David Agnew (writer): Difference between revisions

'''David Agnew''' was a [[pseudonym]] employed by [[Graham Williams]] and others. The BBC in the late 1970's took a dim view as to [[Producer]]s and [[Script Editor]]s commissioning themselves, so when the occasion did arise, then-''[[Doctor Who]]'' Producer Williams disguised his actual authorship. [[2 entertain]] did a tongue-in-cheek feature on [[The Invasion of Time]] DVD called [[The Elusive David Agnew]], It was entitled this as David Agnew never turned up to meetings and when phoned a message had to be left. The featurette included [[Terrance Dicks]] stating that Agnew was a good friend of [[Robin Bland]] (the pseudonym Dicks used on ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]''), and as a final joke the director credit on the featurette is given to [[Wikipedia:Alan Smithee|Alan Smithee]], the infamous pseudonym used for decades by Hollywood film and TV directors who wished to distance themselves from undesirable projects. (Ironically, however, two of the three Agnew scripts for ''Doctor Who'' -- ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'' and ''[[City of Death]]'', far from being undesirable, are among the more fondly remembered storylines of the 1970s.