Scott Handcock

Scott Handcock
Birth date:	8 November 1984
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Director, writer, script editor, producer, actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2006-present
IMDb profile

Scott Handcock (born 8 November 1984) is the author of several Doctor Who audio dramas and short stories. He has also directed many Big Finish audio dramas, covering Doctor Who, Torchwood, Class and more.

At BBC Wales, he started out as a runner on Doctor Who Confidential and The Sarah Jane Adventures, before becoming production secretary on Doctor Who from A Christmas Carol to The Wedding of River Song. In 2022, he joined Bad Wolf Productions as script editor for Doctor Who, doing so for the 60th Anniversary Specials and Season 1 (2023).

In 2020, he performed audio editing work for the Doctor Who: Lockdown! webcast Doctors Assembled!.

Personal life

During 2019's National Coming Out Day, Scott talked on Twitter about being gay. Outside his usual roles, he also created and hosted From Queer to Eternity, a podcast centred around LGBTQ+ individuals. In the course of this podcast series, he interviewed several fellow Big Finish contributors who were part of the community. He was also interviewed by Tom Price about his own experiences as a bonus episode.

In the DWU

He and Gary Russell play themselves as the directors of the story within the audio story In Living Memory.

Production Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• The Infinite Quest - production runner
• A Christmas Carol - production secretary
• The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon - production secretary
• The Curse of the Black Spot - production secretary
• The Doctor's Wife - production secretary
• The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People - production secretary
• A Good Man Goes to War - production secretary
• Let's Kill Hitler - production secretary
• Night Terrors - production secretary
• The Girl Who Waited - production secretary
• The God Complex - production secretary
• Closing Time - production secretary
• The Wedding of River Song - production secretary
• The Star Beast - script editor

Webcasts

Tales of the TARDIS

• Earthshock (TotT TV story) - producer
• The Mind Robber (TotT TV story) - producer
• Vengeance on Varos - producer
• The Three Doctors - producer
• The Time Meddler - producer
• The Curse of Fenric - producer

Daleks!

• The Archive of Islos - voice director
• The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy - voice director
• Planet of the Mechaniods - voice director
• The Deadly Ally - voice director
• Day of Reckoning - voice director

Video Games

Doctor Who Infinity

• The Lady of the Lake - writer

Short Stories

Short Trips

• Attachments - writer (in Short Trips: Snapshots)
• They Fell - writer (in Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas)

The Twelve Doctors of Christmas

• Ghost of Christmas Past - writer
• The Gift - writer

Tales of Terror

• The Living Image - writer
• The Patchwork Pierrot - writer

Iris Wildthyme short stories

• The Midnight Washerwomen - writer (in Iris: Abroad)

Audio

BBC Radio 4

• Imaginary Boys - director & producer

Doctor Who Main Range

• World Apart - writer
• The Helliax Rift - writer & producer
• Devil in the Mist - producer
• Black Thursday / Power Game - producer
• The Kamelion Empire - producer
• Tartarus - director & producer
• Interstitial / Feast of Fear - director & producer
• Warzone / Conversion - director & producer
• The Lovecraft Invasion - director
• Time Apart
  • Ghost Station - producer with Alfie Shaw
  • The Bridge Master - producer with Alfie Shaw
  • What Lurks Down Under - producer with Alfie Shaw
  • The Dancing Plague - producer with Alfie Shaw
• Thin Time / Madquake - director & producer

Special Releases

• The Worlds of Big Finish
  • The Archive - director & producer
  • The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber - director & producer
  • The Feast of Magog - director & producer
  • Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379) - director & producer
  • The Lady from Callisto Rhys - director & producer
  • The Phantom Wreck - director & producer
• Masterful
  • Masterful - director (for Mark Gatiss' dialogue only)

The Lost Stories

• Mind of the Hodiac - writer with Russell T Davies & director

The Fifth Doctor Adventures

• The Lost Resort and Other Stories
  • The Lost Resort - director & producer
  • The Perils of Nellie Bly - director & producer
  • Nightmare of the Daleks - producer with Alfie Shaw

The Sixth Doctor and Peri

• The Sixth Doctor and Peri: Volume One
  • The Headless Ones - director & producer
  • Like - director & producer
  • The Vanity Trap - director & producer
  • Conflict Theory - director & producer

Novel Adaptations

• Love & War - producer with Gary Russell
• The Highest Science - director
• Theatre of War - director
• All-Consuming Fire - director
• Nightshade - director

The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures

• The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures: Volume One
  • The Trial of a Time Machine - director & producer
  • Vanguard - director & producer
  • The Jabari Countdown - director & producer
  • The Dread of Night - director & producer

The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller

• The Dalek Trap - producer
• The Revolution - producer
• The House on the Edge of Chaos - producer
• Island of the Fendahl - producer

Time Lord Victorious

• He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not - director
• The Enemy of My Enemy - director
• Mutually Assured Destruction - director
• Echoes of Extinction - director

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

• Empire of the Racnoss - writer

The Doctor Chronicles

• The Ninth Doctor Chronicles
  • The Bleeding Heart - producer (with David Richardson)
  • The Window on the Moor - producer (with David Richardson)
  • The Other Side - writer & producer (with David Richardson)
  • Retail Therapy - producer (with David Richardson)
• The Tenth Doctor Chronicles
  • The Taste of Death - producer
  • Backtrack - producer
  • Wild Pastures - producer
  • Last Chance - producer
• The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles
  • The Calendar Man - producer
  • The Top of the Tree - producer
  • The Light Keepers - producer
  • False Coronets - producer

The Companion Chronicles

• The Magician's Oath - writer

Short Trips

• Rearguard - director
• The Threshold - director
• Death Will Not Part Us - director
• Salvage - director
• AWOL - director

Bernice Summerfield

• The Oracle of Delphi - writer
• Judgement Day - writer
• Paradise Frost - director
• Legion
  • Vesuvius Falling - producer with Gary Russell
  • Shades of Gray - writer, director & producer with Gary Russell
  • Everybody Loves Irving - producer with Gary Russell
• Many Happy Returns - writer with Xanna Eve Chown, Stephen Cole, Paul Cornell, Stephen Fewell, Simon Guerrier, Rebecca Levene, Jacqueline Rayner, Justin Richards, Miles Richardson, Eddie Robson and Dave Stone, director with Gary Russell
  • In Living Memory - writer with John Ainsworth and Gary Russell
• New Frontiers
  • A Handful of Dust - producer with Gary Russell
  • HMS Surprise - writer, producer with Gary Russell
  • The Curse of Fenman - producer with Gary Russell
• Missing Persons
  • Big Dig - director & producer both with Gary Russell
  • The Revenant's Carnival - director & producer both with Gary Russell
  • The Brimstone Kid - director & producer both with Gary Russell
  • The Winning Side - director & producer both with Gary Russell
  • In Living Memory - writer, director & producer all with Gary Russell
• The Story So Far: Volume One
  • Ever After Happy - director
  • The Grel Invasion of Earth - director
  • Braxiatel in Love - director
• The Story So Far: Volume Two
  • Every Dark Thought - director
  • Empress of the Drahvins - director
  • The Angels of History - director

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

• The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
  • The Revolution - director
  • Good Night, Sweet Ladies - director
  • Random Ghosts - director
  • The Lights of Skaro - director
• The Triumph of Sutekh
  • The Pyramid of Sutekh - director
  • The Vaults of Osiris - director
  • The Eye of Horus - director
  • The Tears of Isis - director
• The Unbound Universe
  • The Library in the Body - director
  • Planet X - director
  • The Very Dark Thing - director
  • The Emporium at the End - director
• Ruler of the Universe
  • The City and the Clock - director
  • Asking for a Friend - director
  • Truant - director
  • The True Saviour of the Universe - director
• Buried Memories
  • Pride of the Lampian - director
  • Clear History - director
  • Dead and Breakfast - director
  • Burrowed Time - director
• Lost in Translation
  • Have I Told You Lately? - director
  • The Undying Truth - director
  • Inertia - director
  • Gallifrey - director
• Blood & Steel
  • Willkommen - director
  • Wulf - director
  • Übermensch - director
  • Auf Wiedersehen - director

The Diary of River Song

• Concealed Weapon - writer

The Lone Centurion

• The Lone Centurion: Volume One
  • Gladiator - director & producer
  • The Unwilling Assassin - director & producer
  • I, Rorius - director & producer
• The Lone Centurion: Volume Two
  • The Once and Future Nurse - director & producer
  • The Glowing Warrior - director & producer
  • The Last King of Camelot - director & producer

UNIT: Brave New World

• Seabird One
  • Rogue State - director
  • Time Flies - director
  • Dark Side of the Moon - director
• Visitants
  • The Frequency - director
  • Haunt - director
  • The Last Line of Defence - director

Gallifrey

• Annihilation - writer with Gary Russell
• Gallifrey V
  • Emancipation - producer with Gary Russell
  • Evolution - producer with Gary Russell
  • Arbitration - producer with Gary Russell
• Gallifrey VI
  • Extermination - writer, producer with Gary Russell
  • Renaissance - producer with Gary Russell
  • Ascension - producer with Gary Russell
• Intervention Earth writer with David Llewellyn, director & producer
• Enemy Aliens - director & producer

Gallifrey: Time War

• Time War: Volume One
  • Celestial Intervention - director & producer
  • Soldier Obscura - director & producer
  • The Devil You Know - writer, director & producer
  • Desperate Measures - director & producer
• Time War: Volume Two
  • Havoc - director & producer
  • Partisans - director & producer
  • Collateral - director & producer
  • Assassins - director & producer
• Time War: Volume Three
  • Hostiles - director & producer
  • Nevernor - director & producer
  • Mother Tongue - director & producer
  • Unity - director & producer
• Time War: Volume Four
  • Deception - director & producer
  • Dissolution - director & producer
  • Beyond - director & producer
  • Homecoming - director & producer

The War Master

• Only the Good
  • Beneath the Viscoid - director & producer
  • The Good Master - director & producer
  • The Sky Man - director & producer
  • The Heavenly Paradigm - director & producer
• The Master of Callous
  • Call for the Dead - director & producer
  • The Glittering Prize - director & producer
  • The Persistence of Dreams - director & producer
  • Sins of the Father - director & producer
• Rage of the Time Lords
  • The Survivor - director & producer
  • The Coney Island Chameleon - director & producer
  • The Missing Link - director & producer
  • Darkness and Light - director & producer
• Anti-Genesis
  • From the Falmes - director & producer
  • The Master's Dalek Plan - director & producer
  • Shockwave - director & producer
  • He Who Wines - director & producer
• Hearts of Darkness
  • The Edge of Redemption - director & producer
  • The Scaramancer - director & producer
  • The Castle of Kurnos 5 - director & producer
  • The Cognition Shift - director & producer
• Killing Time
  • The Sincerest Form of Flattery - director & producer
  • A Quiet Night In - director & producer
  • The Orphan - director & producer
  • Unfinished Business - director & producer
• Self-Defence
  • The Forest of Penitence - director & producer
  • The Players - director & producer
  • Boundaries - director & producer
  • The Last Line - director & producer
• Escape from Reality
  • The Wrath of Medusa - director & producer
  • The Shadow Master - director & producer
  • The Adventure of the Deceased Doctor - director & producer
  • The Master of Dorian Gray - director & producer
• Solitary Confinement
  • The Walls of Absence - director & producer
  • The Long Despair - director & producer
  • The Life and Loves of Mr Alexander Bennett - director & producer
  • The Kicker - director, producer
• Rogue Encounters
  • Runtime - director & producer
  • Manhunt - director & producer
  • The Sublime Porte - director & producer
  • Alone - writer, director & producer

Class: The Audio Adventures

• Volume One
  • Gifted - director & producer
  • Life Experience - director & producer
  • Tell Me You Love Me - writer, director & producer
• Volume Two
  • Everybody Loves Raegan - director & producer
  • Now You Know... - director & producer
  • In Remembrance - director & producer
• Volume Three
  • The Soers' Ditch - director & producer
  • Catfish - director & producer
  • Sweet Nothings - director & producer
• Volume Four
  • Mock - director & producer
  • The Creeper - director & producer
  • Queen of Rhodia - director & producer
• Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince - director

Charlotte Pollard

• Charlotte Pollard: Series Two
  • Embankment Station - producer
  • Ruffling - producer
  • Seed of Chaos - producer
  • The Destructive Quality of Life - producer

Iris Wildthyme

• Wildthyme Reloaded
  • Comeback of the Scorchies - director & producer
  • Dark Side - director & producer
  • Oracle of the Supermarket - director & producer
  • Murder at the Abbey - director & producer
  • The Slots of Giza - director & producer
  • High Spirits - director & producer
  • An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium - writer, director & producer
  • Looking for a Friend - director & producer

Vienna

• Series Three
  • Self Improvement - director
  • Big Society - director
  • Impossibly Glamorous - director
• Retribution - director

The Year of Martha Jones

• The Year of Martha Jones
  • The Last Diner - director
  • Silver Medal - director
  • Deceived - director

Torchwood

• The Conspiracy - director
• Fall to Earth - director
• Forgotten Lives - director
• More Than This - director
• The Victorian Age - director
• Zone 10 - director
• Ghost Mission - director
• Moving Target - director
• Broken - director
• Made You Look - director
• Visiting Hours - director
• Corpse Day - director
• torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor - writer & director
• The Office of Never Was - director
• The Dying Room - director
• Deadbeat Escape - director
• Night of the Fendahl - director
• The Green Life - director
• Sync - director
• Sargasso - director
• Serenity - director
• The Hope - director
• Smashed - director
• Dead Man's Switch - director
• Expectant - director
• Dissected - director
• Tropical Beach Sounds and Other Relaxing Seascapes 4 - director
• Iceberg - director
• Dinner and a Show - director
• Save Our Souls - writer
• Ex Machina - director
• The Three Monkeys - director
• Rhys & Ianto's Excellent Barbecue - director
• Coffee - director
• Lease of Life - director
• Gooseberry - director
• The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough - director
• Madam, I'm - director
• Empire of Shadows - director
• Curios - director
• The Red List - director
• The Black Knight - director

Torchwood Special Releases

• The Torchwood Archive - director
• Outbreak - director

Torchwood Soho

• Parasite - director
• Ashenden - director
• The Unbegotten - director

The Lives of Captain Jack

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

Torchwood One

• Nightmares
  • My Guest Tonight - director
  • Lola - director
  • Less Majesty - director

Aliens Among Us

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

God Among Us

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

Among Us

• Among Us 1
  • Aliens Next Door - director
  • Colin Alone - director
  • Misty Eyes - director
  • Moderation - director
• Among Us 2
  • Propaganda - director
  • At Her Majesty's Pleasure - director
  • Cuckoo - director
  • Pariahs - director

The Sins of Captain John

• The Restored - director
• Escape from Nebazz - director
• Peach Blossom Heights - director
• Darker Purposes - director

Audiobooks

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Rising Night - writer
• Snake Bite - writer

Sarah Jane Adventures

• The Shadow People - writer

Acting Credits

Webcasts

The Collection

• Home Assistant - Home Assistant V14

Audio

Novel Adaptations

• Love and War - Piers Gavenal

Bernice Summerfield

• The Oracle of Delphi - Plato
• The Kraken's Lament - Guard captain
• Judgement Day - Caveman
• Bad Habits - Clive
• Everybody Loves Irving - Julezand
• A Handful of Dust - Sacker
• The Revenant's Carnival - Dressmaker
• In Living Memory - himself
• The Emporium at the End - Elevator

Gallifrey

• Disassembled - Guard Jevon
• Annihilation - Vekken

I, Davros

• Innocence - Kaled Officer
• Guilt - Saboteur

Iris Wildthyme

• The Sound of Fear - Mohanalee
• The Land of Wonder - White Rabbit
• The Two Irises - Barry
• Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa - Alfredo
• The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society - Emperor
• Iris Rides Out - Hog Lord
• Midwinter Murders- Sergeant Spartan
• A Lift in Time - Roland
• Murder at the Abbey - Albertson
• Looking for a Friend - Barman

Vienna

• Big Society - Motivational Speaker (uncredited)

External links

• Scott Handcock at the Internet Movie Database
• Doc Oho Reviews...: Scott Handcock Interview