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[Susan Foreman]

Key Crew working on THE EMPTY CHILD who have previously worked on the show:

• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Who: Before And After #1640a / Doctor Who: Key Crew: Story #164a / Nu-Who Story #9 - The Empty Child

Name: James Hawes [? - ]

Role: Director [5 episodes]
Year(s): 2005 / 2006
Stories: The Empty Child - The Doctor Dances / The Christmas Invasion - New Earth / School Reunion
Note(s): Was set to be producer and lead director on 'Torchwood', but withdrew from these duties to focus on other projects - namely 'Merlin'

Before Who: Director Credits
Films: The Earth in Balance (1990), Divine Magic: The World of the Supernatural - Messengers of the Gods (1996), Haunted History: The Myrtles Plantation (1998), Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World (2003), A Line in the Sand (2004)
Television: Against All Odds [1 episode] (1994) / Staying Alive [2 episodes] (1996) / The Bill [8 episodes] (1996-1998) / Holby City [2 episodes] (1999) / The Mrs Bradley Mysteries [2 episodes] (2000) / Always and Everyone [3 episodes] (2000) / Without Motive (2000) / Empires: Egypt's Golden Empire [3 episodes] (2001) / Sea of Souls [2 episodes] (2004)

After Who
Films: The Chatterley Affair (2006), The Lift (2007), Miss Marie Lloyd (2007), The 39 Steps (2008), Enid (2009), Pulse (2010), The Challenger Disaster (2013), One Life (2023)
Television: Fanny Hill [2 episodes] (2007) / Merlin [3 episodes] (2008) / DCI Banks [2 episodes] (2010) / The Suspicions of Mr Whicher [1 episode] (2011) / Mad Dogs [4 episodes] (2012) / The Mill [4 episodes] (2013) / Penny Dreadful [5 episodes] (2014-2015) / Undercover [3 episodes] (2016) / Black Mirror [2 episodes] (2016-2019) / Genius [2 episodes] (2017) / The Mist [1 episode] (2017) / The Alienist [2 episodes] (2018) / Snowpiercer [3 episodes] (2020) / Raised by Wolves [1 episode] (2020) / Slow Horses [6 episodes] (2022)

Who: Before And After #1640b

Name: Steven Mofatt [1961 - ]

Role: Doctor Who: Writer [50 episodes]
Year(s): 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2024
Stories: The Empty Child - The Doctor Dances / The Girl In The Fireplace / Blink / Silence In The Library - Forest Of The Dead / The End Of Time part 2 / The Eleventh Hour - The Beast Below / The Time Of Angels - Flesh And Stone / The Pandorica Opens - Day On The Moon / A Good Man Goes To War - Let's Kill Hitler / The Wedding Of River Song - Asylum Of The Daleks / The Angels Take Manhattan - The Bells Of St. John / The Name Of The Doctor - The Time Of The Doctor / Deep Breath - Into The Dalek / Listen - The Caretaker / Dark Water - The Witch's Familiar / The Girl Who Died / The Zygon Inversion / Heaven Sent - The Pilot / Extremis - The Pyramid At The End Of The World / World Enough And Time - Twice Upon A Time / Boom

Role: Doctor Who: Executive Producer / Showrunner [85 episodes]
Year(s): 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2024
Stories: The Eleventh Hour - Twice Upon A Time / Boom

Role: Class: Executive Producer[8 episodes]
Year(s): 2016
Stories: For Tonight We Die - The Lost
Note(s):

• Wrote the 1999 Comic Relief story 'The Curse of Fatal Death'
• At time of writing, he has the distinction of penning more television stories for the Doctor than any other writer for the show, with a total of (at least) 9 different incarnations. As well as contributing episodes to the main tenures of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and War Doctors, he has also come up with 'Time Crash' (for the Fifth Doctor) and 'The Night of the Doctor' (for the Eighth Doctor). He wrote for the First Doctor at the end of his tenure ('The Doctor Falls' and 'Twice Upon a Time') and 'Boom' for the Fifteenth Doctor. Furthermore, due to a cameo appearance in 'The Day of the Doctor', he wrote for the Curator, who is definitively revealed in other media to be a future incarnation of the Doctor... although this is left intentionally ambiguous in Moffat's story
• Wrote a number of short features that were included as DVD extras [too many to name here!]
• Is married to Sue Vertue, the producer of 'The Curse of Fatal Death'
• Appeared as himself in [The Five(ish) Doctors (Reboot)'
• Was executive producer of 29 episodes of 'Doctor Who Confidential' between 2009?2011
• Wrote the Target novelisation of 'The Day of the Doctor
• Wrote the Virgin Decalogs short stories 'Continuity Errors' / 'Afterword'
• Wrote the Doctor Who annual short story 'What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow', which was later adapted for television as 'Blink'
• Wrote the Doctor Who Storybook short stories 'Corner of the Eye' / 'A Letter from the Doctor'
• Wrote the Big Finish Productions 'Bernice Summerfield Series' short story 'The Least Important Man'
• Wrote the Doctor Who Magazine story 'My Dad's A Cyberman!'
• Wrote the Doctor Who: Lockdown story 'The Terror of the Umpty Ums'
• Wrote the Doctor Who: Lockdown Webcasts 'Pompadour' / 'The Best of Days'
• Wrote the BBC Live Lesson video game 'Dalek Hack'

Before Who: Writer Credits
Films: Exam Conditions (1992), The Office (1996)
Television: Press Gang [43 episodes] (1989-1993) / Stay Lucky [1 episode] (1990) / Joking Apart [13 episodes] (1991-1995) / Murder Most Horrid [3 episodes] (1994-1999) / Chalk [12 episodes] (1997) / Privates [1 episode] (1999) / Coupling [34 episodes. Also seroes creator] (2000-2004)

After Who
Films: The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Television: Jekyll [6 episodes, also series creator] (2007) / Sherlock [15 episodes, also series creator] (2010-2017) / Dracula [3 episodes, also series creator] (2020) / The Time Traveler's Wife [6 episodes, also series creator] (2022) / Inside Man [4 episodes] (2022) / Douglas Is Cancelled [4 episodes, also series creator] (2024)

Before Who: Producer / Executive Producer Credits
Films: None
Television: Chalk [12 episodes] (1997) / Coupling [10 episodes] (2003)

After Who
Films: None
Television: Jekyll [6 episodes] (2007) / Sherlock [15 episodes] (2010-2017) / Dracula [3 episodes] (2020) / The Time Traveler's Wife [2 episodes] (2022) / The Devil's Hour [6 episodes] (2022) / Douglas Is Cancelled [4 episodes] (2024)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Tegan (Janet Fielding) hangs on as the TARDIS enters a time corridor at the end of Frontios (1984)

[Susan Foreman]

Key Crew working on THE DOCTOR DANCES who have previously worked on the show:

• James Hawes (Director)
• Steven Moffatt (Writer)
• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Key Crew working on BOOM TOWN who have previously worked on the show:

• Joe Ahearne (Director)
• Russell T Davies (Writer)
• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Key Crew working on BAD WOLF who have previously worked on the show:

• Joe Ahearne (Director)
• Russell T Davies (Writer)
• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Key Crew working on THE PARTING OF THE WAYS who have previously worked on the show:

• Joe Ahearne (Director)
• Russell T Davies (Writer)
• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Key Crew working on THE CHRISTMAS INVASION who have previously worked on the show:

• James Hawes (Director)
• Russell T Davies (Writer)
• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Key Crew working on NEW EARTH who have previously worked on the show:

• James Hawes (Director)
• Russell T Davies (Writer)
• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Key Crew working on TOOTH AND CLAW who have previously worked on the show:

• Euros Lyn (Director)
• Russell T Davies (Writer)
• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Key Crew working on SCHOOL REUNION who have previously worked on the show:

• James Hawes (Director)
• Phil Collinson (Producer)

Who: Before And After #1641 / Doctor Who: Key Crew: Story #170 / Nu-Who Story #17 - School Reunion

Name: Toby Whithouse [1970 - ]

Role: Doctor Who: Writer [9 episodes]
Year(s): 2006 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2015 / 2017
Stories: School Reunion / The Vampires Of Venice / The God Complex / A Town Called Mercy / Under The Lake - Before The Flood / The Lie Of The Land

Role: Torchwood: Writer [1 episode]
Year(s): 2006
Stories: Greeks Bearing Gifts
Note(s): Is also an actor who has been profiled in the main 'Actor' section

Before Who: Writer Credits
Films: None
Television: Where the Heart Is [1 episode] (1999) / Attachments [1 episode] (2000) / No Angels [8 episodes] (2004-2006)

After Who
Films: None
Television: Hotel Babylon [1 episode] (2006) / Comedy Showcase [1 episode] (2007) / The Armstrong and Miller Show [1 episode] (2007) / Being Human [33 episodes, also series creator] (2008-2013) / Being Human {U.S version} [52 episodes, "based on a format created by..."] (2011-2014) / The Game [6 episodes, also series creator] (2014) / Noughts + Crosses [2 episodes] (2020) / The Red King [6 episodes, also series creator] (2024)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Finishing make up touches for a Monk filming The Lie of the Land (2017)

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Timothy West (1934 - 2024)

Provided voices for a number of Big Finish Productions audio adventures:

In the 2007 'Eighth Doctor Adventures' story 'Phobos'
In the 2008 'Special Releases' story 'Cuddlesome'
In the 2011 'Doctor Who Main Range' story 'House of Blue Fire'

He was also considered for the role of Didius in the 1965 television story 'The Romans'