Clayton Hickman

Clayton Hickman
Birth date:	5 January 1977
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Editor, Doctor Who Magazine Cover artist, Big Finish Productions Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2000-present
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Clayton Hickman (born 5 January 1977) has had a wide-ranging impact upon the Doctor Who franchise.

Career

Editorship of DWM

Hickman was the dominant editorial voice on Doctor Who Magazine for most of the first decade of the 21st century. He was officially credited as assistant editor on issue #296 in 2000 and remained at that post until taking over the full editorial reins from Alan Barnes with issue #314 in 2002. In DWM 316, Hickman established the comedic persona "Sorvad" in the first Time-Space Telegraph; Hickman's "Sorvad" would pop up occasionally during his editorship, eventually featuring in the regular feature Matrix Data Bank.

He remained the magazine's editor until issue #386 in 2007. One of his most notable achievements was the magazine's radical redesign at the start of the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who. As a part of his duties, he was also one of the key creatives on the comic strip, primarily during the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors' runs. Indeed, he co-wrote the first of the "new series" comic strips, The Love Invasion, with frequent collaborator, Gareth Roberts. He also established the tradition of Panini publishing an annual, first with the 2006 Doctor Who Annual and later with Doctor Who Storybook line that began in 2007. He was instrumental to Panini's digital restoration and reprinting of their catalogue of comic strips in graphic novel format, beginning with The Iron Legion. He also shepherded the creation of yet another Panini series, Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition, whose issues took in-depth looks at particular Doctor Who topics.

Association with Big Finish

Hickman also had an important role to play in the production of many early Big Finish Productions audio dramas. He designed a large proportion of the company's early CD covers, and co-wrote The One Doctor and Bang-Bang-a-Boom! with Gareth Roberts. He also provided the voice of the Daleks for the story The Time of the Daleks.

Involvement in televised Doctor Who

He was the primary designer of Region 2 and 4 Doctor Who DVD release covers, until being superseded by Lee Binding in 2012.

Hickman's writing credits for the televised Doctor Who universe have been confined to The Sarah Jane Adventures. With Gareth Roberts, he co-wrote both the Comic Relief sketch, From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love and the Series 4 finale, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith.

Hickman is well versed in many Who topics, but especially prop history. He has a keen knowledge of the evolution of the TARDIS prop, and an infamy for protesting any altered language on the "Pull to Open" sign (particularly the change in the new series of the phrase "respond to urgent calls" to the historically inaccurate "respond to all calls"). This led to him directly being contacted by Steven Moffat to help ensure that the First Doctor's prop in TV: Twice Upon a Time was as accurate as possible.

Hickman's long experience with the franchise, coupled with his articulate irreverence, made him a frequent interviewee on Doctor Who Confidential. Other affiliations with the franchise included being a celebrity judge on Totally Doctor Who and a regular contributor to Doctor Who DVD documentaries.

Other

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

Television

The Sarah Jane Adventures

• Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (with Gareth Roberts)

Comic Relief Special

• From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love (with Gareth Roberts)

Prose

Doctor Who Magazine

Time-Space Telegraph

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Matrix Data Bank

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Short Trips

• Special Occasions: 1. The Not-So-Sinister Sponge (with Gareth Roberts)

Big Finish CD booklets

• Translators of The Cube Chronicles (with Gareth Roberts)

Doctor Who Storybooks

• Bing Bong (with Gareth Roberts)

Audio

Big Finish Main Range

• The One Doctor (with Gareth Roberts)
• Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (with Gareth Roberts)

Comics

DWM comic stories

• The Love Invasion (with Gareth Roberts)

Cover design work

DVD

• The Tomb of the Cybermen
• The Ark in Space
• Carnival of Monsters
• The Aztecs
• Resurrection of the Daleks
• The Seeds of Death
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• Earthshock
• The Two Doctors
• The Curse of Fenric
• The Three Doctors
• The Visitation
• Pyramids of Mars
• The Green Death
• The Leisure Hive
• Ghost Light
• Lost in Time
• Horror of Fang Rock
• The Mind Robber
• The Claws of Axos
• Revelation of the Daleks
• The Web Planet
• City of Death
• The Beginning box set
• Genesis of the Daleks
• Inferno
• The Mark of the Rani
• The Invasion
• New Beginnings box set
• Robot
• The Time Warrior
• The Key to Time box set
• The Complete Davros Collection box set
• Beneath the Surface box set
• The Time Meddler
• The Five Doctors: 25th Anniversary Edition
• Black Orchid
• The Invasion of Time
• Bred for War box set
• K9 Tales box set
• The Brain of Morbius
• The War Machines
• Four to Doomsday
• The Trial of a Time Lord box set
• Battlefield
• The E-Space Trilogy box set
• The Rescue/The Romans box set
• Attack of the Cybermen
• Image of the Fendahl
• The Deadly Assassin
• Delta and the Bannermen
• The War Games
• Remembrance of the Daleks: Special Edition
• The Black Guardian Trilogy box set
• The Twin Dilemma
• The Keys of Marinus
• Dalek War box set
• Peladon Tales box set
• The Masque of Mandragora
• The Space Museum/The Chase box set
• Myths and Legends box set
• The Creature from the Pit
• Kamelion Tales box set
• The Dominators
• Revenge of the Cybermen/Silver Nemesis box set
• Time and the Rani
• Revisitations 1 box set
• The Seeds of Doom
• Mara Tales box set
• Revisitations 2 box set
• Mannequin Mania box set
• Earth Story box set
• U.N.I.T Files box set
• Revisitations 3 box set
• Ace Adventures box set
• The Legacy Collection box set

Big Finish

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Fearmonger
• The Marian Conspiracy
• The Genocide Machine
• Red Dawn
• The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
• Winter of the Adept
• The Apocalypse Element
• The Fires of Vulcan
• The Shadow of the Scourge
• The Holy Terror
• The Mutant Phase
• Storm Warning
• Sword of Orion
• The Stones of Blood
• Minuet in Hell
• Loups-Garoux
• Dust Breeding
• Bloodtide
• Project: Twilight
• The Eye of the Scorpion
• Colditz
• Primeval
• The One Doctor
• Invaders from Mars
• The Chimes of Midnight
• Seasons of Fear
• Embrace the Darkness
• The Time of the Daleks
• Neverland
• Spare Parts
• ...ish
• The Rapture
• The Church and the Crown
• Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
• Jubilee
• Omega
• Davros
• Master
• Zagreus

Doctor Who Special Releases

• Shada

Dalek Empire

• Invasion of the Daleks
• The Human Factor
• "Death to the Daleks!"
• Project Destiny
• Dalek War: Chapter One
• Dalek War: Chapter Two
• Dalek War: Chapter Three
• Dalek War: Chapter Four
• The Exterminators
• The Healers
• The Survivors
• The Demons
• The Warriors
• The Future

Unbound

• Auld Mortality
• Sympathy for the Devil
• Full Fathom Five
• He Jests at Scars...
• Deadline
• Exile

Soundtracks

• Music from the New Audio Adventures - Volume 1
• Music from the New Audio Adventures - Volume 2
• Music from the New Audio Adventures - Volume 3

External links

• Clayton Hickman at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account