List of Doctor Who script editors

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This is a list of those who have received an official script editing credit on the long-running British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. This includes credits as "story editor"; the position was known as "story editor" at the beginning of the programme and changed to "script editor" later with no change in responsibilities.

Script Editor Tenure: By Years Tenure: By Stories Other notes
David Whitaker 1963–1964 An Unearthly Child – The Dalek Invasion of Earth Programme's first script editor
Dennis Spooner 1964–1965 The Rescue – The Chase
Donald Tosh 1965–1966 The Time Meddler – The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve ep. 3
Gerry Davis 1966–1967 The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve ep. 4 - The Evil of the Daleks ep. 3
Peter Bryant 1967–1968 The Evil of the Daleks ep. 4-7, The Ice Warriors - The Enemy of the World
Victor Pemberton 1967 The Tomb of the Cybermen Shortest tenure as script editor
Derrick Sherwin 1968 The Web of Fear – The Mind Robber, The Space Pirates
Terrance Dicks 1968–1974 The Invasion – The Seeds of Death, The War Games - Planet of the Spiders Longest tenure as script editor
Robert Holmes 1974–1977 Robot – Image of the Fendahl Had started unofficial work in the post on Death to the Daleks
Anthony Read 1977–1979 The Sunmakers – The Armageddon Factor
Douglas Adams 1979–1980 Destiny of the Daleks – Shada
Christopher H. Bidmead 1980–1981 The Leisure Hive – Logopolis
Antony Root 1981–1982 Four to Doomsday, The Visitation and Earthshock Script editor in name only for Earthshock, due to BBC rules preventing Eric Saward to write a story he was editing
Eric Saward 1982–1986 Castrovalva, Kinda, Black Orchid – The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp Resigned from post prior to the completion of The Trial of a Time Lord
Andrew Cartmel 1987–1989 Time and the Rani – Survival Last script editor for the original series
Elwen Rowlands 2005 Rose – Boom Town First female script editor, first editor of the new series
Helen Raynor 2005–present The End of the World – present
Simon Winstone 2005–present New Earth – present

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