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British television writer and producer

Phil Ford
OccupationScreenwriter, producer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1997–present
GenreDrama, science fiction

Phil Ford is a British television writer and producer. He is best known for his work on Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet and Doctor Who. He was head writer and co-producer of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures (2008–11), co-writer of "The Waters of Mars" (2009) and “Into the Dalek” (2014) with Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, respectively, and wrote the majority of the 2010s video game series Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. In 2023, his novelisation of The Waters of Mars was released as part of the revived Target Books series.

In 2012, with Davies, he created Wizards vs Aliens, which ran for three series and gave him an executive producer credit.

He won a Hugo Award, a Writers' Guild Award and was four-times BAFTA nominated.

Selected filmography

Production Notes Broadcaster
Taggart
  • "Berserker" (1997)
 ITV
Coronation Street
  • 86 Episodes (1997–2002)
 ITV
Heartbeat
  • "Spellbound" (1998)
 ITV
Bad Girls
  • "Love Rivals" (1999)
  • "The Set-Up" (2000)
  • "Family Plan" (2000)
  • "The Chains of Freedom" (2001)
  • "Uninvited Guests" (2001)
  • "Cat and Mouse" (2001)
  • "Unholy Alliances" (2002)
  • "Pillow Talk" (2002)
  • Episode 5.03 (2003)
  • Episode 6.08 (2004)
  • Episode 6.12 (2004)
  • Episode 7.01 (2005)
  • Episode 7.04 (2005)
  • Episode 7.11 (2005)
  • Episode 8.04 (2006)
  • Episode 8.08 (2006)
  • Christmas Special (2006) (2011)
 ITV
The Bill
  • "Tolerance: Part 1" (2001)
  • "Tolerance: Part 2" (2001)
  • "Crush" (2001)
  • "Quinnan 1" (2002)
 ITV
Footballers' Wives
  • "All To Play For" (2002)
 ITV
New Captain Scarlet
  • "Instrument of Destruction: Part One" (2005)
  • "Instrument of Destruction: Part Two" (2005)
  • "Swarm" (2005)
  • "Rat Trap" (2005)
  • "The Homecoming" (2005)
  • "Mercury Falling" (2005)
  • "Chiller" (2005)
  • "Heist" (2005)
  • "The Achilles Messenger" (2005)
  • "Touch of the Reaper" (2005)
  • "Virus" (2005)
  • "Enigma" (2005)
  • "Contact" (2005)
  • "Proteus" (2005)
  • "Syrtis Major" (2005)
  • "Fallen Angels" (2005)
  • "Storm at the End of the World" (2005)
  • "Duel" (2005)
  • "Shape Shifter" (2005)
  • "Dominion" (2005)
  • "Grey Skulls" (2005)
 ITV
Bombshell
  • Various Episodes (2006)
 TV ONE
Waterloo Road
  • Episode 2.06 (2007)
  • Episode 2.12 (2007)
 BBC One
The Sarah Jane Adventures CBBC
Torchwood BBC Two
Doctor Who BBC One
Dreamland
  • All 6 Episodes (2009)
 CBBC
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
  • "City of the Daleks" (2010)
  • "Blood of the Cybermen" (2010)
  • "Shadows of the Vashta Nerada" (2010)
  • "The Gunpowder Plot" (2011)
 BBC Online
Wizards vs Aliens
  • "Dawn of the Nekross" (2 parts, 2012)
  • "Grazlax Attacks" (2 parts, 2012)
  • "The Last Day" (2 parts, 2012)
  • "100 Wizards" (2 parts, 2013)
  • "The Thirteenth Floor" (2 parts, 2013)
  • "Endless Night" (2 parts, 2013)
  • "The Secret Of Room 12" (2 parts, 2014)
  • "The Daughters of Stone" (2 parts, 2014)
  • "Twilight Falls" (2 parts, 2014)
 CBBC
Tales of the TARDIS
  • "Vengeance on Varos" (2023)
  • "The Three Doctors" (2023)
  • "The Time Meddler" (2023)
 BBC iPlayer

References

  1. Doctor Who Magazine #393
  2. Doctor Who Magazine #398
  3. Cormack, Morgan. "Doctor Who Target books add 5 new novelisations for 2023". Retrieved 20 January 2023.

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