David Agnew (writer): Difference between revisions

The BBC in the late 1970s took a dim view of [[producer]]s and [[Script Editor|script editors]] 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]]'' DVD called "[[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]]''). 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.

* [[Anthony Read]], (the [[Script Editor|script editor]], at that time) collaborated with Graham Williams on the scripts for ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'', written at the last minute to replace a script by [[David Weir]] which would have proven too expensive to shoot even on a film budget.