Adrian Anscombe

Adrian Anscombe (born 26 December 1971) has been a part of Edward Thomas' art department at the BBC Wales DWU studios since Rose. He has served in a variety of capacities on Doctor Who itself, all having to do with props. While he has occasionally been credited as a standby propsman, and props buyer, he quickly established himself as a senior member of the props team, and, between about the midway point of series 1 and the end of series 2, was most often credited as the property master or chief props master.

He also served in this capacity for the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. More recently, Anscombe has served as props buyer and set decorator for Steven Moffat-era Doctor Who.

He also contributed to the first two series of Torchwood, but here he was variously a set decorator and art department operations manager. He served as props buyer for series 3.

Anscombe's career began in about 2001. He worked with props on a few one-off tele-movies before being employed by Ed Thomas. His work in the Doctor Who universe is, as of 2018, the most notable part of his work history.

Credits

Standby props

• Aliens of London
• The End of the World
• Rose
• The Unquiet Dead
• World War Three

Props buyer

• The Almost People
• The Big Bang
• Children of Earth: Day One
• Children of Earth: Day Three
• Children of Earth: Day Two
• Cold Blood
• The Curse of the Black Spot
• The Doctor's Wife
• The End of Time
• Flesh and Stone
• The Girl Who Waited
• The God Complex
• A Good Man Goes to War
• The Hungry Earth
• Journey's End
• Let's Kill Hitler
• Night Terrors
• The Pandorica Opens
• The Rebel Flesh
• The Stolen Earth
• The Time of Angels
• The Wedding of River Song

Property master

• The Age of Steel
• Army of Ghosts
• Bad Wolf
• Boom Town
• The Christmas Invasion
• Dalek
• The Doctor Dances
• Doomsday
• The Empty Child
• Father's Day
• Fear Her
• The Girl in the Fireplace
• The Idiot's Lantern
• The Impossible Planet
• The Long Game
• Love & Monsters
• User:Mini-mitch/Sandbox Four
• New Earth
• The Parting of the Ways
• Rise of the Cybermen
• The Satan Pit
• School Reunion
• User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 9
• Tooth and Claw
• Turn Left

Chief props master

• 42
• Blink
• Daleks in Manhattan
• Evolution of the Daleks
• Gridlock
• Human Nature
• Last of the Time Lords
• The Lazarus Experiment
• The Runaway Bride
• The Shakespeare Code
• The Sound of Drums
• Utopia

Set decorator

• 73 Yards
• Adam
• The Angels Take Manhattan
• Asylum of the Daleks
• Before the Flood
• Boom
• The Caretaker
• The Church on Ruby Road
• The Curse of Fenric (TotT TV story)
• Dark Water
• The Day of the Doctor
• Death in Heaven
• Deep Breath
• The Devil's Chord
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• The Doctor Falls
• The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Dot and Bubble
• Earthshock (TotT TV story)
• The Eaters of Light
• Empire of Death
• Empress of Mars
• Extremis
• Face the Raven
• Flatline
• The Girl Who Died
• Heaven Sent
• Hell Bent
• The Husbands of River Song
• In the Forest of the Night
• Into the Dalek
• Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
• Kill the Moon
• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
• Knock Knock
• Last Christmas
• The Legend of Ruby Sunday
• The Lie of the Land
• Listen
• The Magician's Apprentice
• The Mind Robber (TotT TV story)
• Mummy on the Orient Express
• The Name of the Doctor
• Nightmare in Silver
• Oxygen
• The Pilot
• The Power of Three
• The Pyramid at the End of the World
• Reset
• The Return of Doctor Mysterio
• The Rings of Akhaten
• Robot of Sherwood
• Rogue
• Sleep No More
• Smile
• Space Babies
• Thin Ice
• The Three Doctors (TotT TV story)
• Time Heist
• The Time Meddler (TotT TV story)
• The Time of the Doctor
• A Town Called Mercy
• Twice Upon a Time
• Under the Lake
• Vengeance on Varos (TotT TV story)
• Wild Blue Yonder
• The Witch's Familiar
• The Woman Who Lived
• The Zygon Invasion
• The Zygon Inversion

Art department operations manager

• Captain Jack Harkness
• Combat
• Countrycide
• Cyberwoman
• Day One
• End of Days
• Everything Changes
• Ghost Machine
• Greeks Bearing Gifts
• Out of Time
• Random Shoes
• They Keep Killing Suzie

External links

• Adrian Anscombe at the Internet Movie Database