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Helen Raynor (born March 1972) is a Welsh television screenwriter and script editor from Swansea. She is best known for her work on the relaunched BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. She previously worked as a theatre director. Besides television episodes, Raynor has written theatrical plays, radio plays, and short stories.
Helen Raynor was a script editor and writer during the first four series of the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who. Hired simultaneously with Elwen Rowlands, she is effectively "tied" for the title of "first female script editor on Doctor Who", although Rowlands was technically assigned to the initial production block.[1] Later, she wrote Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks ...
Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks" was given to Helen Raynor, who is the first woman to write a televised Dalek story, and the first woman to write a story for the revived series. Some filming for this story was done in New York City for plates of the city, including images of Central Park , the Empire State Building , and the ...
Helen Raynor's inspirations for the script were the horror movies being made during the 1930s and early 1940s, such as Frankenstein (hence the large lightning conductor at the top of the Empire State Building), Island of Lost Souls (genetic experiments gone horribly wrong) and The Phantom of the Opera (the juxtaposition of show business glamor ...
May 6, 2014 · One of Helen Raynor’s most invaluable qualities as a television writer, and specifically a Doctor Who writer, has been to affect us emotionally in such a strong way and like many of the greatest Doctor Who writers has managed to break our hearts in the process. This was made no clearer than in the Torchwood Series Two episode, “ To the Last ...
Helen Raynor. Script and Continuity Department: Doctor Who. Helen Raynor is known for Doctor Who (2005), Torchwood (2006) and Primeval (2007).
Biography. Helen Raynor was born in Swansea, Wales. After completing her studies at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, she worked as a theatrical director for almost a decade. In 2002, Raynor moved into television, initially working as a script editor on Doctors. She then took the opportunity to return to Wales as script editor on the twenty ...
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