Saw a similar thread asking about classic who writers who could write for the revived series and it got me wondering if there were any writers who had never written for who, whom you would like to or would have liked a script from?


For me there is one person and that is Iain Banks. He was once asked if he would consider writing a Who script and said no on the basis that there are too many rules when writing for Doctor Who, such as the Monster has to go back into the box. Given his Culture Novels and other works I think he would have given a wonderfully Macabre piece of work for Who.

Charles Dickens. Though it would probably be about ghosts living in the gas.....in Cardiff.

I still want Stephen Fry's story to eventually be rewritten and used!

Guillermo Del Toro.

With his imagination he could come up with some quite amazing alien planets.

Phillip Ridley. I think he has a great balance of childlike innocence with darker adult themes- and he's very surreal. Obviously he might have to be a bit less controversial but it could work.

Ray Bradbury. Because I love his writing and I'm sure he would've come up with something imaginative and affecting.

Unless they know how to write television scripts it probably doesn't matter who you pick because it would be rewritten by the head writer.

I'd second the idea of seeing that Stephen Fry episode...would be marvellous!

I wouldn't mind Terry Pratchett having a go either, not that I see him being won over by the show at all. I think A Christmas Carol had a very Pratchett-y vibe to it, and its general atmosphere reminded me a bit of Discworld...with its random flying fish, and gently lit steampunk streets. It happened to be one of my favourite ever Moffat episodes, and I'd love to see Pratchett's imagination come up with something just as wonderfully unique.

If I had to pick a dead writer... Dickens for sure. He already dabbled in time travel with his A Christmas Carol. I think he would have rather loved the nonsensical idea of a man in a time machine!

F. Scott Fitzgerald. J.K. Rowling. But definitely Fitzgerald.

Agatha Christie - a mind-boggling whodunnit in space, or one set in the future with a 'timey-wimey' resolution

That's getting into the spirit of things! <rolleyes>

Woop!

As for TV scripts, Ridley is a playwright (amongst other things).

Lawrence Miles.

His 8th Doctor novels are amazing, and he has some very good ideas, advancing Gallifrey & the Time Lords nicely.

Aaron Sorkin or Arthur C Clark.

Joss Whedon.

H.G.Wells,Nigel Kneale.

I love Iain Bank's SF novels. Larry Niven would also be a good choice. And HP Lovecraft.

I think something akin to The Player of Games would work fantastically in Who

I'd love to see The Affront in Who

Banks' strength wasn't in the aliens races, but I thought the Affront were his best by far.

I'm excluding Minds/AI/Avatars/Ships, which are - of course -exceptionally realised.

Ideally Lewis Caroll, Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie

As for living:
J.K.Rowling
The Wachowski Brothers
Kenneth Biller
Chris Carter

We need more bizarreness!

I'd love to see Capaldi write an episode for himself, or at least come up with the idea for it, if you think about it he should be able to write about his own character who (hopefully) he should know well....

I fixed it.

The lunatics running the asylum?

Nigel Kneale has never consciously written for Doctor Who, but if you watch the first episode of Spearhead from Space, you are, in effect, watching the first episode of Quatermass II (1955) as it would have appeared if he had submitted the script to the Doctor Who office.

As Malcolm Hulke apparently used to say, "All you need to write for television is an original idea - it doesn't even have to be your original idea".

Love this idea.

My vote goes to Noel Clarke - he proved with kidulthood/adulthood that he is more than just an actor and obviously he has Who pedigree, and finally he would offer a fresh perspective