Doug MacLeod (TV writer)

Doug MacLeod (13 October 1959 – 22 November 2021)^[1] was an Australian writer of books, television, and theatre.

MacLeod was a working writer for ABC Radio's comedy department in the 1980s, before spending two years as head writer of Network Ten's The Comedy Company. He was a writer on the sketch comedy programs Fast Forward and Full Frontal. He was the script editor of Kath & Kim while the series aired on the ABC.^[2]

As a break from sketch comedy he co-wrote five episodes of SeaChange with Andrew Knight.

He co-wrote the animated children's series Dogstar which won him the inaugural John Hinde Award for science fiction in 2008. He also worked on series two in 2011 with co-writer Philip Dalkin.

In 2008 MacLeod won the Fred Parsons Award for Contribution to Australian Comedy at the AWGIE Awards.^[3]

MacLeod was the writer of Call Girl the Musical, with Tracy Harvey which performed two seasons in Melbourne.^[4]

With John Clarke, he co-wrote a musical adaptation of the children's book Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, titled The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom.^[5]

MacLeod died in Melbourne on 22 November 2021, aged 62, after some years of poor health.^[6][7][8]

MacLeod wrote the following story books for children and young people:

• Sister Madge's Book of Nuns
• Siggy and Amber
• Tumble Turn
• Spiky Spunky, My Pet Monkey
• Leon Stumble's Book of Stupid Fairytales
• I'm Being Stalked by a Moon Shadow
• Kevin the Troll
• The Clockwork Forest
• My Extraordinary Life & Death
• The Life of a Teenage Body-snatcher
• The Shiny Guys
• Tigers on the Beach
• In the Garden of Bad Things

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