Wales)
K9 and Company
Torchwood
The Sarah Jane Adventures
K9
Series 1
- Regeneration - Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause
- Liberation - Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause
- The Korven - Tim Pye
- The Bounty Hunter - Ian McFadyen
- Sirens of Ceres - Deborah Parsons
- Fear Itself - Everett DeRoche and Graeme Farmer
- The Fall of the House of Gryffen - Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause
- Jaws of Orthrus - Lindsay James
- Dream-Eaters - Jim Noble
- Curse of Anubis - Jim Noble
- Oroborus - Deborah Parsons
- Alien Avatar - Graeme Farmer
- Aeolian - Dave Warner
- The Last Oak Tree - Jim Noble
- Black Hunger - Chris Roache
- The Cambridge Spy - Jason Bourque
- Lost Library of Ukko - Deborah Parsons
- Mutant Copper - John O'Brien
- The Custodians - Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause
- Taphony and the Time Loop - Anthony Morris and Graeme Farmer
- Robot Gladiators - Jim Noble
- Mind Snap - Bob Baker and Paul Tams
- Angel of the North - Bob Baker
- The Last Precinct - Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause
- Hound of the Korven - Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause
- The Eclipse of the Korven - Shayne Armstrong and S.P. Krause