Ken Bentley

Ken Bentley
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Director, Writer, Script editor
Stories:	see credits section
Main time period active:	2008-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Highlander, Sherlock Holmes, Blake's 7, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Time Machine, Callan, Transference
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Ken Bentley is the director of several Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories. He is the sole director of the Doctor Who audio spin-off Counter-Measures.

He revealed in BFX: The Abandoned that he's OCPD, which affects his attention to detail and level of flexibility in his work for Big Finish.

Work

Big Finish Productions

Main range

• The Death Collectors / Spider's Shadow
• Kingdom of Silver / Keepsake (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Forty-Five
• Enemy of the Daleks
• The Angel of Scutari
• Project: Destiny
• A Death in the Family
• Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
• The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories
• Heroes of Sontar
• Kiss of Death
• Rat Trap
• Recorded Time and Other Stories
• The Doomsday Quatrain
• House of Blue Fire
• The Jupiter Conjunction
• The Butcher of Brisbane
• Protect and Survive
• Black and White
• Gods and Monsters
• The Burning Prince
• The Acheron Pulse
• The Shadow Heart
• Eldrad Must Die!
• The Lady of Mercia
• Prisoners of Fate
• Persuasion
• Starlight Robbery
• Daleks Among Us
• 1963: The Assassination Games
• Afterlife
• Moonflesh
• Tomb Ship
• Masquerade
• Revenge of the Swarm
• Mask of Tragedy
• Signs and Wonders
• The Widow's Assassin
• The Rani Elite
• Mistfall
• Equilibrium
• The Entropy Plague
• Last of the Cybermen
• We Are The Daleks
• Terror of the Sontarans
• Criss-Cross
• Planet of the Rani
• You Are the Doctor and Other Stories
• Aquitaine
• A Life of Crime
• Fiesta of the Damned
• Maker of Demons
• Alien Heart / Dalek Soul
• Vortex Ice / Cortex Fire
• Shadow Planet / World Apart
• The High Price of Parking
• The Blood Furnace
• The Silurian Candidate
• Devil in the Mist
• Black Thursday / Power Game
• The Kamelion Empire
• Harry Houdini's War
• Dark Universe
• Shadow of the Daleks 1
• Shadow of the Daleks 2
• The Blazing Hour

Special Releases

• The Four Doctors (with Nicholas Briggs)
• The Five Companions
• Voyage to Venus
• Voyage to the New World
• The Worlds of Doctor Who
  • The Reesinger Process
  • The Screaming Skull
  • Second Sight
• The Legacy of Time
  • Lies in Ruins
  • The Split Infinitive
  • The Sacrifice of Jo Grant
  • Relative Time
  • Collision Course
• Masterful
  • Masterful (with Jason Haigh-Ellery and Scott Handcock)

The Lost Stories

• Leviathan
• Thin Ice
• Crime of the Century
• Animal
• Earth Aid
• The Elite
• Hexagora
• The Children of Seth
• The Foe from the Future
• The Valley of Death
• The Guardians of Prophecy
• Power Play
• The First Sontarans
• The Dark Planet
• The Mega
• Nightmare Country

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Renaissance Man
• The Wrath of the Iceni
• Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure
• The Auntie Matter
• The Justice of Jalxar
• Phantoms of the Deep
• Legacy of Death
• Gallery of Ghouls
• The Skin of the Sleek / The Thief Who Stole Time

Philip Hinchcliffe Presents

• Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
  • The Ghosts of Gralstead
  • The Devil's Armada
• The Genesis Chamber
• The Helm of Awe

Fifth Doctor Adventures

• The Fifth Doctor Box Set
  • Psychodrome
  • Iterations of I

Dark Eyes

• Dark Eyes 3
  • The Death of Hope
  • The Reviled
  • Masterplan
  • Rule of the Eminence
• Dark Eyes 4
  • A Life in the Day
  • The Monster of Montmartre
  • Master of the Daleks
  • Eye of Darkness

Doom Coalition

• Doom Coalition 1
  • The Eleven
  • The Red Lady
  • The Galileo Trap
  • The Satanic Mill
• Doom Coalition 2
  • Beachhead
  • Scenes From Her Life
  • The Gift
  • The Sonomancer
• Doom Coalition 3
  • Absent Friends
  • The Eighth Piece
  • The Doomsday Chronometer
  • The Crucible of Souls
• Doom Coalition 4
  • Ship in a Bottle
  • Songs of Love
  • The Side of the Angels
  • Stop the Clock

Ravenous

• Ravenous 1
  • Their Finest Hour
  • How to Make a Killing in Time Travel
  • World of Damnation / Sweet Salvation
• Ravenous 2
  • Escape from Kaldor
  • Better Watch Out / Fairytale of Salzberg
  • Seizure
• Ravenous 3
  • Deeptime Frontier
  • Companion Piece
  • L.E.G.E.N.D.
  • The Odds Against
• Ravenous 4
  • Whisper
  • Planet of Dust
  • Day of the Master

Stranded

• Stranded 1
  • Lost Property
  • Wild Animals
  • Must-See TV
  • Divine Intervention
• Stranded 2
  • Dead Time
  • UNIT Dating
  • Baker Street Irregulars
  • The Long Way Round

The Eighth Doctor: The Time War

• The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume One
  • The Starship of Theseus
  • Echoes of War
  • The Conscript
  • One Life
• The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Three
  • State of Bliss
  • The Famished Lands
  • Fugitive in Time
  • the War Valeyard

The War Doctor

• Eye of Harmony (only writer)

The Tenth Doctor Adventures

• Volume Three
  • No Place
  • One Mile Down
  • The Creeping Death

Novel Adaptations

• The Well-Mannered War
• Damaged Goods
• Original Sin

The First Doctor Adventures

• The Phoenicians
• Tick-Tock World
• Return to Skaro
• Last of the Romanovs

The Early Adventures

• Domain of the Voord
• The Doctor's Tale
• An Ordinary Life
• The Age of Endurance
• The Sontarans

The Companion Chronicles

• The Darkening Eye
• The Anachronauts
• The Rings of Ikiria
• Project: Nirvana
• The Scorchies
• Mastermind

Short Trips

• Short Trips - Volume I (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Short Trips - Volume II (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Short Trips - Volume III (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Short Trips - Volume IV (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Only Connect

The Paternoster Gang

• Heritage 1
  • The Cars That Ate London
  • A Photograph to Remember
  • The Ghosts of Greenwich
• Heritage 2
  • Dining with Death
  • The Screaming Ceiling
  • Spring-Heeled Jack
• Heritage 3
  • Family Matters
  • Whatever Remains
  • Truth and Bone
• Heritage 4
  • Merry Christmas, Mr Jago
  • The Ghost Writers
  • Rulers of Earth

Counter-Measures

• Threshold
• Artificial Intelligence
• The Pelage Project
• State of Emergency
• Manhunt
• The Fifth Citadel
• Peshka
• Sins of the Fathers
• Changing of the Guard
• The Concrete Cage
• The Forgotten Village (also writer)
• Unto the Breach
• New Horizons
• The Keep (also writer)
• Rise and Shine
• Clean Sweep

The New Counter-Measures

• Who Killed Toby Kinsella?
• The Dead Don't Rise (also writer)
• Nothing to See Here
• Troubled Waters
• The Phoenix Strain
• A Gamble With Time
• The Splintered Man
• The Ship of the Sleepwalkers
• My Enemy's Enemy
• Time of the Intelligence
• The Hollow King
• The Movellan Manoeuvre
• The Dalek Gambit

UNIT: The New Series

• Extinction
  • Vanguard
  • Earthfall
  • Bridgehead
  • Armageddon
• Shutdown
  • Power Cell
  • Death in Geneva
  • The Battle of the Tower
  • Ice Station Alpha
• Silenced
  • House of Silents
  • Square One
  • Silent Majority
  • In Memory Alone
• Assembled
  • Call to Arms
  • Tidal Wave
  • Retrieval
  • United
• Encounters
  • The Dalek Transaction
  • Invocation
  • The Sontaran Project
  • False Negative
• Cyber-Reality
  • Game Theory
  • Telepresense
  • Code Silver
  • Master of Worlds
• Revisitations
  • Hosts of the Wirrn
  • Breach of Trust
  • Open the Box
• Incursions
  • This Sleep of Death
  • Tempest
  • The Power of River Song

Missy

• Series One
  • A Spoonful of Mayhem
  • Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated
  • The Broken Clock
  • The Belly of the Beast
• Series Two
  • The Lumiat (with Sam Clemens)
  • Brimstone and Terror (with Sam Clemens)
  • Treason and Plot (with Sam Clemens)
  • Too Many Masters (with Sam Clemens)

The Diary of River Song

• Series One
  • The Boundless Sea
  • I Went to a Marvellous Party
  • Signs
  • The Rulers of the Universe
• Series Two
  • The Unknown
  • Five Twenty-Nine
  • World Enough and Time
  • The Eye of the Storm
• Series Three
  • The Lady in the Lake
  • A Requiem for the Doctor
  • My Dinner with Andrew
  • The Furies
• Series Four
  • Time in a Bottle
  • Kings of Infinite Space
  • Whodunnit?
  • Someone I Once Knew
• Series Five
  • The Bekdel Test
  • Animal Instinct
  • The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
  • Concealed Weapon
• Series Six
  • An Unearthly Woman
  • The Web of Time
  • Peepshow
  • The Talents of Greel
• Series Seven
  • Colony of Strangers
  • Abbey of Heretics
  • Barrister to the Stars
  • Carnival of Angels
• Series Eight
  • Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow
  • A Brave New World
  • A Forever Home
  • Queen of the Mechonoids

The Robots

• The Robots of Life
• The Sentient
• Love Me Not
• Robots of War
• Toos and Poul
• Do No Harm
• Circuit Breaker

The Churchill Years

• Volume One
  • The Oncoming Storm
  • Hounded
  • Living History
  • The Chartwell Metamorphosis (also writer)
• Volume Two
  • Young Winston
  • Human Conflict
  • I Was Churchill's Double
  • Churchill Victorious

Audio roles

The Companion Chronicles

• Project: Nirvana - Mark Brennon