Naylor, Doug
Entry updated 30 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1955- ) UK scriptwriter and author who with Rob Grant worked for three years as head writers for Spitting Image (1984-1996), a satirical Television series using a combination of puppets and live action, and who jointly wrote the Red Dwarf (1988-current) television series, which weds black Humour and Space Opera. Their Ties to Red Dwarf [see Checklist below] began with the two novels Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989), and Better than Life (1990), both written with Rob Grant under the joint pseudonym Grant Naylor and both assembled with additional material as Red Dwarf Omnibus (omni 1992); the second is an early example (see Clichés) of the trapped-in-a-Videogame trope (see Computer Role Playing Game; Virtual Reality). A first collection of Red Dwarf scripts was Primordial Soup: Red Dwarf Scripts (coll 1993), also as by Grant Naylor. Naylor also wrote one solo novel Tie to the series, Last Human (1995). The script extracts in Scenes from the Dwarf (coll 1996 chap) and full scripts in Son of Soup: A Second Serving of the Least Worst Scripts (coll 1996) appeared as by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. [JC/DRL]
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Douglas R Naylor
born Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire: 31 December 1955
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series
Red Dwarf
- Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (London: Penguin Books, 1989) with Rob Grant, writing together as Grant Naylor [tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/]
- Better than Life (London: Viking, 1990) with Rob Grant, writing together as Grant Naylor [tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: hb/Paul Grant]
- Red Dwarf Omnibus (London: Penguin Books, 1992) with Rob Grant, writing together as Grant Naylor [omni of the above two: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/]
- Primordial Soup: Red Dwarf Scripts (London: Penguin Books, 1993) with Rob Grant, writing together as Grant Naylor [scripts: coll: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/photographic]
- Last Human (London: Penguin Books, 1995) [tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: hb/]
- Scenes from the Dwarf (London: Penguin 60s, 1996) with Rob Grant [script extracts: coll: chap: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/]
- Son of Soup: A Second Serving of the Least Worst Scripts (London: Penguin Books, 1996) with Rob Grant [scripts: coll: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/photographic]
- Red Dwarf VIII (London: Virgin, 1999) with Rob Grant, writing together as Grant Naylor [scripts: coll: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: hb/photocollage]
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