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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