James Goss

James Goss
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer, producer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2001-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Dark Shadows, The Confessions of Dorian Gray, Blake's 7, Dark Season
Twitter
IMDb profile

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James Goss started working for the official BBC website around the turn of the century. There, he started commissioning a series of animated webcasts with audio tracks produced firstly by the BBC and subsequently Big Finish Productions. This led onto commissioning full animated serials like Scream of the Shalka and The Infinite Quest.

He was also the producer of the BBCi TARDIS Cam series.

James Goss discusses The Invasion.

Goss originally commissioned the animation for the missing episodes 1 and 4 of The Invasion purely as a BBC website exclusive but Dan Hall liked it so much he included it on the DVD release in 2006. At the time the animated episodes garnered much speculation from fans as to whether more missing episodes would be animated in the future, however there were only a few sporadic releases until several years later. The new relationship with Dan Hall led Goss to be invited to contribute further to the DVD range and he produced a number of documentaries over the next five years.

At the same time Goss was developing himself as a freelance writer, he has written for both Torchwood and Doctor Who mainly for Big Finish. Other notable work of his includes novelising two of Douglas Adams' scripts for Doctor Who City of Death and The Pirate Planet. He is currently working for Big Finish on The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield series and especially dealing with everything Torchwood for them and contributing the odd Doctor Who story when he has time. Goss also wrote the special release Masterful to mark the 50th anniversary of the Master.

He wrote the anthology Now We Are Six Hundred. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

Goss was the producer of the multimedia Time Lord Victorious series. As part of the series he wrote the webcast series Daleks! and contributed short stories for the Eaglemoss figurine collections and the Doctor Who website.

Goss produced the second series of Redacted for BBC Sounds.

Personal life

Goss is gay, and self-decreed as tired.

In the DWU

Goss wrote himself into the DWU in the in-universe edition of the writer's notes of the audio drama The Scorchies, where he looked back upon a (fictional) childhood growing up with The Scorchies Show. Goss was also mentioned in Dead Air.

Writing Credits

Webcasts

Doctor Who: Lockdown!

• Doctors Assemble!

Daleks!

• The Archive of Islos
• The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy
• Planet of the Mechanoids
• The Deadly Ally
• Day of Reckoning

Novels

Target Novelisations

• The Giggle

BBC Books Novelisations

• City of Death
• The Pirate Planet
• Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
• Scratchman (with Tom Baker)

BBC New Series Adventures

• Dead of Winter
• The Blood Cell
• Summer Falls (attributed to Amelia Williams)

BBC Torchwood Novels

• Almost Perfect
• Risk Assessment
• First Born

BBC Class Novels

• What She Does Next Will Astound You

Short Stories

Short Trips

• Indian Summer (in Short Trips: Snapshots)
• Phoenix (in Short Trips: Indefinable Magic)

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who

• The Room with All the Doors

Time Lord Victorious

• The Dawn of the Kotturuh
• Can I Help You?
• The Restoration Empire
• The Last Message
• What the TARDIS thought of “Time Lord Victorious“
• Mission to the Known
• Exit Strategy

Summer Falls and Other Stories

• Summer Falls: Introduction
• Summer Falls
• The Girl Who Never Grew Up

The Legends of Ashildr

• The Arabian Knightmare

The Missy Chronicles

• Dismemberment

Bernice Summerfield

• The Death of Hope (in In Time)

Torchwood Magazine

• We All Go Through (with Steve Tribe)

The Scorchies

• Writer's Notes

Doom's Day

• Hour One
• Out of Time

U.N.I.T.

• UNIT Publications

Audio

BBC Radio

• Golden Age
• The House of the Dead

Doctor Who Main Range

• Mask of Tragedy
• Ghost Walk

Special Releases

• Lies in Ruins (in The Legacy of Time)
• Masterful (in Masterful)

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Silent Scream

The Tenth Doctor Adventures

• Death and the Queen
• No Place

The Tenth Doctor and River Song

• Expiry Dating

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

• Harvest of the Sycorax

Once and Future

• The Artist at the End of Time

The Ninth Doctor Chronicles

• Retail Therapy

The Tenth Doctor Chronicles

• Wild Pastures

The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles

• Curiosity

The Companion Chronicles

• The Time Museum
• The Last Post
• The Scorchies

Short Trips

• The Hesitation Deviation
• How to Win Planets and Influence People

Bernice Summerfield

• The Winning Side
• The Lights of Skaro
• The Eye of Horus
• The Library in the Body
• Asking for a Friend
• The True Saviour of the Universe
• Ever After Happy
• Inertia
• Willkommen

Jago & Litefoot

• The Night of 1000 Stars
• Encore of the Scorchies
• The Mourning After

The Diary of River Song

• Signs
• World Enough and Time
• Colony of Strangers
• Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow
• Harvest of the Krotons

Missy

• Body and Soulless

Counter-Measures

• The Fifth Citadel

Gallifrey

• Renaissance

Iris Wildthyme

• Comeback of the Scorchies

Vienna

• Tabula Rasa

Rani Takes on the World

• Destination: Wedding

The War Master

• The Sky Man
• Call for the Dead
• The Glittering Prize
• The Sincerest Form of Flattery
• Unfinished Business
• The Walls of Absence
• The Sublime Porte

The Year of Martha Jones

• The Last Diner

Donna Noble: Kidnapped

• The Sorcerer of Albion

Lady Christina

• Skin Deep
• The Wreck

Torchwood

• Fall to Earth
• Ghost Mission
• Corpse Day
• The Office of Never Was
• Goodbye Piccadilly
• Instant Karma (with David Llewellyn and Jonathan Morris)
• Deadbeat Escape
• The Hope
• Smashed
• Fortitude
• Red Base
• The Three Monkeys
• Coffee
• Gooseberry
• Madam, I'm
• Empire of Shadows
• Curios
• The Great Sontaran War
• The Red List
• Death in Venice
• Oodunnit

Torchwood Special Releases

• The Torchwood Archive
• A Postcard from Mr Colchester

Torchwood Soho

• Parasite
• Ashenden
• The Unbegotten

Torchwood One

• Less Majesty

Aliens Among Us

• Changes Everything
• Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy
• Herald of the Dawn

God Among Us

• Future Pain
• Thoughts and Prayers

Among Us

• Moderation
• Pariahs
• How I Conquered the World - with Tim Foley & Ash Darby
• The Apocalypse Starts at 6PM

The Lives of Captain Jack

• Wednesdays For Beginners
• One Enchanted Evening
• Piece of Mind
• Driving Miss Wells
• R&J

Audiobooks

BBC New Series Adventures

• Dead Air
• The Hounds of Artemis
• The Art of Death
• The Gods of Winter
• The Sins of Winter

BBC Torchwood Audiobooks

• Department X
• Ghost Train

Acting Credits

The Lives of Captain Jack

• Month 25 - Member of the Council

Producing Credits

Animation projects

• Death Comes to Time
• Real Time
• Shada
• Scream of the Shalka
• The Invasion (animated episodes 1 & 4)
• The Infinite Quest

Documentaries

• Flash Frames for The Invasion DVD
• Love Off-Air for The Invasion DVD
• All Aboard the Starliner for Full Circle DVD
• The Vampire Lovers for State of Decay DVD
• Lalla's Wardrobe for Warriors' Gate DVD
• Talking About Regeneration for The War Games DVD
• Defending the Museum for The Space Museum DVD
• The Thrill of The Chase for The Chase DVD
• Last Stop White City for The Chase DVD
• Cusick in Cardiff for The Chase DVD
• Daleks Beyond the Screen for The Chase DVD
• Daleks Conquer and Destroy for The Chase DVD
• The Curse of the Cybermen's Tomb for The Tomb of the Cybermen Special Edition DVD
• The Doctors Revisited
• Carry On Screaming for Scream of the Shalka DVD

Audio

Doctor Who: Redacted

• Regrets
• Apex
• Underground
• Spaceman
• Reboot
• Redemption

Novel Adaptations

• Nightshade
• Original Sin

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

• The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
  • The Revolution
  • Good Night, Sweet Ladies
  • Random Ghosts
  • The Lights of Skaro
• The Triumph of Sutekh
  • The Pyramid of Sutekh
  • The Vaults of Osiris
  • The Eye of Horus
  • The Tears of Isis
• The Unbound Universe
  • The Library in the Body
  • Planet X
  • The Very Dark Thing
  • The Emporium at the End
• Ruler of the Universe
  • The City and the Clock
  • Asking for a Friend
  • Truant
  • The True Saviour of the Universe
• Treasury
• The Story So Far: Volume One
  • Ever After Happy
  • The Grel Invasion of Earth
  • Braxiatel in Love
• The Story So Far: Volume Two
  • Every Dark Thought
  • Empress of the Drahvins
  • The Angels of History
• Buried Memories
  • Pride of the Lampian
  • Clear History
  • Dead and Breakfast
  • Burrowed Time
• Lost in Translation
  • Have I Told You Lately?
  • The Undying Truth
  • Inertia
  • Gallifrey
• Blood & Steel
  • Willkommen
  • Wulf
  • Übermensch
  • Auf Wiedersehen

The Diary of River Song

• The Orphan Quartet
  • The Excise Men
  • Harvest of the Krotons
  • Dead Man Talking
  • The Wife of River Song - with David Richardson

Torchwood

• The Conspiracy
• Fall to Earth
• Forgotten Lives
• One Rule
• Uncanny Valley
• More Than This
• The Victorian Age
• Zone 10
• Ghost Mission
• Moving Target
• Broken
• Made You Look
• Visiting Hours
• The Dollhouse
• Corpse Day
• Torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor
• The Office of Never Was
• The Dying Room
• The Death of Captain Jack
• The Last Beacon
• We Always Get Out Alive
• Goodbye Piccadilly
• Instant Karma
• Deadbeat Escape
• Night of the Fendahl
• The Green Life
• Sync
• Sargasso
• Serenity
• The Hope
• The Vigil
• Smashed
• Dead Man's Switch
• Expectant
• Fortitude
• Dissected
• Tropical Beach Sounds and Other Relaxing Seascapes #4
• Iceberg
• Dinner and a Show
• Save Our Souls
• Red Base
• Ex Machina
• The Three Monkeys
• Rhys & Ianto's Excellent Barbecue
• The Crown
• Coffee
• Lease of Life
• Gooseberry
• The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough
• Madam, I'm
• Empire of Shadows
• Curios
• The Great Sontaran War (with Alfie Shaw)
• The Red List
• The Grey Mare
• Cadoc Point
• Sonny
• The Black Knight
• Infidel Places
• War Chest
• Dead Plates
• Restricted Items Archive Entries 031-049
• Suckers
• Death in Venice
• SUV
• The Lincolnshire Poacher
• The Empire Man
• Double
• The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello
• Thirst Trap
• Launch Date
• Sigil
• Dog Hop
• Odyssey
• Oodunnit
• Oracle
• Poppet

Torchwood Special Releases

• The Torchwood Archive
• Outbreak
• Believe
• The Sins of Captain John
  • The Restored
  • Escape from Nebazz
  • Peach Blossom Heights
  • Darker Purposes
• A Postcard from Mr Colchester

Torchwood Soho

• Parasite
• Ashenden
• The Unbegotten

Torchwood One

• Before the Fall
  • New Girl
  • Through the Ruins
  • Uprising
• Machines
  • The Law Machines
  • Blind Summit
  • 9 to 5
• Latter Days
  • Retirement Plan
  • Locker 15
  • The Rockery
• Nightmares
  • My Guest Tonight
  • Lola
  • Less Majesty

Aliens Among Us

• Aliens Among Us 1
  • Changes Everything
  • Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy
  • Orr
  • Superiority Complex
• Aliens Among Us 2
  • Love Rat
  • A Kill to a View
  • Zero Hour
  • The Empty Hand
• Aliens Among Us 3
  • Poker Face
  • Tagged
  • Escape Room
  • Herald of the Dawn

God Among Us

• God Among Us 1
  • Future Pain
  • The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood
  • See No Evil
  • Night Watch
• God Among Us 2
  • Flight 405
  • Hostile Environment
  • Another Man's Shoes
  • Eye of the Storm
• God Among Us 3
  • A Mother's Son
  • ScrapeJane
  • Day Zero
  • Thoughts and Prayers

Among Us

• Among Us 1
  • Aliens Next Door
  • Colin Alone
  • Misty Eyes
  • Moderation
• Among Us 2
  • Propaganda
  • At Her Majesty's Pleasure
  • Cuckoo
  • Pariahs
• Aliens Among Us 3
  • Poker Face
  • Tagged
  • Escape Room
  • Herald of the Dawn

The Lives of Captain Jack

• The Lives of Captain Jack
  • The Year After I Died
  • Wednesdays For Beginners
  • One Enchanted Evening
  • Month 25
• The Lives of Captain Jack: Volume Two
  • Piece of Mind
  • What Have I Done?
  • Driving Miss Wells
• The Lives of Captain Jack: Volume Three
  • Crush
  • Mighty and Despair
  • R&J

Editor Credits

Doctor Who tie-in websites

• Who is Doctor Who?
• U.N.I.T.
• GEOCOMTEX
• Bad Wolf
• British Rocket Group

External links

• James Goss at the Internet Movie Database
• Skip's Acorn Treasury, Goss' blog
• Official Twitter account
• Interview with author James Goss - Voice Mag