Justin Richards

Justin Richards
Birth date:	14 September 1961
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer, Script editor, BBC Books Consultant
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1994-2018, 2021
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Justin Richards (born 14 September 1961) is an author who has written over a dozen novels as well as articles, audio plays and some non-fiction. In the past, he has worked variously as a technical writer, editor, book designer, fiction editor, software architect, business strategist for a multinational corporation and an odd job man at a hotel for postmen.

At one point he acted as Range Consultant for the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who series. He is registered as an inventor in the European Union and also has patents registered in the US and Japan.

Justin is married with two children, the older of whom is also a writer and has written for Big Finish's The Companion Chronicles and Short Trips ranges.

Justin is the brother of Toby Richards.

Credits

Webcasts

Monster Files

• Adipose
• Pyrovile
• Ood
• Slitheen
• Sontarans
• Hath
• Vespiform
• Judoon
• Vashta Nerada
• Midnight
• The Trickster's Brigade
• Daleks
• Davros
• Christmas
• Cybermen
• Weeping Angels
• Vampires
• Silurians

Novels

Virgin New Adventures

• Theatre of War

Virgin Missing Adventures

• System Shock
• The Sands of Time

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

• Option Lock
• Demontage
• The Banquo Legacy (with Andy Lane)
• The Burning
• Time Zero
• Sometime Never...

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

• Dreams of Empire
• Millennium Shock
• Grave Matter
• The Shadow in the Glass (with Stephen Cole)

Telos novellas

• Foreword to Time and Relative

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Clockwise Man
• The Deviant Strain
• The Resurrection Casket
• Martha in the Mirror
• Code of the Krillitanes
• Apollo 23
• The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery
• Devil in the Smoke: An Adventure for the Great Detective
• Plague of the Cybermen
• Silhouette

The Darksmith Legacy

• The Dust of Ages
• The Depths of Despair
• The Planet of Oblivion
• The End of Time

2 in 1 books

• Death Riders

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures

• Dragons' Wrath
• The Medusa Effect
• Tears of the Oracle
• The Joy Device

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield novels

• The Doomsday Manuscript

A Short History of Everyone

• A Short History of Everyone

Short stories

Brief Encounter

• Briefly Noted (in Doctor Who Yearbook 1995)

Doctor Who Magazine

• Prelude Theatre of War

Virgin Decalogs

• Dependence Day (with Andy Lane; in Decalog 4: Re:Generations)

Short Trips

• Dr Who and the House on Oldark Moor (in Short Trips and Side Steps)
• The Splintered Gate (in Short Trips: Companions)
• The Glass Princess (in Short Trips: The Muses)
• Mutually Assured Survival (in Short Trips: Dalek Empire)

Bernice Summerfield Short Stories

• The All-Seeing Eye (in A Life of Surprises)
• Careless Talk (in Life During Wartime)

Iris Wildthyme

• Most Horrid (in Wildthyme on Top)

Doctor Who Files

• Taking Mickey
• A Dog's Life
• Mission to Galacton
• Going Off the Rails
• Needle Point
• Best Friends
• Birth of a Legend
• The Secret of the Stones
• Blind Terror
• Disappearing Act
• Speech Day

Doctor Who Storybooks

• Gravestone House (in Doctor Who Storybook 2007)
• Kiss of Life (in Doctor Who Storybook 2008)

Doctor Who annuals

• The Planet That Wept (in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2008)
• Once Upon a Time (in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009)
• Most Beautiful Music (in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009)
• Blind Fury (in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011)
• Secret of Arkatron (in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011)
• Amy's Escapade (in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012)
• Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday (in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012)
• Rory's Adventure (in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012)

The Weeping Angels

• Suddenly in a Graveyard
• Living History

BBC New Series Adventures

• Let it Snow (in Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand)
• The Shakespeare Notebooks
• Natural Regression (in The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who)
• Time Lord Fairy Tales
• The Ghosts of Branscombe Wood (in The Legends of Ashildr)
• The American Adventures

Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe

• The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (with George Mann and Cavan Scott)

Comics

BBC Graphic Novels

• The Only Good Dalek
• The Dalek Project

Audio

BBC Audio

• Men of War
• Horrors of War
• Fortunes of War

Doctor Who Main Range

• Whispers of Terror (also voiced Answerphone Message)
• Red Dawn
• The Time of the Daleks
• The Rani Elite
• Vampire of the Mind

Special Releases

• Mind Games (in The Worlds of Doctor Who)
• The Reesinger Process (in The Worlds of Doctor Who)
• Second Sight (with Nick Wallace; in The Worlds of Doctor Who)

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Renaissance Man
• The Darkness of Glass
• Wave of Destruction
• The Beast of Kravenos
• The Shadow of London

The Early Adventures

• The Forsaken
• The Morton Legacy

The Third Doctor Adventures

• Prisoners of the Lake

Novel Adaptations

• Theatre of War

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

• The Vaults of Osiris

Bernice Summerfield

• Dragons' Wrath (adapted by Jacqueline Rayner)
• Many Happy Returns (with Xanna Eve Chown, Stephen Cole, Paul Cornell, Stephen Fewell, Simon Guerrier, Scott Handcock, Rebecca Levene, Jacqueline Rayner, Miles Richardson, Eddie Robson and Dave Stone)

Gallifrey

• The Inquiry
• Pandora
• Mindbomb
• Disassembled
• Ascension

Jago and Litefoot

• The Bloodless Soldier
• Litefoot and Sanders
• Dead Men's Tales
• The Hourglass Killers
• The Final Act
• The Trial of George Litefoot
• The Wax Princess
• Higson & Quick
• The Devil's Dicemen
• Return of the Nightmare
• The Haunting
• The Museum of Curiosities
• Masterpiece
• Picture This
• Warm Blood
• Too Much Reality
• A Command Performance (with Julian Richards and adapted by Julian Richards)

Counter-Measures

• State of Emergency
• The Concrete Cage

The Diary of River Song

• I Went to a Marvellous Party

The Churchill Years

• Living History

The Sarah Jane Adventures

• The Thirteenth Stone

Reference books

• The Book of Lists (with Andrew Martin)
• The Legend
• Monsters and Villains
• The Legend Continues
• Aliens and Enemies
• Creatures and Demons
• Starships and Spacestations
• The Ultimate Monster Guide
• 100 Scariest Monsters
• Doctor Who 50: The Essential Guide
• The Whoniverse (with George Mann)

External links

• Doc Oho's Reviews: Justin Richards Interview
• BBC.co.uk website interview with Justin Richards, 01 January 2004
• Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: Justin Richards (archived)