James Goss

James Goss (born 1 January 1974^[1]) started working for the official BBC website around the turn of the century. There he started commissioning a series of animated webcasts with audio tracks produced firstly by the BBC and subsequently Big Finish Productions. This led onto commissioning full animated serials like Scream of the Shalka and The Infinite Quest.

He was also the producer of the BBCi TARDIS Cam series.

Goss originally commissioned the animation for the missing episodes 1 and 4 of The Invasion purely as a BBC website exclusive but Dan Hall liked it so much he included it on the DVD release in 2006. At the time the animated episodes garnered much speculation from fans as to whether more missing episodes would be animated in the future, however there have only been a few sporadic releases in the years since. The new relationship with Dan Hall led Goss to be invited to contribute further to the DVD range and he produced a number of documentaries over the next five years.

At the same time Goss was developing himself as a freelance writer, he has written for both Torchwood and Doctor Who mainly for Big Finish. Other notable work of his includes novelising two of Douglas Adams' scripts for Doctor Who City of Death and The Pirate Planet. He is currently working for Big Finish on The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield series and especially dealing with everything Torchwood for them and contributing the odd Doctor Who story when he has time.

He wrote the anthology Now We Are Six Hundred. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

Writer Edit

Webcasts Edit

Doctor Who: Lockdown! Edit

• Doctors Assemble!

Novels Edit

BBC Books novelisations Edit

• City of Death
• The Pirate Planet
• Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
• Scratchman (with Tom Baker)

BBC New Series Adventures Edit

• Dead of Winter
• The Blood Cell
• Summer Falls (attributed to Amelia Williams)

BBC Torchwood novels Edit

• Almost Perfect
• Risk Assessment
• First Born

BBC Class novels Edit

• What She Does Next Will Astound You

Short stories Edit

Short Trips Edit

• Indian Summer (in Short Trips: Snapshots)
• Phoenix (in Short Trips: Indefinable Magic)

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who Edit

• The Room with All the Doors

The Legends of Ashildr Edit

• The Arabian Knightmare

The Missy Chronicles Edit

• Dismemberment

Bernice Summerfield Edit

• The Death of Hope (in In Time)

Torchwood Magazine Edit

• We All Go Through (with Steve Tribe)

Audio Edit

BBC Doctor Who audiobooks Edit

• Dead Air
• The Hounds of Artemis
• The Art of Death
• The Gods of Winter
• The Sins of Winter

BBC Torchwood audiobooks Edit

• Department X
• Ghost Train

BBC Torchwood radio dramas Edit

• Golden Age
• The House of the Dead

Doctor Who main range Edit

• Mask of Tragedy
• Ghost Walk

Doctor Who Special Releases Edit

• Lies in Ruins (in The Legacy of Time)

Fourth Doctor Adventures Edit

• The Silent Scream

Tenth Doctor Adventures Edit

• Death and the Queen
• No Place

Classic Doctors, New Monsters Edit

• Harvest of the Sycorax

Ninth Doctor Chronicles Edit

• Retail Therapy

Tenth Doctor Chronicles Edit

• Wild Pastures

Companion Chronicles Edit

• The Time Museum
• The Last Post
• The Scorchies

Short Trips Edit

• The Hesitation Deviation
• How to Win Planets and Influence People

The Diary of River Song Edit

• Signs
• World Enough and Time
• Colony of Strangers

The War Master Edit

• The Sky Man
• Call for the Dead
• The Glittering Prize

Bernice Summerfield audio series Edit

• The Winning Side
• The Lights of Skaro
• The Eye of Horus
• The Library in the Body
• Asking for a Friend
• The True Saviour of the Universe
• Ever After Happy

Counter-Measures Edit

• The Fifth Citadel

Gallifrey Edit

• Renaissance

Jago & Litefoot Edit

• The Night of 1000 Stars
• Encore of the Scorchies
• The Mourning After

Iris Wildthyme Edit

• Comeback of the Scorchies

Donna Noble: Kidnapped Edit

• The Sorcerer of Albion

Lady Christina Edit

• Skin Deep

Big Finish Torchwood Edit

• Fall to Earth
• Ghost Mission
• Corpse Day
• The Office of Never Was
• Goodbye Piccadilly
• Deadbeat Escape
• The Hope
• Smashed
• Fortitude

Big Finish Torchwood Special Releases Edit

• The Torchwood Archive

Aliens Among Us Edit

• Changes Everything
• Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy
• Herald of the Dawn

God Among Us Edit

• Future Pain
• Thoughts and Prayers

The Lives of Captain Jack Edit

• Wednesdays For Beginners
• One Enchanted Evening
• Piece of Mind
• Driving Miss Wells
• R&J

Acting roles Edit

The Lives of Captain Jack Edit

• Month 25 - Member of the Council

Producer Edit

Animation projects Edit

• Death Comes to Time
• Real Time
• Shada
• Scream of the Shalka
• The Invasion (animated episodes 1 & 4)
• The Infinite Quest

Documentaries Edit

• Flash Frames for The Invasion DVD
• Love Off-Air for The Invasion DVD
• All Aboard the Starliner for Full Circle DVD
• The Vampire Lovers for State of Decay DVD
• Lalla's Wardrobe for Warriors' Gate DVD
• Talking About Regeneration for The War Games DVD
• Defending the Museum for The Space Museum DVD
• The Thrill of The Chase for The Chase DVD
• Last Stop White City for The Chase DVD
• Cusick in Cardiff for The Chase DVD
• Daleks Beyond the Screen for The Chase DVD
• Daleks Conquer and Destroy for The Chase DVD
• The Curse of the Cybermen's Tomb for The Tomb of the Cybermen Special Edition DVD
• The Doctors Revisited
• Carry On Screaming for Scream of the Shalka DVD

External links Edit

• James Goss at the Internet Movie Database
• Skip's Acorn Treasury, Goss' blog
• Official Twitter account
• Interview with author James Goss - Voice Mag

Footnotes Edit