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'''David Agnew''' was a [[pseudonym]] employed by [[Graham Williams]] and | {{you may|David Agnew (in-universe)|n1=the in-universe writer|David Agnew (The Death Pit)|n2=the villain}} | ||
'''David Agnew''' was a [[pseudonym]] employed by [[Graham Williams]] and the incumbent script editor. | |||
== Background == | |||
The BBC in the late 1970s took a dim view of [[producer]]s and [[script editor]]s commissioning themselves, and thus putting a writer out of a job, so when the occasion did arise, then-''[[Doctor Who]]'' producer Williams disguised his actual authorship. [[2 entertain|2|entertain]] did a tongue-in-cheek feature on ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'' DVD called ''[[The Elusive David Agnew (documentary)|The Elusive David Agnew]]''. The featurette included [[Terrance Dicks]] stating that Agnew was a good friend of [[Robin Bland]] (the pseudonym [[Robert Holmes]] credited Dicks under on ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''). As a final joke, the director credit on the featurette is given to {{w|Alan Smithee}}, an infamous pseudonym used for decades by Hollywood film and TV directors, usually those who feel too disappointed at the outcome of their work to risk putting their names on it. | |||
Contrary to the mystery perpetuated in the comedy featurette ''The Elusive David Agnew'', the identity of "Agnew" to ''Doctor Who'' is known. | |||
*The | * [[Anthony Read]], (the [[script editor]], at that time) collaborated with Graham Williams on the scripts for ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'', written at the last minute to replace ''[[Killers of the Dark (unproduced TV story)|Killers of the Dark]]'' by [[David Weir]] which would have proven too expensive to shoot even on a film budget. | ||
* [[Douglas Adams]] (the then-current script editor) and Graham Williams on ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'' as a late replacement for [[David Fisher (writer)|David Fisher]]'s ''A Gamble With Time.'' | |||
Coincidentally, on both occasions the pseudonym was used, it was for scripts whose original writers had the first name 'David'. | |||
== Other information == | |||
* The short story ''[[Playing with Toys (short story)|Playing with Toys]]'' in ''[[Short Trips and Side Steps]]'' was also credited to the pseudonym David Agnew. | |||
* ''[[The Elusive David Agnew (documentary)|The Elusive David Agnew]]'' looked at the origins of the name. | |||
* In [[A. L. Kennedy]]'s ''[[The Death Pit (short story)|The Death Pit]]'', the antagonist is called [[David Agnew (The Death Pit)|David Agnew]], possibly a homage to the writer. | |||
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