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| birth date = [[1 July (people)|1 July]] [[1956 (people)|1956]]
| birth date = [[1 July (people)|1 July]] [[1956 (people)|1956]]
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| story      = ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''
| story      = ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Puccini and the Doctor (audio story)|Puccini and the Doctor]]''
''[[Puccini and the Doctor (audio story)|Puccini and the Doctor]]''
| time      = 1996, 2024
| time      = 1996, 2024
| non dwu    = ''Lorna Doone'', ''The Ruth Rendell Mysteries'', ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'', ''The Emperor's New Groove'', ''The Kreutzer Sonata'', ''Boxing Day'', ''Your Best Friend'', ''Frankenstein'', ''Vice''
| non dwu    = ''Lorna Doone'', ''The Ruth Rendell Mysteries'', ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'', ''The Emperor's New Groove'', ''The Kreutzer Sonata'', ''Boxing Day'', ''Your Best Friend'', ''Frankenstein'', ''Vice''
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[[Category:Eighth Doctor Adventures writers]]

Latest revision as of 22:51, 22 December 2024

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Matthew Jacobs (born 1 July 1956[1]) is a British writer, director, actor, and producer. He was the writer and co-producer of the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.

He shared his memories of writing the TV Movie, on the 43rd edition of Big Finish's charitable podcast series Toby Hadoke's Who's Round and the documentaries The Seven Year Hitch and Doctor Who Am I.

Nearly 30 years after the TV Movie, he wrote Puccini and the Doctor for Big Finish Productions.

Career[[edit] | [edit source]]

His writing credits include episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Ruth Rendell Mysteries and the animated Disney film The Emperor's New Groove.

Personal life[[edit] | [edit source]]

When he was a child, his father, Anthony Jacobs, brought him on set to see filming of the Doctor Who story The Gunfighters in which he played Doc Holliday.[2]

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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. Doctor Who Guide
  2. The Drawing Room, ‘Doctor Who Am I’ (2022) ABC Radio National, 27 July. Available at https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drawingroom/doctor-who-am-i/13991574 (Accessed 28 July 2022)