Mike Tucker

Mike Tucker was a Visual Effects Assistant on Doctor Who from 1985 to 1989, and model unit supervisor when the series returned in 2005. He is one of the few behind-the-scenes personnel to work on both the 1963 and 2005 versions of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who Novels
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
 * Illegal Alien (with Robert Perry)
 * Matrix (with Robert Perry)
 * Storm Harvest (with Robert Perry)
 * Prime Time
 * Loving the Alien (with Robert Perry)

BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures
 * The Nightmare of Black Island
 * ''Snowglobe 7

Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Dramas

 * The Genocide Machine
 * Dust Breeding

Telos Doctor Who Novellas

 * Companion Piece (with Robert Perry)

Doctor Who Short Stories

 * Brief Encounters - Girls' Night In (with Robert Perry)
 * Decalog 2: Lost Property - Question Mark Pyjamas (with Robert Perry)
 * Short Trips - Stop the Pigeon and Ace of Hearts (both with Robert Perry)
 * More Short Trips - The Sow in Rut and Missing, Part Two: Message in a Bottle (both with Robert Perry)
 * Short Trips and Side Steps - Storm in a Tikka (with Robert Perry)

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series

 * The Stone's Lament
 * The Bellotron Incident

Tenth Doctor comic strip stories

 * Jewel of the Vile / Lock, Stocks and Barrel / End Game

The Darksmith Legacy

 * The Art of War

Non-Fiction

 * "Ace! - the Inside Story of the End of an Era". Co-written with Sophie Aldred, this book describes Tucker's work on Doctor Who during the 1980s. (Published by Virgin Publishing in 1996. (ISBN 1-85227-574-X).)

He has written about his work for the series in the following issues of the magazine

"Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller":


 * Volume 1: "Miniature Effects in the New Series of Doctor Who"


 * Volume 2: "Miniature Effects in the Doctor Who Christmas Special" (Describes work on "The Christmas Invasion")


 * Volume 7: "Citadels, Spacecraft and Circus Tents: Dr Who Miniature Effects in the late 1980's"

(Additionally, Volume 3 contains Tucker's article on his work on a documentary about the last flight of the Space Shuttle "Columbia", whilst Volume 9 contains his article on the restoration of the "Heart of Gold" from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.)