Doug Naylor
Doug Naylor is an Emmy award winning script-writer, novelist and director.
He co-created the long running hugely successful sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, has written or co-written every episode across thirteen series and has directed over twenty episodes.
He co-created the long running hugely successful sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, has written or co-written every episode across thirteen series and has directed over twenty episodes. Doug also co-founded Grant Naylor Productions in 1991 which made series IV to X of Red Dwarf. Doug has also written three best selling novels, and a few non-best selling ones too. He co-wrote a number one single which shall remain nameless, but has the words Song and Chicken in the title. Doug also co-created the Carlton TV series The 10 Percenters, for which his script Table 11 won a British Comedy award. Formerly he was Head writer and Script editor on the original run of the hugely popular satirical puppet show Spitting Image and he has also written a number of award winning radio shows. His alma mater was Liverpool University where he claims he was thrown out, at the end of his second year, for drinking too slowly.
Other
| Carrott's Lib BBC One | Writer | 1982-01-01 |
| Three of A Kind BBC One | Writer | 1981-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf I-VIII BBC Two | Writer | 1988-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf I-VIII BBC Two | Co-Creator | 1988-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf I-VIII BBC Two | Co-Director | 1988-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf: Better Than Life Penguin | Author | 1990-01-01 |
| Ten Percenters (Two Series) ITV | Writer | 1994-01-01 |
| Last Human: A Red Dwarf Novel Penguin | Author | 1995-01-01 |
| Son Of Cliché (3 Series) BBC Radio 4 | Writer | 1981-01-01 |
| Over To Bill BBC Comedy Playhouse | Writer | 2014-01-01 |
| Spitting Image Series 2-6 ITV | Head Writer | 1985-01-01 |
| Over To Bill BBC Comedy Playhouse | Director | 2014-01-01 |
| Ten Percenters (Two Series) ITV | Co-Director | 1994-01-01 |
| Spitting Image Series 2-6 ITV | Script editor | 1985-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf I-VIII BBC Two | Executive Producer | 1988-01-01 |
| Son Of Cliché (3 Series) BBC Radio 4 | Co-Creator | 1981-01-01 |
| Ten Percenters (Two Series) ITV | Executive Producer | 1994-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf X Grant Naylor Productions / UKTV | Writer | 2012-01-01 |
| Over To Bill BBC Comedy Playhouse | Executive Producer | 2014-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf X Grant Naylor Productions / UKTV | Director | 2012-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers Penguin | Author | 1989-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf XI and XII Baby Cow Productions / UKTV | Writer | 2016-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf XI and XII Baby Cow Productions / UKTV | Director | 2016-01-01 |
| The AA: Red Dwarf TV & Radio Campaigns Adam and Eve | Writer | 2019-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf X Grant Naylor Productions / UKTV | Executive Producer | 2012-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf: The Promised Land Baby Cow Productions / UKTV | Writer | 2020-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf: Back to Earth Grant Naylor Productions / UKTV | Writer | 2010-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf: The Promised Land Baby Cow Productions / UKTV | Director | 2020-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf: Back to Earth Grant Naylor Productions / UKTV | Director | 2010-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf XI and XII Baby Cow Productions / UKTV | Executive Producer | 2016-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf: The Promised Land Baby Cow Productions / UKTV | Executive Producer | 2020-01-01 |
| Red Dwarf: Back to Earth Grant Naylor Productions / UKTV | Executive Producer | 2010-01-01 |
| Sin Bin Island Publisher: David Fickling Books | Author | 2025-01-01 |
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