Gary Russell

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Gary Russell
Birth date:	18 September 1963
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer, Director, Script editor, Executive producer, Producer, Doctor Who Magazine editor, Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1985-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Famous Five, Octopussy, Wizards vs. Aliens, Prisoner Zero, Avalon
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Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963) was the editor of Doctor Who Magazine between 1992 and 1995. He was also the executive producer for Big Finish Productions from 1998 to 2006, when he stepped down to begin script editing for the BBC Wales Doctor Who series. He worked as producer for both the Bernice Summerfield series, as well as the Gallifrey series. He has written many Doctor Who novels, one of which was Spiral Scratch, which served as the acting regeneration story for the Sixth Doctor (for a while). His Doctor Who work is typically noted for an abundance of continuity references.

Russell has worked as an actor since childhood, including a teenage appearance in the James Bond film Octopussy. He had a minor role in The Airzone Solution, a production notable for the many ex-Doctor Who actors in it, including Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Nicola Bryant and Michael Wisher. He directed the animated stories The Infinite Quest and Dreamland. He wrote the jam-packed Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia. In 2008, he became the head writer for a new American Doctor Who comic book mini series published by IDW, retroactively titled Agent Provocateur. It should not be confused with IDW's later Doctor Who (2009), a true ongoing monthly comic book. He contributed to the Davros Connections documentary. He also was the drama producer for the 2011 adventure game The Gunpowder Plot and a voice director for the rest of the games.

He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

He was credited for his "invaluable assistance and generosity" in It's Even Bigger on the Inside, first published 2015, alongside many others.

In the DWU

• He and Scott Handcock play themselves as the directors of the story within the story in the audio story In Living Memory.

Bibliography

Novels

Virgin New Adventures

• Legacy

Virgin Missing Adventures

• Invasion of the Cat-People
• The Scales of Injustice

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures

• Deadfall

BBC Books novelisations

• Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

• Placebo Effect

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

• Business Unusual
• Divided Loyalties
• Instruments of Darkness
• Spiral Scratch

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

• Adorable Illusion

BBC New Series Adventures

• Beautiful Chaos
• The Glamour Chase
• Big Bang Generation

2 in 1 books

• Horror of the Space Snakes

Torchwood novels

• The Twilight Streets

The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations

• Warriors of Kudlak
• The Lost Boy
• The Last Sontaran
• Death of the Doctor

Short stories

Doctor Who Magazine

• The Legacy of Gallifrey
• Prelude Legacy

Brief Encounters

• Mistaken Identity

Short Trips

• Missing, Part One: Business as Usual (in More Short Trips)
• 64 Carlysle Street (in More Short Trips)
• Countdown to TV Action (in Short Trips and Side Steps)
• A Boy's Tale (in Short Trips: Companions)
• Repercussions... (linking material of Short Trips: Repercussions)
• Echoes (in Short Trips: The Centenarian)
• The Report (in Short Trips: Snapshots)
• Do You Dream in Colour? (in Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas)

Doctor Who Storybook

• The Puplet (in Doctor Who Storybook 2009)

Heroes and Monsters Collection

• The Stranger
• Normality
• Buyer's Remorse

The Twelve Doctors of Christmas

• Fairy Tale of New New York
• The Red Bicycle

Charity publications

• Clean Up Time (in Drabble Who)
• The Great Journey of Life Ends Here (in Perfect Timing 1)
• Head in the Sand (in Missing Pieces)
• The Beach (in Seasons of War)

Webcasts

• Real Time
• Shada (prologue)

Audio

Big Finish webcast adaptations

• Real Time
• Shada (prologue)

Big Finish main range

• Minuet in Hell (with Alan W. Lear)
• Zagreus (with Alan Barnes)
• The Next Life (with Alan Barnes)

Short Trips

• Erasure

Doctor Who Unbound

• He Jests at Scars...

Gallifrey

• Lies
• Annihilation (with Scott Handcock)

The Sarah Jane Adventures audiobooks

• The White Wolf

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

• The Curse of Fenman
• In Living Memory (with Scott Handcock)

Anthologies edited

Short Trips

• Short Trips: Repercussions
• Short Trips: The Solar System

Comics

Doctor Who Magazine

• Party Animals (with John Freeman)
• City of Devils (with John Freeman)
• Black Legacy (with Scott Gray)

Radio Times

• Dreadnought
• Descendance
• Ascendance
• Perceptions
• Coda
• Deceptions (unfinished)

IDW Publishing

• Agent Provocateur
• Cold Blooded War! (story; with Richard Starkings)

Torchwood Magazine

• Broken (with Nick Abadzis)
• Overture

Guides

• Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia

Nonfiction

• Doctor Who: Regeneration
• Doctor Who: The Inside Story

Video games

• Destiny of the Doctors (with Hannah Redler, Terrance Dicks and Andy Russell)
• The Orphans of the Polyoptra

Episodes script edited

Doctor Who

• The Waters of Mars
• The End of Time

Torchwood

• Dead Man Walking
• A Day in the Death
• Something Borrowed
• Fragments

The Sarah Jane Adventures

• The Last Sontaran
• The Day of the Clown
• Secrets of the Stars
• The Mark of the Berserker
• The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
• Enemy of the Bane
• Prisoner of the Judoon
• The Mad Woman in the Attic
• The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
• The Eternity Trap
• Mona Lisa's Revenge
• The Gift
• The Nightmare Man
• The Vault of Secrets
• Death of the Doctor
• The Empty Planet
• Lost in Time
• Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
• Sky
• The Curse of Clyde Langer
• The Man Who Never Was

Directed

Animations

• The Infinite Quest
• Dreamland
• Fury from the Deep (with Luke Marcatili)

Video Games

The Adventure Games

• City of the Daleks (voice director with Charles Cecil)
• Blood of the Cybermen (voice director with Charles Cecil)
• TARDIS (voice director with Charles Cecil)
• Shadows of the Vashta Nerada (voice director with Charles Cecil)
• The Gunpowder Plot (voice director and drama producer)

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• Whispers of Terror
• The Land of the Dead
• The Fearmonger
• The Marian Conspiracy
• Red Dawn
• Winter for the Adept
• The Fires of Vulcan
• The Shadow of the Scourge
• Storm Warning
• The Stones of Venice
• Dust Breeding
• Bloodtide
• Project: Twilight
• The Eye of the Scorpion
• Colditz
• Primeval
• The One Doctor
• Seasons of Fear
• Neverland
• Spare Parts
• The Sandman
• The Church and the Crown
• Project: Lazarus
• Flip-Flop
• Omega
• Davros
• Master
• Zagreus
• The Wormery
• Scherzo
• The Creed of the Kromon
• The Natural History of Fear
• The Twilight Kingdom
• The Axis of Insanity
• Arrangements for War
• The Harvest
• The Roof of the World
• Medicinal Purposes
• Faith Stealer
• The Last
• Caerdroia
• The Next Life
• The Juggernauts
• The Game
• Dreamtime
• Catch-1782
• Three's a Crowd
• The Council of Nicaea
• Terror Firma
• LIVE 34
• Singularity
• Other Lives
• Pier Pressure
• Night Thoughts
• The Kingmaker
• The Settling
• Red
• The Reaping
• The Gathering
• Memory Lane
• Year of the Pig

Novel Adaptations

• Love and War

Short Trips

• Erasure

Bernice Summerfield

• Beyond the Sun
• Walking to Babylon
• Just War
• The Secret of Cassandra
• The Extinction Event
• The Green-Eyed Monsters
• The Mirror Effect
• The Bellotron Incident
• Death and the Daleks
• The Grel Escape
• The Heart's Desire
• The Kingdom of the Blind
• The Lost Museum
• The Goddess Quandary
• The Crystal of Cantus
• The Wake
• The Kraken's Lament
• The Temple of Questions
• Private Enemy No. 1
• Judgement Day
• Brand Management
• Bad Habits
• Vesuvius Falling
• Everybody Loves Irving
• Many Happy Returns (with Scott Handcock and John Ainsworth)
• A Handful of Dust
• The Curse of Fenman

Gallifrey

• Weapon of Choice
• Square One
• The Inquiry
• A Blind Eye
• Lies
• Spirit
• Pandora
• Insurgency
• Imperiatrix
• Fractures
• Warfare
• Appropriation
• Mindbomb
• Panacea
• Reborn
• Disassembled
• Annihilation
• Forever
• Emancipation
• Evolution
• Arbitration
• Extermination
• Renaissance
• Ascension

Iris Wildthyme

• Wildthyme at Large
• The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme
• The Sound of Fear
• The Land of Wonder
• The Two Irises
• The Panda Invasion
• Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa
• The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society
• Iris Rides Out
• Midwinter Murders
• Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme
• Iris at the Oche
• A Life in Time

Sarah Jane Smith

• Comeback
• The Tao Connection
• Test of Nerve
• Ghost Town
• Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre

I, Davros

• Innocence
• Purity
• Corruption
• Guilt

Doctor Who Unbound

• Sympathy for the Devil
• He Jests at Scars...

Actor

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Marian Conspiracy - John Wilson
• Red Dawn - Razzburr
• The Holy Terror - Guard
• Dust Breeding - Jay Binks
• Project: Twilight - Newsreader
• The Eye of the Scorpion - Ebren
• Spare Parts - Philpott/Nurse
• The Church and the Crown - Piere
• Nekromanteia - Thesanius
• Omega - MediBot / VidiBot / Scintillans / Mugging Machine
• Master - Whispering Voices
• The Wormery - Psychic worm
• The Twilight Kingdom - Orvik
• The Juggernauts - Computer/Announcer

Bernice Summerfield

• Dragons' Wrath - Mappin Gilder
• The Crystal of Cantus - Thesanius
• The Judas Gift - Reporter
• Many Happy Returns - Vice Chancellor
• the Winning Side - First Yokel
• In Living Memory - Himself

Gallifrey

• Annihilation - Hollis

I, Davros

• Purity - Thal officer

External links

• Gary Russell at the Internet Movie Database
• Gary Russell at James Bond Wiki
• Official Facebook page
• Official Twitter account

• Gary Russell: From Peladon to Placebos (Interview conducted by Jon Preddle)
• The Gary Russell Interview: In conversation with Eddie
• BBC.co.uk website interview with Gary Russell, 01 January 2004
• Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: Gary Russell (archived)