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Gary Russell
Birth date:	18 September 1963
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer, Director, Script editor, Executive producer, Producer, Doctor Who Magazine editor, Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1985-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Famous Five, Octopussy, Wizards vs. Aliens, Prisoner Zero, Avalon
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Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963) was the editor of Doctor Who Magazine between 1992 and 1995. He was also the executive producer for Big Finish Productions from 1998 to 2006, when he stepped down to begin script editing for the BBC Wales Doctor Who series. He worked as producer for both the Bernice Summerfield series, as well as the Gallifrey series. He has written many Doctor Who novels, one of which was Spiral Scratch, which served as the acting regeneration story for the Sixth Doctor (for a while). His Doctor Who work is typically noted for an abundance of continuity references.

Russell has worked as an actor since childhood, including a teenage appearance in the James Bond film Octopussy. He had a minor role in The Airzone Solution, a production notable for the many ex-Doctor Who actors in it, including Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Nicola Bryant and Michael Wisher. He directed the animated stories The Infinite Quest and Dreamland. He wrote the jam-packed Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia. In 2008, he became the head writer for a new American Doctor Who comic book mini series published by IDW, retroactively titled Agent Provocateur. It should not be confused with IDW's later Doctor Who (2009), a true ongoing monthly comic book. He contributed to the Davros Connections documentary. He also was the drama producer for the 2011 adventure game The Gunpowder Plot and a voice director for the rest of the games.

He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

He was credited for his "invaluable assistance and generosity" in It's Even Bigger on the Inside, first published 2015, alongside many others.

In the DWU

• He and Scott Handcock play themselves as the directors of the story within the story in the audio story In Living Memory.

Bibliography

Novels

Virgin New Adventures

• Legacy

Virgin Missing Adventures

• Invasion of the Cat-People
• The Scales of Injustice

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures

• Deadfall

BBC Books novelisations

• Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

• Placebo Effect

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

• Business Unusual
• Divided Loyalties
• Instruments of Darkness
• Spiral Scratch

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

• Adorable Illusion

BBC New Series Adventures

• Beautiful Chaos
• The Glamour Chase
• Big Bang Generation

2 in 1 books

• Horror of the Space Snakes

Torchwood novels

• The Twilight Streets

The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations

• Warriors of Kudlak
• The Lost Boy
• The Last Sontaran
• Death of the Doctor

Short stories

Doctor Who Magazine

• The Legacy of Gallifrey
• Prelude Legacy
• The Dalek Chronicles Found!

Brief Encounters

• Mistaken Identity

Short Trips

• Missing, Part One: Business as Usual (in More Short Trips)
• 64 Carlysle Street (in More Short Trips)
• Countdown to TV Action (in Short Trips and Side Steps)
• A Boy's Tale (in Short Trips: Companions)
• Repercussions... (linking material of Short Trips: Repercussions)
• Echoes (in Short Trips: The Centenarian)
• The Report (in Short Trips: Snapshots)
• Do You Dream in Colour? (in Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas)

Doctor Who Storybook

• The Puplet (in Doctor Who Storybook 2009)

Heroes and Monsters Collection

• The Stranger
• Normality
• Buyer's Remorse

The Twelve Doctors of Christmas

• Fairy Tale of New New York
• The Red Bicycle

Charity publications

• Clean Up Time (in Drabble Who)
• The Great Journey of Life Ends Here (in Perfect Timing 1)
• Head in the Sand (in Missing Pieces)
• The Beach (in Seasons of War)

Webcasts

• Real Time
• Shada (prologue)

Audio

Big Finish webcast adaptations

• Real Time
• Shada (prologue)

Big Finish main range

• Minuet in Hell (with Alan W. Lear)
• Zagreus (with Alan Barnes)
• The Next Life (with Alan Barnes)

Short Trips

• Erasure

Doctor Who Unbound

• He Jests at Scars...

Gallifrey

• Lies
• Annihilation (with Scott Handcock)

The Sarah Jane Adventures audiobooks

• The White Wolf

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

• The Curse of Fenman
• In Living Memory (with Scott Handcock)

Anthologies edited

Short Trips

• Short Trips: Repercussions
• Short Trips: The Solar System

Comics

Doctor Who Magazine

• Party Animals (with John Freeman)
• City of Devils (with John Freeman)
• Black Legacy (with Scott Gray)

Radio Times

• Dreadnought
• Descendance
• Ascendance
• Perceptions
• Coda
• Deceptions (unfinished)

IDW Publishing

• Agent Provocateur
• Cold Blooded War! (story; with Richard Starkings)

Torchwood Magazine

• Broken (with Nick Abadzis)
• Overture

Guides

• Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia

Nonfiction

• Doctor Who: Regeneration
• Doctor Who: The Inside Story

Video games

• Destiny of the Doctors (with Hannah Redler, Terrance Dicks and Andy Russell)
• The Orphans of the Polyoptra

Episodes script edited

Doctor Who

• The Waters of Mars
• The End of Time

Torchwood

• Dead Man Walking
• A Day in the Death
• Something Borrowed
• Fragments

The Sarah Jane Adventures

• The Last Sontaran
• The Day of the Clown
• Secrets of the Stars
• The Mark of the Berserker
• The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
• Enemy of the Bane
• Prisoner of the Judoon
• The Mad Woman in the Attic
• The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
• The Eternity Trap
• Mona Lisa's Revenge
• The Gift
• The Nightmare Man
• The Vault of Secrets
• Death of the Doctor
• The Empty Planet
• Lost in Time
• Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
• Sky
• The Curse of Clyde Langer
• The Man Who Never Was

Production Credits

Webcasts

• Real Time - director
• Shada - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)

Animations

• The Infinite Quest - director
• Dreamland - director
• Fury from the Deep - director (with Luke Marcatili)

Video Games

The Adventure Games

• City of the Daleks - voice director (with Charles Cecil)
• Blood of the Cybermen - voice director (with Charles Cecil)
• TARDIS - voice director (with Charles Cecil)
• Shadows of the Vashta Nerada - voice director (with Charles Cecil)
• The Gunpowder Plot - voice director and drama producer

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Sirens of Time - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Phantasmagoria - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Whispers of Terror - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Land of the Dead - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Fearmonger - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Marian Conspiracy - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Genocide Machine - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Red Dawn - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Winter for the Adept - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Apocalypse Element - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Fires of Vulcan - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Shadow of the Scourge - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Holy Terror - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Mutant Phase - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Storm Warning - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Sword of Orion - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Stones of Venice - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Minuet in Hell - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Loups-Garoux - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Dust Breeding - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Bloodtide - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Project: Twilight - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Eye of the Scorpion - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Colditz - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Primeval - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The One Doctor - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Invaders from Mars - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Chimes of Midnight - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Seasons of Fear - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Embrace the Darkness - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Time of the Daleks - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Neverland - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Spare Parts - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• ...ish - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Rapture - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Sandman - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Church and the Crown - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Bang-Bang-a-Boom! - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Jubilee - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Nekromanteia - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Dark Flame - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Doctor Who and the Pirates - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Creatures of Beauty - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Project: Lazarus - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Flip-Flop - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Omega - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Davros - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Master - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Zagreus - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Wormery - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Scherzo - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Creed of the Kromon - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Natural History of Fear - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Twilight Kingdom - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Axis of Insanity - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Arrangements for War - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Harvest - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Roof of the World - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Medicinal Purposes - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Faith Stealer - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Last - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Caerdroia - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Next Life - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Juggernauts - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Game - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Dreamtime - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Catch-1782 - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Three's a Crowd - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Council of Nicaea - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Terror Firma - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Thicker Than Water - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• LIVE 34 - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Scaredy Cat - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Singularity - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Other Lives - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Pier Pressure - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Night Thoughts - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Time Works - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Kingmaker - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Settling - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Nowhere Place - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Red - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Reaping - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Gathering - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Memory Lane - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• No Man's Land - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Year of the Pig - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Nocturne - producer (with Sharon Gosling)

Special Releases

• Last of the Titans - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Ratings War - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Excelis Dawns - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Excelis Rising - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Excelis Decays - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Maltese Penguin - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Real Time - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• No Place Like Home - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Living Legend - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Shada - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Her Final Flight - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Cryptobiosis - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Veiled Leopard - director

Doctor Who Unbound

• Sympathy for the Devil - director
• He Jests at Scars... - director

Novel Adaptations

• Love and War - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)

Short Trips

• Erasure - director

Bernice Summerfield

• Oh No It Isn't! - producer
• Beyond the Sun - director and producer
• Walking to Babylon - director and producer
• Birthright (audio story) - producer
• Just War - director and producer
• Buried Treasures
  • Making Myths - producer
  • Closure - director and producer
• Dragons' Wrath - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Secret of Cassandra - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Stone's Lament - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Skymines of Karthos - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Draconian Rage - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas - producer
• Death and the Daleks - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bone of Contention - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Relics of Jegg-Sau - producer
• Silver Lining - director
• Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death - producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Heart's Desire - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Lost Museum - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary - director and producer
• Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus - director and producer
• The Final Amendment - director
• The Wake - director
• Epoch
  • The Kraken's Lament - director, and producer (with John Ainsworth)
  • The Temple of Questions - director, and producer (with John Ainsworth)
  • Private Enemy No. 1 - director, and producer (with John Ainsworth)
  • Judgement Day - director, and producer (with John Ainsworth)
• Road Trip
  • Brand Management - director and producer
  • Bad Habits - director and producer
  • Paradise Frost - producer
• Legion
  • Vesuvius Falling - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • Shades of Gray (audio story) - producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • Everybody Loves Irving - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
• Many Happy Returns - director (with Scott Handcock and John Ainsworth)
• New Frontiers
  • A Handful of Dust - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • HMS Surprise- producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • The Curse of Fenman - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
• Missing Persons
  • Big Dig - director and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • The Revenant's Carnival - director and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • The Brimstone Kid - director and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • The Winning Side - director and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • In Living Memory - director and producer (with Scott Handcock)

Dalek Empire

• Invasion of the Daleks - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Human Factor - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• "Death to the Daleks!" - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Project Infinity - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)

Sarah Jane Smith

• Comeback - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Tao Connection - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Test of Nerve - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Ghost Town - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)

Gallifrey

• Weapon of Choice - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Square One - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• The Inquiry - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• A Blind Eye - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Lies - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Spirit - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Pandora - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Insurgency - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Imperiatrix - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Fractures - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Warfare - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Appropriation - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Mindbomb - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Panacea - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Gallifrey IV
  • Reborn - director and producer
  • Disassembled - director and producer
  • Annihilation - director and producer
  • Forever - director and producer
• Gallifrey V
  • Emancipation - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • Evolution - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • Arbitration - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
• Gallifrey VI
  • Extermination - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • Renaissance - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)
  • Ascension - director, and producer (with Scott Handcock)

Cyberman

• Scorpius - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Fear - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Conversion - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Telos - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)

Iris Wildthyme

• Wildthyme at Large - director and producer
• The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme - director and producer
• The Complete Series Two
  • Iris Wildthyme and the Sound of Fear - director
  • Iris Wildthyme and the Land of Wonder - director
  • The Two Irises - director
  • Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion - director
• Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa - director
• The Complete Series Three
  • The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society - director
  • Iris Rides Out - director
  • Midwinter Murders - director
• The Complete Series Four
  • Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme - director
  • Iris at the Oche - director
  • A Life in Time - director

I, Davros

• Innocence - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Purity - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Corruption - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
• Guilt - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)

Actor

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Marian Conspiracy - John Wilson
• Red Dawn - Razzburr
• The Holy Terror - Guard
• Dust Breeding - Jay Binks
• Project: Twilight - Newsreader
• The Eye of the Scorpion - Ebren
• Spare Parts - Philpott/Nurse
• The Church and the Crown - Piere
• Nekromanteia - Thesanius
• Omega - MediBot / VidiBot / Scintillans / Mugging Machine
• Master - Whispering Voices
• The Wormery - Psychic worm
• The Twilight Kingdom - Orvik
• The Juggernauts - Computer/Announcer

Bernice Summerfield

• Dragons' Wrath - Mappin Gilder
• The Crystal of Cantus - Thesanius
• The Judas Gift - Reporter
• Many Happy Returns - Vice Chancellor
• the Winning Side - First Yokel
• In Living Memory - Himself

Gallifrey

• Annihilation - Hollis

I, Davros

• Purity - Thal officer

External links

• Gary Russell at the Internet Movie Database
• Gary Russell at James Bond Wiki
• Official Facebook page
• Official Twitter account

• Gary Russell: From Peladon to Placebos (Interview conducted by Jon Preddle)
• The Gary Russell Interview: In conversation with Eddie
• BBC.co.uk website interview with Gary Russell, 01 January 2004
• Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: Gary Russell (archived)