An editor is someone who marries the intent of the script with the available filmed material to tell the best possible story. An editor's general goal is to find the most economical way to generate the biggest emotional impact in the viewer.
In so doing, an editor must watch every scrap of recorded film — often totaling many times the proposed running length of an episode —and select the best takes of each scene, then produce a "rough cut", which generally runs overlong and serves only to give an idea of the potential of the material. From this point, the editor will add completed CGI scenes and pick-ups . They will also work closely with producers and directors to refine the product until it is "locked", or visually completed. Then, the editor will send his or her locked version to various post-production artists, such as graders , musicians and ADR recordists. On very rare occasions, the previously "locked" episode will return to the editor for a final change, as reportedly happened with the Rose Tyler scene in Partners in Crime .
Though they generally adhere to the writer's suggested scene order, the director's notes, and the producer's wishes, they are not simply technicians carrying out instructions. They are a vital part of the creative team, and can often bring narrative dimension to a piece that other team members could not have foreseen. On some occasions, they may independently create versions which deviate from received instructions in order to demonstrate possibilities their colleagues had not considered.
Editors were initially relatively unimportant to the production of Doctor Who . For most of the 1960s , episodes were filmed more or less in narrative order as stage plays. Many early episodes do not have even a single edit in them; others have no more than one or two. Even in the 1970s and 1980s , a lot of what would today be accomplished through editing was done live-in-studio by the process of vision mixing . Thus, many 70s and 80s episodes employed only a "film editor ", a term of somewhat ambiguous definition and inconsistent usage. At least initially, though, it was a narrowly-defined term which then meant "the person who edited footage captured on film". This was because throughout most of the 1963 version's history, location and special effects work was captured to film, while studio work was recorded on videotape.
Now, though, all footage is captured on the same medium. All footage thus comes through a single editing bay, making the editor a central figure in the hierarchy of post-production.
List of editors
Story
Editor
42
Will Oswald
Adam
Richard Cox (editor)
Adrift
William Webb
An Adventure in Space and Time
Philip Kloss
The Age of Steel
David Cresswell
Aliens of London
Mike Jones (editor)
The Almost People
Jamie Pearson
Amy's Choice
James Pearson
The Angels Take Manhattan
Jamie Pearson
Arachnids in the UK
Helen Murphy
Army of Ghosts
David Cresswell
Asylum of the Daleks
Jamie Pearson
Bad Wolf
Graham Walker
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
David Fisher (editor)
The Beast Below
John Richards
Before the Flood
Will Oswald
The Bells of Saint John
Mark Davis
The Big Bang
Mat Newman
Blink
Jamie McCoan
The Blood Line
Mark J. Goldman
Boom Town
Graham Walker
Brave-ish Heart
Andy Morrison
Can You Hear Me?
Agnieszka Liggett
Captain Jack Harkness
Nick Ames
The Caretaker
Will Oswald
The Categories of Life
Padraic McKinley , Sara Mineo
Children of Earth: Day Five
Philip Kloss
Children of Earth: Day Four
William Oswald
Children of Earth: Day One
Will Oswald
Children of Earth: Day Three
John Gillanders
Children of Earth: Day Two
Philip Kloss
A Christmas Carol
Adam Recht
The Christmas Invasion
Liana Del Giudice
The Church on Ruby Road
Rebecca Trotman BFE
Closing Time
Anthony Boys
Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart
Andy Morrison
The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo
Adam Green
Cold Blood
David Barrett
Cold War
William Oswald
Combat
Richard Cox (editor)
Countrycide
Richard Cox (editor)
The Crimson Horror
Matthew Cannings
The Curse of Clyde Langer
Tim Hodges
The Curse of the Black Spot
Simon Reglar
Cyberwoman
Mike Jones (editor)
Dalek
Graham Walker
Daleks in Manhattan
Mike Jones (editor)
Dark Water
Will Oswald
Day One
William Webb
A Day in the Death
Richard Cox (editor)
The Day of the Clown
Mike Hopkins
The Day of the Doctor
Liana Del Giudice
Day of the Moon
Tim Porter
Dead Man Walking
Richard Cox (editor)
Dead of Night
Michael N. Knue, A.C.E.
Death in Heaven
Will Oswald
Death of the Doctor
Ceres Doyle
Deep Breath
Will Oswald
Demons of the Punjab
David Fisher (editor)
Detained
Edel McDonnell
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Tim Porter
The Doctor Dances
Liana Del Giudice
The Doctor Falls
Will Oswald
Doctor Who
Patrick Lussier
The Doctor's Daughter
Philip Kloss
The Doctor's Wife
Peter H Oliver
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Tim Porter
Doomsday
David Cresswell
Earthshock (TotT
Emily Lawrence
The Eaters of Light
Will Oswald
The Eleventh Doctor (CO
James Brailsford , Rob Mansell
The Eleventh Hour
James Pearson
Empress of Mars
Edel McDonnell
The Empty Child
Liana Del Giudice
The Empty Planet
Ceres Doyle
End of Days
Elen Pierce Lewis
The End of Time
Philip Kloss
End of the Road
Sara Mineo
The End of the World
John Richards
Enemy of the Bane
Ceres Doyle
Escape to LA
Hunter M. Via, A.C.E.
The Eternity Trap
Will Oswald
Eve of the Daleks
Erline O'Donovan-Clarke
Everything Changes
William Webb
Evolution of the Daleks
Mike Jones (editor)
Exit Wounds
Richard Cox (editor)
Extremis
Xavier Russell
Eye of the Gorgon
William Webb
Face the Raven
Mike Jones (editor)
The Family of Blood
Matthew Tabern
Father's Day
Graham Walker
Fear Her
Crispin Green
The Fires of Pompeii
Mike Hopkins
Flatline
Phil Hookway
Flesh and Stone
Will Oswald
For Tonight We Might Die
Adam Green
Forest of the Dead
Crispin Green
Fragments
Fergus MacKinnon
From Out of the Rain
Fergus MacKinnon
Fugitive of the Judoon
Rebecca Trotman
The Gathering
Michael N. Knue, A.C.E.
Ghost Machine
Mike Hopkins
The Ghost Monument
Rebecca Trotman
The Gift
Ceres Doyle
The Giggle
Mark Trend
The Girl Who Died
Adam Green
The Girl Who Waited
Tim Porter
The Girl in the Fireplace
Crispin Green
The God Complex
Tim Porter
A Good Man Goes to War
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
Will Oswald
Greeks Bearing Gifts
Mike Hopkins
Gridlock
John Richards
The Halloween Apocalypse
Joel Skinner
The Haunting of Villa Diodati
Joel Skinner , Agnieszka Liggett
Heaven Sent
Will Oswald
Hell Bent
Will Oswald
Hide
Nick Arthurs
Human Nature
Matthew Tabern
The Hungry Earth
David Barrett
The Husbands of River Song
Adam Green
The Idiot's Lantern
Crispin Green
Immortal Sins
Hunter M. Via, A.C.E.
The Impossible Astronaut
Tim Porter
The Impossible Planet
Mike Jones (editor)
In the Forest of the Night
Lucien Clayton
Into the Dalek
Will Oswald
Invasion of the Bane
Mike Hopkins
It Takes You Away
David Fisher (editor)
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
Selina MacArthur
Journey's End
Will Oswald
Kerblam!
Ulrike Münch
Kill the Moon
John Richards
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
William Webb
Knock Knock
Adam Trotman
Last Christmas
Adam Trotman
The Last Sontaran
Will Oswald
Last of the Time Lords
Mike Hopkins
The Lazarus Experiment
John Richards
Legend of the Sea Devils
Tom White
Let's Kill Hitler
Will Oswald
The Lie of the Land
Edel McDonnell
Listen
Selina MacArthur
The Lodger
Jamie Pearson
The Long Game
John Richards
The Lost
Robbie Morrison
The Lost Boy
Matthew Tabern
Lost in Time
Will Oswald
Love & Monsters
Alan Levy
The Mad Woman in the Attic
Mike Hopkins
The Magician's Apprentice
Selina MacArthur
The Man Who Never Was
Tim Hodges
The Mark of the Berserker
Will Oswald
Meat
Mike Hopkins
The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did
Edel McDonnell
The Middle Men
Michael N. Knue, A.C.E.
Midnight
Philip Kloss
The Mind Robber (TotT
Joseph Keirle
Mona Lisa's Revenge
Mike Hopkins
Mummy on the Orient Express
John Richards
The Name of the Doctor
Matt Cannings
New Earth
Liana Del Giudice
The New World
Hunter M. Via
The Next Doctor
Richard Cox (editor)
Night Terrors
Peter H Oliver
The Nightmare Man
Will Oswald
Nightmare in Silver
Iain Erskine
Nightvisiting
Adam Green
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
Tim Hodges , Rebecca Trotman
Once, Upon Time
Cat Gregory
Orphan 55
Tom Chapman , Rebecca Trotman
Out of Time
Bobby Sheikh
Oxygen
Will Oswald
The Pandorica Opens
Mat Newman
The Parting of the Ways
Graham Walker
Partners in Crime
Mike Jones (editor)
The Pilot
Will Oswald
Planet of the Dead
Mike Jones (editor)
Planet of the Ood
Will Oswald
The Poison Sky
Mike Hopkins
The Power of Three
Mike Hopkins
The Power of the Doctor
Adam Green , Rebecca Trotman
Praxeus
Rebecca Trotman
Prisoner of the Judoon
Will Oswald
The Pyramid at the End of the World
Xavier Russell
Random Shoes
Phil Hookway
The Rebel Flesh
Jamie Pearson
Rendition
Padraic McKinley
Reset
William Webb
Resolution
Edel McDonnell
The Return of Doctor Mysterio
Adam Green
Revenge of the Slitheen
William Webb
Revolution of the Daleks
Joel Skinner
The Rings of Akhaten
Sam Williams
Rise of the Cybermen
David Cresswell
Robot of Sherwood
Will Oswald
Rosa
Rebecca Trotman
Rose
Mike Jones (editor)
The Runaway Bride
John Richards
The Satan Pit
Mike Jones (editor)
School Reunion
Liana Del Giudice
Secrets of the Stars
Mike Hopkins
The Shakespeare Code
Matthew Tabern
Silence in the Library
Crispin Green
Sky
Tim Hodges
Sleep No More
Mike Jones (editor)
Sleeper
Mike Hopkins
Small Worlds
Bobby Sheikh
Smile
Will Oswald
Smith and Jones
Matthew Tabern
The Snowmen
William Oswald
Something Borrowed
Richard Cox (editor)
The Sontaran Stratagem
Mike Hopkins
The Sound of Drums
Mike Hopkins
Spyfall
Tom Chapman , Rebecca Trotman
The Star Beast
Will Oswald
The Stolen Earth
Will Oswald
Survivors of the Flux
Cat Gregory
The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
Will Oswald
The Curse of Fenric (TotT
Joseph Keirle
The Time of the Doctor
St.John O'Rorke
They Keep Killing Suzie
Mike Jones (editor)
Thin Ice
Adam Trotman
The Three Doctors (TotT
Joseph Keirle
Time Heist
Selina MacArthur
The Time Meddler (TotT
Emily Lawrence
The Time of Angels
Will Oswald
The Timeless Children
Rebecca Trotman
To the Last Man
Richard Cox (editor)
Tooth and Claw
Crispin Green
A Town Called Mercy
Tim Porter
The Tsuranga Conundrum
Ulrike Münch
Turn Left
Will Oswald
Twice Upon a Time
Will Oswald
Under the Lake
Will Oswald
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Will Oswald
The Unquiet Dead
John Richards
Utopia
Will Oswald
The Vampires of Venice
James Pearson
The Vanquishers
Cat Gregory , Rebecca Trotman
The Vault of Secrets
Will Oswald
Vengeance on Varos (TotT
Emily Lawrence
Victory of the Daleks
John Richards
Village of the Angels
Joel Skinner
Vincent and the Doctor
Jamie Pearson
Voyage of the Damned
Mike Jones (editor)
War of the Sontarans
Joel Skinner
Warriors of Kudlak
Matthew Tabern
The Waters of Mars
William Oswald
The Wedding of River Song
Anthony Combes
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
Ceres Doyle
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
Bobby Sheikh
Wild Blue Yonder
Tim Hodges BFE
The Witch's Familiar
Selina MacArthur
The Witchfinders
Helen Murphy
The Woman Who Fell to Earth
David Fisher (editor)
The Woman Who Lived
Adam Green
World Enough and Time
Will Oswald
World War Three
Mike Jones (editor)
The Zygon Invasion
Will Oswald
The Zygon Inversion
Will Oswald