User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130219030327

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: I also find writer to be more notable than script editor, as the writers do the real job - they provide us with the stories. The editors are simply crew who clean up after them. Call them their cleaning ladies. :-P That is the case in the BBC Wales series, but certainly not in the old days. From 1963 to 1989 the script editor was one-half of the "production team". Along with the producer he (cause it was always a he) was the only permanent part of Doctor Who's above the line staff. Script editors back then are what we would today call the head writer.