Antony Root (often erroneously rendered Anthony, born 16 April 1954[1]) was a script editor on Doctor Who in 1981. He worked with producer John Nathan-Turner and officially oversaw the scripts for Four to Doomsday by Terence Dudley and The Visitation and Earthshock by Eric Saward, who succeeded him as script editor. Root in fact did no work on Earthshock, but was credited as script editor to avoid Saward being credited as such on his own work, which would have contravened BBC regulations. He was also one of three script editors to work on Kinda, though he received no credit. He was also the script editor for the pilot episode of the Doctor Who spin off K9 and Company.
He had previously worked as an uncredited assistant floor manager on the final episode of Destiny of the Daleks.
Career[]
Root wrote and produced the 1991 Derek Jarman film Edward II. Later, he worked for Granada Television's United States arm, serving as an executive producer of such projects as the 2004 USA Network re-make of their 1997 drama serial Touching Evil. In more recent years he has become an executive producer for HBO.
