List of Doctor Who writers

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This is a list of television writers for the science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The list defaults to ascending alphabetical order by writer's last name, though is sortable by a number of different criteria.

List of writers

More information Writer, No. of stories ...
Writer[a] No. of stories[b] No. of episodes List of stories First story year Last story year Ref.
Ben Aaronovitch 2 8 1988 1989 [1]
Douglas Adams 2[c] 10[c] 1978 2017[c] [2]
"David Agnew" 2 10 1978 1979 [3]
Maxine Alderton 1.16[d] 2 2020 2021 [4][5]
Sharma Angel-Walfall 1 1 2025 2025 [6]
"Norman Ashby" (Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln) 1 5 1968 1968 [7]
Christopher Bailey 2 8 1982 1983 [8]
Bob Baker 9 36 1971 1979 [9]
Pip and Jane Baker 3.5 11 1985 1987 [10]
Mike Bartlett 1 1 2017 2017 [11]
Christopher H. Bidmead 3 12 1981 1984 [12]
Ian Stuart Black 3 12 1966 1967 [13]
Malorie Blackman 1 1 2018 2018 [14]
"Robin Bland" (Terrance Dicks and Robert Holmes) 1 4 1976 1976 [15]
Chris Boucher 3 12 1977 1977 [16]
Ian Briggs 2 7 1987 1989 [17]
Johnny Byrne 3 12 1981 1984 [18]
Chris Chibnall 20 28 2007 2022 [40]
Kevin Clarke 1 3 1988 1988 [41]
Barbara Clegg 1 4 1983 1983 [42]
Anthony Coburn 1 4 1963 1963 [43]
Paul Cornell 2 3 2005 2007 [44]
Donald Cotton 2 8 1965 1966 [45]
Frank Cottrell-Boyce 2 2 2014 2017 [46][47]
Neil Cross 2 2 2013 2013 [48]
Graeme Curry 1 3 1988 1988 [49]
Richard Curtis 1 1 2010 2010 [50]
Russell T Davies 38 47 2005 2025 [51]
Gerry Davis 3.5 14 1966 1975 [52]
Juno Dawson 1 1 2025 2025 [53]
Terrance Dicks 5 23 1969 1983 [54]
Sarah Dollard 2 2 2015 2017 [55][56]
Terence Dudley 3 8 1982 1983 [57]
Inua Ellams 1 1 2025 2025 [58]
David Ellis 1 6 1967 1967 [59]
William Emms 1 4 1965 1965 [60]
Paul Erickson 1 4
  • The Ark (1966, co-written with Lesley Scott)
 1966 1966 [61]
David Fisher 4 16 1978 1980 [62]
John Flanagan 1 4
  • Meglos (1980, co-written with Andrew McCulloch)
 1980 1980 [63]
Phil Ford 2 2 2009 2014 [64][65]
Neil Gaiman 2 2 2011 2013 [66][67]
Stephen Gallagher 2 8 1981 1983 [68]
Mark Gatiss 9 9 2005 2017 [74]
Matthew Graham 2 3 2006 2011 [75]
Stephen Greenhorn 2 2 2007 2008 [76]
Peter Grimwade 3 12 1982 1984 [77]
Mervyn Haisman 2 12 1967 1968 [78]
Peter Harness 3 4 2014 2017 [65][79][80]
"Stephen Harris" (Lewis Greifer and Robert Holmes) 1 4 1975 1975 [81]
Brian Hayles 6 30 1966 1974 [82]
Kate Herron 1 1
  • "Rogue" (2024, co-written with Briony Redman)
 2024 2024 [83]
Ed Hime 2 2 2018 2020 [84][85]
Robert Holmes 15.5 64 1968 1986 [86]
Don Houghton 2 13 1970 1971 [87]
Malcolm Hulke 7 47 1967 1974 [88]
Matthew Jacobs 1 1 1996 1996 [89]
Charlene James 1 1 2020 2020 [29]
Elwyn Jones 1 4 1966 1967 [90]
Glyn Jones 1 4 1965 1965 [91]
Matt Jones 1 2 2006 2006 [92]
Malcolm Kohll 1 3 1987 1987 [93]
"Guy Leopold" (Barry Letts and Robert Sloman) 1 5 1971 1971 [94]
Henry Lincoln 2 12 1967 1968 [95]
Peter Ling 1 4 1968 1968 [96]
John Lucarotti 3 15 1964 1966 [97]
Tom MacRae 2 3 2006 2011 [98]
Louis Marks 4 15 1965 1976 [99]
Dave Martin 8 32 1971 1979 [100]
Philip Martin 2 6 1985 1986 [101]
Jamie Mathieson 4 4 2014 2017 [65]
Glen McCoy 1 2 1985 1985 [105]
Andrew McCulloch 1 4
  • Meglos (1980, co-written with John Flanagan)
 1980 1980 [63]
Pete McTighe 3 3 2018 2025 [28][106][107]
Nina Metivier 1 1 2020 2020 [108]
Steven Moffat 42.5[e] 51 2005 2024 [65][109][110]
Paula Moore 1 2 1985 1985 [111]
James Moran 1 1 2008 2008 [112]
Rona Munro 2 4 1989 2017 [113][114]
Terry Nation 10.5 56 1963 1979 [115]
Peter R. Newman 1 6 1964 1964 [116]
Simon Nye 1 1 2010 2010 [117]
Geoffrey Orme 1 4 1967 1967 [118]
Vinay Patel 2 2 2018 2020 [27][119]
Kit Pedler 3 12 1966 1967 [120]
Victor Pemberton 1 6 1968 1968 [121]
Marc Platt 1 3 1989 1989 [122]
Eric Pringle 1 2 1984 1984 [123]
Helen Raynor 2 4 2007 2008 [124]
Anthony Read 1 4 1979 1979 [125]
Briony Redman 1 1
  • "Rogue" (2024, co-written with Kate Herron)
 2024 2024 [83]
Ella Road 1 1 2022 2022 [38]
Gareth Roberts 6 6 2007 2014 [65][126]
Eric Saward 4 12 1982 1985 [127]
Lesley Scott 1 4
  • The Ark (1966, co-written with Paul Erickson)
 1966 1966 [128]
Robert Shearman 1 1 2005 2005 [129]
Derrick Sherwin 1 8 1968 1968 [96]
Robert Sloman 3 18 1972 1974 [130]
Andrew Smith 1 4 1980 1980 [131]
Dennis Spooner 3.5 20 1964 1966 [132]
Anthony Steven 1 4 1984 1984 [133]
Robert Banks Stewart 2 10 1975 1976 [134]
Bill Strutton 1 6 1965 1965 [135]
Keith Temple 1 1 2008 2008 [136]
Steve Thompson 3 3 2011 2014 [65][137][138]
Donald Tosh 0.25 1 1966 1966 [139]
Catherine Tregenna 1 1 2015 2015 [140]
David Whitaker 8 40 1964 1970 [141]
Toby Whithouse 6 7 2006 2017 [145]
Joy Wilkinson 1 1 2018 2018 [146]
Stephen Wyatt 2 8 1987 1989 [147]
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Notes

  1. [a]
    A "writer" is defined by this list as the person or persons who received onscreen credit for writing the script. This column sorts by the last name of the individual. It does not include such credits as: "based on an idea by", "story by", and other such creative credits that fall short of scriptwriting credit.
  2. [b]
    A "story" is a grouping of one of more episodes that form a single narrative. In the classic era, a "story" was a single serial, which might have comprised anywhere from one to twelve episodes, although the most common number was four. For the revived era, most stories have been a single episode in length. Where multi-part stories have been produced by the BBC, the titles of all parts are given so as to indicate the entirety of the story. Writers are credited with a fraction of a story if their name appears on only some of the episodes within a single story.
  3. [c]
    Shada was left unfinished during the original production of season 17. It was eventually completed for the DVD and Blu-ray release in 2017, 16 years after Adams died, and seven years after director Pennant Roberts died. This version was broadcast on American television in 2018. It would have originally aired in the United Kingdom from 19 January to 23 February 1980.
  4. [d]
    Alderton wrote one of Flux's six episodes.
  5. [e]
    Moffat is only credited on the second part of the two-parter "The Zygon Invasion"/"The Zygon Inversion".

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