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== Background ==
== Background ==
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 (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.
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 (TV story)|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 (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.
Contrary to the mystery perpetuated in the comedy featurette ''The Elusive David Agnew'', the identity of "Agnew" to ''Doctor Who'' is known.
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