David Agnew is a pseudonym that was traditionally used on BBC television drama programmes in the 1970s where a writer's name could not be used for contractual reasons, for example where a script editor had written an episode of his or her own programme, or when a writer had been displeased with a script editor's changes to their script. A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Cathy Come Home, a 1966 entry into The Wednesday Play anthology series, voted the best drama and second highest programme overall in the British Film Institutes 2000 survey of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... A script editor - a position sometimes known as story editor in the 1950s and 60s - is a member of the production team of scripted television programmes, usually dramas and comedies. ...
Famous users of the name "David Agnew" include Douglas Adams. Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph by Jill Furmanovsky Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 â May 11, 2001), also known (to fans) as Bop Ad or Bob (after his illegible signature) or by his initials DNA (Watson and Cricks famous discovery was announced in Cambridge...