13 Facts About Doug Naylor

Douglas Rodger Naylor was born on 31 December 1955 and is an English comedy writer, science fiction writer, director and television producer.

The collaborations between Grant and Doug Naylor have often used the pseudonym Grant Doug Naylor.

Some time between the airing of the sixth series of Red Dwarf in 1993, and the writing of the seventh series in 1996, Grant ended his partnership with Doug Naylor after revealing he was tired of it and that he intended to quit and pursue other projects.

Doug Naylor went on to write the seventh and eighth series of Red Dwarf mostly on his own, although some episodes were co-written with Paul Alexander and Kim Fuller, and one episode co-written with one of the cast members, Robert Llewellyn.

Doug Naylor is the author of the Red Dwarf novel Last Human.

Doug Naylor wrote Primordial Soup, Son of Soup and Red Dwarf VII: The Official Book.

Doug Naylor wrote the scripts for the three new episodes and directed them.

In 2011, Dave commissioned Doug Naylor to write and direct a new six episode series of Red Dwarf, later entitled Red Dwarf XI.

Doug Naylor formed Three Feet Productions in October 2017 with his son Richard and wrote and directed a one-off comedy for BBC One, entitled Over To Bill, starring Hugh Dennis, Neil Morrissey, Tracy Ann Oberman and Helen George and produced by Richard Doug Naylor.

In 2020, Red Dwarf: The Promised Land, a 90 minute TV special, was again written and directed by Doug Naylor for Dave and was a Baby Cow production, with Richard Doug Naylor as producer.

Doug Naylor has now written or co-written all 74 episodes of Red Dwarf and was executive producer on 51 episodes.

Doug Naylor is married with two sons, one of whom is a television writer and producer, the other a doctor.

Doug Naylor has a prosthetic leg due to a road accident when he was seven years old, hence the naming of his and Richard's production company Three Feet Productions.