A script doctor is a writer or playwright hired by a film, television, or theatre production company to rewrite an existing script or improve specific...

capability were provided in separate "scripts", represented in a lisp-like representation. The most famous script, DOCTOR, simulated a psychotherapist of the...

huge box office success and cemented Mankiewicz's reputation as a "script doctor." He next performed a similar function on The Cassandra Crossing, starring...

"special consultant", he began to earn a reputation in Hollywood as a top script doctor. Towne was credited on Villa Rides (1968), which he later said he did...

Doctor Who, which followed the production of the 25th anniversary story Silver Nemesis. Andrew Cartmel script edited the series. Season 25 saw script...

of Manhattan's theater crowd. She would spend her later years as a script doctor and observing particularly salacious crime trials from the benches in...

episode of Doctor Who for 15 years, until the show was revived in 2005. John Nathan-Turner produced the series, with Andrew Cartmel script editing. Sylvester...

The following is a list of script editors on the long-running British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. This list makes no distinction between...

Many screenwriters also work as full or part-time script doctors, attempting to better a script to suit the desires of a director or studio. For instance...

impressed Bill Bell, the creator of the show, with her on-set skills as a script doctor. He asked her to write for the show in 1981, and thereafter she began...