Edward Thomas was the production designer for almost every episode of Doctor Who from series 1 to series 5. He was also the production designer for every episode of Torchwood from series 1 to 3, the last two episodes of series 4 and UK unit work for the rest of that series and for series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
As a result, his influence on the look of the Doctor Who universe cannot be overestimated. It goes only a small way towards explaining his importance to note that he designed the TARDIS control room set for the Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and the initial Matt Smith era TARDIS, the Eccleston, Tennant and Smith era TARDIS exteriors, the Torchwood hub and Sarah Jane Smith's attic. After leaving Doctor Who, the TARDIS exterior prop Thomas designed for the Matt Smith era continued to be used into Peter Capaldi's run.
After The Big Bang, he relinquished his duties to Michael Pickwoad, then became the production designer for another BBC science fiction programme, Outcasts.
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- 42
- Adam
- Adrift
- The Age of Steel
- Aliens of London
- Army of Ghosts
- Attack of the Graske
- Bad Wolf
- The Beast Below
- The Big Bang
- Blink
- The Blood Line
- Boom Town
- Captain Jack Harkness
- 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
- The Christmas Invasion
- Cold Blood
- Combat
- Countrycide
- Cyberwoman
- Dalek
- Daleks in Manhattan
- Day One
- A Day in the Death
- Dead Man Walking
- The Doctor Dances
- The Doctor's Daughter
- Doomsday
- The Eleventh Hour
- The Empty Child
- End of Days
- The End of Time
- The End of the World
- Everything Changes
- Evolution of the Daleks
- Exit Wounds
- Eye of the Gorgon
- The Family of Blood
- Father's Day
- Fear Her
- The Fires of Pompeii
- Flesh and Stone
- Forest of the Dead
- Fragments
- From Out of the Rain
- The Gathering
- Ghost Machine
- The Girl in the Fireplace
- Greeks Bearing Gifts
- Gridlock
- Human Nature
- The Hungry Earth
- The Idiot's Lantern
- The Impossible Planet
- Invasion of the Bane
- Journey's End
- Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- Last of the Time Lords
- The Lazarus Experiment
- The Long Game
- The Lost Boy
- Love & Monsters
- Meat
- The Middle Men
- Midnight
- New Earth
- The New World
- The Next Doctor
- Out of Time
- The Pandorica Opens
- The Parting of the Ways
- Partners in Crime
- Planet of the Dead
- Planet of the Ood
- The Poison Sky
- Random Shoes
- Reset
- Revenge of the Slitheen
- Rise of the Cybermen
- Rose
- The Runaway Bride
- The Satan Pit
- School Reunion
- The Shakespeare Code
- Silence in the Library
- Sleeper
- Small Worlds
- Smith and Jones
- Something Borrowed
- The Sontaran Stratagem
- The Sound of Drums
- The Stolen Earth
- They Keep Killing Suzie
- The Time of Angels
- To the Last Man
- Tooth and Claw
- Turn Left
- The Unicorn and the Wasp
- The Unquiet Dead
- Utopia
- The Vampires of Venice
- Victory of the Daleks
- Vincent and the Doctor
- Voyage of the Damned
- Warriors of Kudlak
- The Waters of Mars
- Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
- World War Three
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Documentary[]
- TARDIS Tales
- The Daleks
- Special Effects
- Weird Science
- Designing Doctor Who
- The Ultimate Guide
- One Year On
- You've Got the Look