List of Doctor Who television writers

This is a list of Doctor Who television writers. It is sortable by a number of different criteria. The list defaults to ascending alphabetical order by the writer's last name. A note to editors: Before changing anything about this list, please make sure that you have thoroughly read and understood all footnotes. Of necessity, this list has several assumptions which may or may not coincide with your personal interpretation of Doctor Who history. Several assumptions underlie the composition of the list. Most significantly, this list defines a "writer of Doctor Who" to be a person who received onscreen credit for a live-action, non-parodic story. That Terrance Dicks in fact wrote four of the six episodes of The Seeds of Death is irrelevant to this list; Brian Hayles is the only person whose name appears on screen so he's the only one who gets credit here. Where possible and necessary, notes have been included to shed light on what a particular writer actually did as opposed to what they were credited for. However, the best source of information about the writing of particular stories is more likely to be the story page itself.

Further details about the way in which this list was compiled can be found by clicking the footnote marker at the top of each column. Information on this list is current through The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.