Doctor Who: 10 Writers We Want To See Return

Trusting an untested writer with the job of both bringing back the Cybermen after eighteen years and setting up the Series 2 finale was a pretty big gamble for Russell T. Davies, but his choice of Tom MacRae paid off. Which makes it surprising that he has only written one other episode since then.

Five years after writing Series 2’s Cybermen action-thriller, MacRae returned to Doctor Who with the much smaller scale and surprisingly emotional character-driven episode The Girl Who Waited, where Amy is separated from Rory and the Doctor for decades.

MacRae also wrote a much lighter Companion-lite episode for Series 4 where the Doctor appears on the reality show Most Haunted, that was dropped to avoid a second comedic episode straight after the Agatha Christie episode The Unicorn And The Wasp.

Although we can’t judge his Series 4 episode Century House, we can assume he’s able to hit the trifecta of character, action, and comedy writing, all of which are needed for a solid Doctor Who episode. The Girl Who Waited also showed that he’s able to do an episode on the cheap, which is always a plus for Doctor Who.