Some ideas:

Woody Allen, could provide a weird, wacky and off the wall episode, which he could even direct.

Billy Wilder, I can just imagine him making the most satirical episode ever. His writing is sublime, especially when you consider he didn't speak English 'til he was in hid 30s.

I think an episode set in a society like The Culture could be really cool. Also The Idirans are very well realised

Exactly, what could possibly go wrong?

Douglas Adams would fit right into present-day Who, and would be brilliant. I miss him.

I'd love to see a return for Ben Aaronovitch, and episodes from Armando Iannucci and Stephen Fry.

LOL yes. Still, they would be great.

Well, if it's any writer, dead or alive, I'd say William Shakespeare. I'm sure he'd come up with something interesting...

Phillip K Dick
Stephen King
Joss Whedon
Dennis Potter
Nicky Wire
Derek Jarman
Jules Verne
Vince Gilligan
Alan Ball
Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg
Roald Dahl

It would have to be an old-style Doctor Who script in 23-minute episodes, but my choice would be Achilles Tatius.

Who?

Achilles Tatius is the author of the early 2nd century AD Greek prose romance Leucippe and Clitophon, which (like other such romances) follows two lovers through various tribulations to their eventual marriage at the end of the book. However, the adventures they have on the way strongly remind me of the adventures of the black and white era of Doctor Who, particularly the historicals, with companions getting separated and eventually reunited, imprisonment/escape/imprisonment, plot and counterplot, and even cliffhanger material (Clitophon twice sees Leucippe killed, once by disembowelment, once by decapitation, but [in, as it were, the next episode] finds her still alive after each occasion, with an explanation that more or less convinces).

[I appreciate he is hardly a household name, but Achilles Tatius immediately sprang to mind when I saw the thread. I believe there are a couple of English translations of the romance available, but I don't know how good they are.]

I'm repeating my previous post : Noel Clarke, screenwriter and actor and totally original choice.

J. Michael Straczynzki
Simon Furman
Me

Ah, Simon Furman. A hero to me when I was young. But does he actually have any TV experience?

Robert Holmes (for NuWho).

The people who wrote Donnie Darko

Samuel Beckett.

James Herbert some of his books are great. Fluke is one of my all time favourite books

I'd love to see another Douglas Adams or Bob Holmes script.

Failing that, Pip and Jane Baker?

Seems he already has a story he wants to tell.


http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01/...ll-mapped-out/

imagine a DW script by David Lynch or David Cronnenberg

No TV experience, but an extensive record in Doctor Who stories outside of his Transformers millieu:

Sixth Doctor comic stories
Nature of the Beast
Salad Daze

Seventh Doctor comic stories
A Cold Day in Hell!
Redemption
The Crossroads of Time
Keepsake
Who's That Girl!

Tenth Doctor comic stories
The Creative Spark
Da Vinci's Robots

Torchwood comic stories
Rift War

BIG FINISH DOCTOR WHO AUDIO STORIES
The Axis of Insanity

I'd hope he would slip in a sly Death's Head reference if he wrote an episode, yes?

Harlan Ellison
Peter David
JMS
Warren Ellis
Alan Moore

Isaac Asimov - imagine that story...

Anyone living or dead? Right, I'll Shakespeare then, he's quite well regarded in some circles

But more realistically, John Wyndham would have been interesting.

Or Nigel Kneale (Quatermass). Apparently he hated Who, which makes me wonder what he would have done with it.

Yes I agree, I would love to see a Terry Pratchett story. Don't think he would though. When he was guest editor of SFX magazine he appeared to have a slightly disdainful attitude towards Doctor Who.

Also:
Tom Holt
Jasper Fforde
Robert Rankin (who I think would be especially suited).

Helen fielding