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...

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...

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

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...

Retrieved March 13, 2015. Keefe, Patrick Radden (December 25, 2023). "How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved February...

Stephen King stories, The Long Walk and The Monkey. Darabont was a script doctor for the Steven Spielberg films Saving Private Ryan and Minority Report...

"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...

closely with the producer, if the script writer is not a producer. Script doctor Story editor Showrunner Shumway, Kyler (2020). "Supercharge Your Presence:...

Special. She worked on other writers' screenplays as a script doctor, including tightening the scripts for Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Wedding Singer...

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...

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

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

Cartmel (born 6 April 1958) is a British script editor, author and journalist. He was the script editor of Doctor Who during the Sylvester McCoy era of the...

written by Douglas Adams. Adams was a writer and script editor for Doctor Who in the late 1970s. The Doctor asks the crew where their "Dunkirk spirit" is...

while he was part of the BBC Script Department. It was considered for the second serial of Season 1, in which the Doctor faces a self-aware robot which...

included in the film's script. After the non-Asian actress Tilda Swinton was cast as the other significant Asian character from the Doctor Strange comics, the...

with writing and working with voice actors. Similarly, to screenplay script doctors, video game writers can be brought in to assist with writing-related...

frequent script doctor, was brought on to make the female part more balanced. Judd Apatow and Sandler also performed uncredited rewrites of the script. Director...

Doctor Who's twenty-fifth anniversary season "with a bang", a story with the Doctor's most famous adversaries, the Daleks. Nathan-Turner and script editor...

the resulting publications may be modified versions of the original script. Doctor Faustus is the protagonist. He is an intelligent man whose curiosity...

April 18, 1968) is an American screenwriter, screenplay consultant, script doctor, stuntman, actor and author. He has starred in several films & television...

Katz was Jewish. As uncredited script doctors, a common practice, Katz and Huyck helped polish Lucas's Star Wars script. Katz and Huyck are responsible...

days later. "The Five Doctors" was written by Terrance Dicks, who had been the script editor for the entirety of the Third Doctor's era and had written...

Novelist Poet Polygraph (author) Review Screenwriter Scribe Script coordinator Script doctor Scrivener Songwriter Speechwriter Staff writer Technical writer...

Seven, he is the corpse near the very beginning of the movie. Writer Script doctor Event Horizon (1997) The Game (1997) Fight Club (1999) Stir of Echoes...

Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Red Dawn (1984). He was also a prolific script doctor. He later served as the co-creator of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning...

of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 January 2021. "Yash turns script doctor for his films - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 January...

architect Frank Schwarzkopf and writer Mary Hawthorne Hill, who worked as a script doctor. United States Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was her second cousin...

the announcement he would step down from Doctor Who as the show's executive producer with his final script, "The End of Time" (2009–2010). Davies moved...