John Ainsworth is a producer, director, script-editor and occasional voice actor for Big Finish Productions. He was also the editor of Doctor Who Insider and comic stories in Doctor Who Magazine. He appeared in Auton from BBV Productions, as well as the Reeltime Pictures production, The Corridor Sketch. During the early days of Big Finish, he was also credited for press and PR and as the site editor of the discontinued website www.bernicesummerfield.com.
Production Credits
Audio
Doctor Who Main Range
- Nekromanteia - director
- Unregenerate! - director
- No Man's Land - director
- Circular Time - director
- Nocturne - director
- Renaissance of the Daleks - director
- I.D. - director
- Urgent Calls - director
- Valhalla - director
- The Wishing Beast - director
- The Vanity Box - director
- Survival of the Fittest - director
- Klein's Story - director
- The Architects of History - director
- The Lure of the Nomad - director and producer
- Iron Bright - director and producer
- Hour of the Cybermen - producer
- The Hunting Ground - director and producer
- Memories of a Tyrant - director and producer
- Emissary of the Daleks - director and producer
- Harry Houdini's War - producer
- Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories
- Blood on Santa's Claw - director and producer
- The Baby Awakes - director and producer
- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day - director and producer
- Brightly Shone The Moon That Night - director and producer
- Cry of the Vultriss - director and producer
- Scorched Earth - director and producer
- The Lovecraft Invasion - producer
- Plight of the Pimpernel - director and producer
- Colony of Fear - director and producer
Special Releases
- Return of the Daleks - director
The Lost Stories
- The Nightmare Fair - director
- The Hollows of Time - director
- Point of Entry - director
- The Song of the Megaptera - director
- The Macros - director
The Eighth Doctor: The Time War
- The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Two - director (with Helen Goldwyn)
The Stageplays
- Seven Keys to Doomsday - director
Destiny of the Doctor
- Hunters of Earth - director and producer
- Shadow of Death - director and producer
- Vengeance of the Stones - director and producer
- Babblesphere - director and producer
- Smoke and Mirrors - director and producer
- Trouble in Paradise - director and producer
- Shockwave - director and producer
- Enemy Aliens - director and producer
- Night of the Whisper - director and producer
- Death's Deal - director and producer
- The Time Machine - director and producer
The Companion Chronicles
- Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code - director
- Peri and the Piscon Paradox - director
Doctor Who Unbound
- Auld Mortality - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- Sympathy for the Devil - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- Full Fathom Five - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- He Jests at Scars... - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- Deadline - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- Exile - producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- A Storm of Angels - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
Bernice Summerfield
- Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis - director
- Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death - director
- The Tartarus Gate - director
- Timeless Passages - director
- Glory Days - director
- Absence - director
- Venus Mantrap - director
- Secret Origins - director
- Resurrecting the Past - director and producer
- Escaping the Future - director and producer
- Year Zero - director and producer
- Dead Man's Switch - director and producer
- Epoch
- The Kraken's Lament - producer (with Gary Russell)
- The Temple of Questions - producer (with Gary Russell)
- Private Enemy No. 1 - producer (with Gary Russell)
- Judgement Day - producer (with Gary Russell)
- Many Happy Returns - director (with Gary Russell and Scott Handcock), and producer
UNIT
- Snake Head - director
Sarah Jane Smith
- Buried Secrets - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- Snow Blind - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- Fatal Consequences - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
- Dreamland - director, and producer (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
Jago & Litefoot
- The Spirit Trap - director
Dalek Empire
- Dalek Empire I
- Invasion of the Daleks - script editor
- The Human Factor - script editor
- "Death to the Daleks!" - script editor
- Project Infinity - script editor
- Dalek Empire II: Dalek War
- Chapter One - script editor
- Chapter Two - script editor
- Chapter Three - script editor
- Chapter Four - script editor
- Dalek Empire III
- The Exterminators - script editor
- The Healers - script editor
- The Survivors - script editor
- The Demons - script editor
- The Warriors - script editor
- The Future - script editor
- Dalek Empire IV
- The Fearless: Part 1 - script editor
- The Fearless: Part 2 - script editor
- The Fearless: Part 3 - script editor
- The Fearless: Part 4 - script editor
Cyberman
- Scorpius - script editor
- Fear - script editor
- Conversion - script editor
- Telos - script editor
- Cyberman 2 - script editor
Webcast
Bernice Summerfield
- Dead and Buried - producer
Comics
Doctor Who Magazine
- The Instruments of War - editor (with Scott Gray)
- Space Invaders! - editor (with Scott Gray)
- Blood and Ice - editor (with Scott Gray)
- Spirits of the Jungle - editor (with Scott Gray)
- The Highgate Horror - editor (with Scott Gray)
- The Dragon Lord - editor (with Scott Gray)
- Witch Hunt - editor (with Scott Gray)
- The Stockbridge Showdown - editor
- The Pestilent Heart - editor (with Scott Gray)
Acting Credits
Webcast
Bernice Summerfield
Audio
BBV Productions
The Time Travellers
- Republica - Equerry
- The Left Hand of Darkness - Computer
- The Other Side - Additional voices
Auton Trilogy
Doctor Who Main Range
- The Fearmonger - Hospital Tannoy Voice
- Nekromanteia - Soldier
Gallifrey
Bernice Summerfield
- Many Happy Returns - Casino Robot