A dog has written for Doctor Who.
Doctor Who (series 10) . The series is led by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat , alongside executive producer Brian Minchin . Other returning writers who have worked on this series and previous ones include Frank Cottrell-Boyce , Sarah Dollard , Jamie Mathieson , Peter Harness , Toby Whithouse and Mark Gatiss , as well as two new writers for the revived era of the programme , Mike Bartlett and Rona Munro , the latter of whom wrote Survival , the final serial of the original classic era . K9 , occasionally written K-9 , is the name of several fictional robotic canines ( dogs , the name being a pun on the pronunciation of `` canine '' ) in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who , first appearing in 1977 .