Gary Russell

Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963^[1]) 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).

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 Edit

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

Bibliography Edit

Novels Edit

Virgin New Adventures Edit

• Legacy

Virgin Missing Adventures Edit

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

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures Edit

• Deadfall

BBC Books novelisations Edit

• Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Edit

• Placebo Effect

BBC Past Doctor Adventures Edit

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

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series Edit

• Adorable Illusion

BBC New Series Adventures Edit

• Beautiful Chaos
• The Glamour Chase
• Big Bang Generation

2 in 1 books Edit

• Horror of the Space Snakes

Torchwood novels Edit

• The Twilight Streets

The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations Edit

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

Short stories Edit

Doctor Who Magazine Edit

• Prelude Legacy

Brief Encounters Edit

• Mistaken Identity

Short Trips Edit

• 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 Edit

• The Puplet (in Doctor Who Storybook 2009)

Heroes and Monsters Collection Edit

• The Stranger
• Normality
• Buyer's Remorse

The Twelve Doctors of Christmas Edit

• Fairy Tale of New New York
• The Red Bicycle

Charity publications Edit

• 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 Edit

• Real Time
• Shada (prologue)

Audio Edit

Big Finish webcast adaptations Edit

• Real Time
• Shada (prologue)

Big Finish main range Edit

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

Short Trips Edit

• Erasure

Doctor Who Unbound Edit

• He Jests at Scars...

Gallifrey Edit

• Lies
• Annihilation (with Scott Handcock)

The Sarah Jane Adventures audiobooks Edit

• The White Wolf

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series Edit

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

Anthologies edited Edit

Short Trips Edit

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

Comics Edit

Doctor Who Magazine Edit

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

Radio Times Edit

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

IDW Publishing Edit

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

Torchwood Magazine Edit

• Broken (with Nick Abadzis)
• Overture

Guides Edit

• Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia

Nonfiction Edit

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

Video games Edit

• The Orphans of the Polyoptra

Episodes script edited Edit

Doctor Who Edit

• The Waters of Mars
• The End of Time

Torchwood Edit

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

Directed Edit

Animations Edit

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

Video Games Edit

The Adventure Games Edit

• City of the Daleks (with Charles Cecil)
• Blood of the Cybermen (with Charles Cecil)
• TARDIS
• Shadows of the Vashta Nerada
• The Gunpowder Plot

Audio Edit

Doctor Who Main Range Edit

• 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 Edit

• Love and War

Short Trips Edit

• Erasure

Bernice Summerfield Edit

• 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 Edit

• 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 Edit

• 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 Edit

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

I, Davros Edit

• Innocence
• Purity
• Corruption
• Guilt

Doctor Who Unbound Edit

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

Actor Edit

Audio Edit

Doctor Who Main Range Edit

• 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 Edit

• 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 Edit

• Annihilation - Hollis

I, Davros Edit

• Purity - Thal officer

External links Edit

• 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)

Footnotes Edit