Brian Minchin

Brian Minchin
Birth date:	5 August 1978
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Executive producer Script editor Producer Writer
Stories:	Torchwood series 1-2; series 4 The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4-5 Doctor Who series 4-5; series 7-10 Class series 1
Main time period active:	2007-17
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Wizards vs. Aliens Dirk Gently Down
IMDb profile

Brian Minchin (born 5 August 1978) was executive producer on Doctor Who from the 2013 Christmas Special The Time of the Doctor to the 2017 Christmas Special Twice Upon a Time, and was an executive producer on Class. Prior to this, he had held a variety of positions on all the other BBC Wales-produced shows in the DWU stable.

He was a script editor for Doctor Who and Torchwood. He was also a producer for The Sarah Jane Adventures and producer of the UK side of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Notably, he was the first non-show running BBC Wales executive producer to have any writing credits in the franchise. By the time he had been appointed executive producer, he had already written a novel, a comic strip and an audio adventure.

Personal life

Minchin is married to fellow Who alumnus Lindsey Alford.

Credits

Television

Executive producer

• Before the Flood
• Brave-ish Heart
• The Caretaker
• Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart
• The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo
• Dark Water
• Death in Heaven (DWE episode)
• Death in Heaven
• Deep Breath
• Detained
• The Doctor Falls
• Doctor Who Extra
• The Eaters of Light
• Empress of Mars
• Extremis
• Face the Raven
• Flatline
• For Tonight We Might Die
• The Girl Who Died
• Heaven Sent
• Hell Bent
• The Husbands of River Song
• In the Forest of the Night (DWE episode)
• In the Forest of the Night
• Into the Dalek
• Kill the Moon
• Knock Knock
• Last Christmas (DWE episode)
• Last Christmas
• The Lie of the Land
• Listen
• The Lost
• The Magician's Apprentice
• The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did
• Mummy on the Orient Express
• Nightvisiting
• Oxygen
• The Pilot
• Prologue (DWE episode)
• The Pyramid at the End of the World
• The Return of Doctor Mysterio
• Robot of Sherwood
• Sleep No More
• Smile
• Thin Ice
• Time Heist
• The Time of the Doctor
• Twice Upon a Time
• Under the Lake
• The Witch's Familiar
• The Woman Who Lived
• World Enough and Time
• The Zygon Invasion
• The Zygon Inversion

Producer

• The Categories of Life
• The Curse of Clyde Langer
• Death of the Doctor
• The Empty Planet
• The Gathering
• Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
• Lost in Time
• The Man Who Never Was
• The Middle Men
• The New World
• The Nightmare Man
• Series 4 (SJA)
• Series 5 (SJA)
• Sky
• The Vault of Secrets

Assistant producer

• Children of Earth: Day Five
• Children of Earth: Day Four
• Children of Earth: Day One
• Children of Earth: Day Three
• Children of Earth: Day Two

Script editor

• Adam
• Amy's Choice
• The Beast Below
• Captain Jack Harkness
• Combat
• Countrycide
• Cyberwoman
• Day One
• End of Days
• Everything Changes
• The Fires of Pompeii
• From Out of the Rain
• Ghost Machine
• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
• Meat
• Out of Time
• Random Shoes
• Reset
• Sleeper
• Small Worlds
• They Keep Killing Suzie
• To the Last Man
• Turn Left
• The Vampires of Venice
• Victory of the Daleks
• Vincent and the Doctor
• Voyage of the Damned

Radio

Producer

• Golden Age

Writing credits

Novels

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Forgotten Army

Short fiction

• The Man Who Dreamed of Stars

Audio

BBC Torchwood audio stories

• The Sin Eaters

Comics

Torchwood comic stories

• The Return of the Vostok
• Fated to Pretend

External links

• Brian Minchin at the Internet Movie Database
• Brian Minchin at the Doctor Who: Lockdown! wiki