Writer

You may be looking for authors or playwrights in the DWU.

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, K9 and Class television stories and the writers who worked on each.

Doctor Who

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 - 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 - Matthew Jacobs

Series 1

• Rose - Russell T Davies
• The End of the World - Russell T Davies
• The Unquiet Dead - Mark Gatiss
• Aliens of London / World War Three - Russell T Davies
• Dalek - Robert Shearman
• The Long Game - Russell T Davies
• Father's Day - Paul Cornell
• The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances - Steven Moffat
• Boom Town - Russell T Davies
• Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways - Russell T Davies

Series 2

• The Christmas Invasion - Russell T Davies
• New Earth - Russell T Davies
• Tooth and Claw - Russell T Davies
• School Reunion - Toby Whithouse
• The Girl in the Fireplace - Steven Moffat
• Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel - Tom MacRae
• The Idiot's Lantern - Mark Gatiss
• The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit - Matt Jones
• Love & Monsters - Russell T Davies
• Fear Her - Matthew Graham
• Army of Ghosts / Doomsday - Russell T Davies

Series 3

• The Runaway Bride - Russell T Davies
• Smith and Jones - Russell T Davies
• The Shakespeare Code - Gareth Roberts
• Gridlock - Russell T Davies
• Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks - Helen Raynor
• The Lazarus Experiment - Stephen Greenhorn
• 42 - Chris Chibnall
• Human Nature / The Family of Blood - Paul Cornell
• Blink - Steven Moffat
• Utopia - Russell T Davies
• The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords - Russell T Davies

Series 4

• Voyage of the Damned - Russell T Davies
• Partners in Crime - Russell T Davies
• The Fires of Pompeii - James Moran
• Planet of the Ood - Keith Temple
• The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky - Helen Raynor
• The Doctor's Daughter - Stephen Greenhorn
• The Unicorn and the Wasp - Gareth Roberts
• Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead - Steven Moffat
• Midnight - Russell T Davies
• Turn Left - Russell T Davies
• The Stolen Earth / Journey's End - Russell T Davies

2009 specials

• The Next Doctor - Russell T Davies
• Planet of the Dead - Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts
• The Waters of Mars - Russell T Davies and Phil Ford
• The End of Time - Russell T Davies

Series 5

• The Eleventh Hour - Steven Moffat
• The Beast Below - Steven Moffat
• Victory of the Daleks - Mark Gatiss
• The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone - Steven Moffat
• The Vampires of Venice - Toby Whithouse
• Amy's Choice - Simon Nye
• The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood - Chris Chibnall
• Vincent and the Doctor - Richard Curtis
• The Lodger - Gareth Roberts
• The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang - Steven Moffat
• A Christmas Carol - Steven Moffat

Series 6

• The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon - Steven Moffat
• The Curse of the Black Spot - Steve Thompson
• The Doctor's Wife - Neil Gaiman
• The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People - Matthew Graham
• A Good Man Goes to War - Steven Moffat
• Let's Kill Hitler - Steven Moffat
• Night Terrors - Mark Gatiss
• The Girl Who Waited - Tom MacRae
• The God Complex - Toby Whithouse
• Closing Time - Gareth Roberts
• The Wedding of River Song - Steven Moffat
• The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe - Steven Moffat

Series 7

• Asylum of the Daleks - Steven Moffat
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship - Chris Chibnall
• A Town Called Mercy - Toby Whithouse
• The Power of Three - Chris Chibnall
• The Angels Take Manhattan - Steven Moffat
• The Snowmen - Steven Moffat
• The Bells of Saint John - Steven Moffat
• The Rings of Akhaten - Neil Cross
• Cold War - Mark Gatiss
• Hide - Neil Cross
• Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS - Steve Thompson
• The Crimson Horror - Mark Gatiss
• Nightmare in Silver - Neil Gaiman
• The Name of the Doctor - Steven Moffat

2013 specials

• The Night of the Doctor - Steven Moffat
• The Day of the Doctor - Steven Moffat
• The Time of the Doctor - Steven Moffat

Series 8

• Deep Breath - Steven Moffat
• Into the Dalek - Phil Ford and Steven Moffat
• Robot of Sherwood - Mark Gatiss
• Listen - Steven Moffat
• Time Heist - Steve Thompson and Steven Moffat
• The Caretaker - Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat
• Kill the Moon - Peter Harness
• Mummy on the Orient Express - Jamie Mathieson
• Flatline - Jamie Mathieson
• In the Forest of the Night - Frank Cottrell-Boyce
• Dark Water / Death in Heaven - Steven Moffat
• Last Christmas - Steven Moffat

Series 9

• The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar - Steven Moffat
• Under the Lake / Before the Flood - Toby Whithouse
• The Girl Who Died - Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat
• The Woman Who Lived - Catherine Tregenna
• The Zygon Invasion - Peter Harness
• The Zygon Inversion - Peter Harness and Steven Moffat
• Sleep No More - Mark Gatiss
• Face the Raven - Sarah Dollard
• Heaven Sent / Hell Bent - Steven Moffat
• The Husbands of River Song - Steven Moffat

Series 10

• The Return of Doctor Mysterio - Steven Moffat
• The Pilot -Steven Moffat
• Smile - Frank Cotterell-Boyce
• Thin Ice - Sarah Dollard
• Knock Knock - Mike Bartlett
• Oxygen - Jamie Mathieson
• Extremis - Steven Moffat
• The Pyramid at the End of the World - Peter Harness and Steven Moffat
• The Lie of the Land - Toby Whithouse
• Empress of Mars - Mark Gatiss
• The Eaters of Light - Rona Munro
• World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls - Steven Moffat
• Twice Upon a Time - Steven Moffat

Series 11

• The Woman Who Fell to Earth - Chris Chibnall
• The Ghost Monument - Chris Chibnall
• Rosa - Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall
• Arachnids in the UK - Chris Chibnall
• The Tsuranga Conundrum - Chris Chibnall
• Demons of the Punjab - Vinay Patel
• Kerblam! - Pete McTighe
• The Witchfinders - Joy Wilkinson
• It Takes You Away - Ed Hime
• The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos - Chris Chibnall
• Resolution - Chris Chibnall

Series 12

• Spyfall - Chris Chibnall
• Orphan 55 - Ed Hime
• Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror - Nina Métivier
• Fugitive of the Judoon - Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall
• Praxeus - Pete McTighe and Chris Chibnall
• Can You Hear Me? - Charlene James and Chris Chibnall
• The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Maxine Alderton
• Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children - Chris Chibnall

Series 13

• Flux
• The Halloween Apocalypse - Chris Chibnall
• War of the Sontarans - Chris Chibnall
• Once, Upon Time - Chris Chibnall
• Village of the Angels - Chris Chibnall and Maxine Alderton
• Survivors of the Flux - Chris Chibnall
• The Vanquishers - Chris Chibnall

2022 Specials

• Eve of the Daleks - Chris Chibnall

K9 and Company

• A Girl's Best Friend - Terence Dudley

Torchwood

Series 1

• Everything Changes - Russell T Davies
• Day One - Chris Chibnall
• Ghost Machine - Helen Raynor
• Cyberwoman - Chris Chibnall
• Small Worlds - Peter J. Hammond
• Countrycide - Chris Chibnall
• Greeks Bearing Gifts - Toby Whithouse
• They Keep Killing Suzie - Paul Tomalin and Dan McCulloch
• Random Shoes - Jacquetta May
• Out of Time - Catherine Tregenna
• Combat - Noel Clarke
• Captain Jack Harkness - Catherine Tregenna
• End of Days - Chris Chibnall

Series 2

• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - Chris Chibnall
• Sleeper - James Moran
• To the Last Man - Helen Raynor
• Meat - Catherine Tregenna
• Adam - Catherine Tregenna
• Reset - J. C. Wilsher
• Dead Man Walking - Matt Jones
• A Day in the Death - Joseph Lidster
• Something Borrowed - Phil Ford
• From Out of the Rain - Peter J. Hammond
• Adrift - Chris Chibnall
• Fragments - Chris Chibnall
• Exit Wounds - Chris Chibnall

Series 3

• Children of Earth
  • Day One - Russell T Davies
  • Day Two - John Fay
  • Day Three - Russell T Davies and James Moran
  • Day Four - John Fay
  • Day Five - Russell T Davies

Series 4

• Miracle Day
  • The New World - Russell T Davies
  • Rendition - Doris Egan
  • Dead of Night - Jane Espenson
  • Escape to LA - Jim Gray and John Shiban
  • The Categories of Life - Jane Espenson
  • The Middle Men - John Shiban
  • Immortal Sins - Jane Espenson
  • End of the Road - Ryan Scott and Jane Espenson
  • The Gathering - John Fay
  • The Blood Line - Russell T Davies and Jane Espenson

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Series 1

• Invasion of the Bane - Gareth Roberts and Russell T Davies
• Revenge of the Slitheen - Gareth Roberts
• Eye of the Gorgon - Phil Ford
• Warriors of Kudlak - Phil Gladwin
• Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? - Gareth Roberts
• The Lost Boy - Phil Ford

Series 2

• The Last Sontaran - Phil Ford
• The Day of the Clown - Phil Ford
• Secrets of the Stars - Gareth Roberts
• The Mark of the Berserker - Joseph Lidster
• The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith - Gareth Roberts
• Enemy of the Bane - Phil Ford

Series 3

• Prisoner of the Judoon - Phil Ford
• The Mad Woman in the Attic - Joseph Lidster
• The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith - Gareth Roberts
• The Eternity Trap - Phil Ford
• Mona Lisa's Revenge - Phil Ford
• The Gift - Rupert Laight

Series 4

• The Nightmare Man - Joseph Lidster
• The Vault of Secrets - Phil Ford
• Death of the Doctor - Russell T Davies
• The Empty Planet - Gareth Roberts
• Lost in Time - Rupert Laight
• Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith - Clayton Hickman and Gareth Roberts

Series 5

• Sky - Phil Ford
• The Curse of Clyde Langer - Phil Ford
• The Man Who Never Was - Gareth Roberts

Class

• Series 1 - Patrick Ness

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