James Goss

James Goss
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer, producer
Stories:	see credits
Main time period active:	2002-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Dark Shadows, The Confessions of Dorian Gray, Blake's 7
Twitter
IMDb profile

James Goss 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

Webcasts

Doctor Who: Lockdown!

• Doctors Assemble!

Daleks!

• The Archive of Islos
• The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy
• Planet of the Mechanoids

Novels

BBC Books novelisations

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

BBC New Series Adventures

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

BBC Torchwood novels

• Almost Perfect
• Risk Assessment
• First Born

BBC Class novels

• What She Does Next Will Astound You

Short stories

Short Trips

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

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who

• The Room with All the Doors

Time Lord Victorious

• The Dawn of the Kotturuh
• The Restoration Empire
• The Last Message
• What the TARDIS thought of “Time Lord Victorious“

The Legends of Ashildr

• The Arabian Knightmare

The Missy Chronicles

• Dismemberment

Bernice Summerfield

• The Death of Hope (in In Time)

Torchwood Magazine

• We All Go Through (with Steve Tribe)

Audio

BBC Doctor Who audiobooks

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

BBC Torchwood audiobooks

• Department X
• Ghost Train

BBC Torchwood radio dramas

• Golden Age
• The House of the Dead

Doctor Who main range

• Mask of Tragedy
• Ghost Walk

Doctor Who Special Releases

• Lies in Ruins (in The Legacy of Time)

Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Silent Scream

Tenth Doctor Adventures

• Death and the Queen
• No Place

The Tenth Doctor and River Song

• Expiry Dating

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

• Harvest of the Sycorax

Ninth Doctor Chronicles

• Retail Therapy

Tenth Doctor Chronicles

• Wild Pastures

Companion Chronicles

• The Time Museum
• The Last Post
• The Scorchies

Short Trips

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

The Diary of River Song

• Signs
• World Enough and Time
• Colony of Strangers

The War Master

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

Bernice Summerfield audio series

• 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
• Inertia

Counter-Measures

• The Fifth Citadel

Gallifrey

• Renaissance

Jago & Litefoot

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

Iris Wildthyme

• Comeback of the Scorchies

Donna Noble: Kidnapped

• The Sorcerer of Albion

Lady Christina

• Skin Deep

Big Finish Torchwood

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

Big Finish Torchwood Special Releases

• The Torchwood Archive

Torchwood Soho

• Parasite
  • The Man From Room 13
  • Meet Mr Lyme
  • The Mould
  • The Spread
  • The Dead Hand
  • The Liberty of Norton Folgate

Aliens Among Us

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

God Among Us

• Future Pain
• Thoughts and Prayers

The Lives of Captain Jack

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

Acting roles

The Lives of Captain Jack

• Month 25 - Member of the Council

Producer

Animation projects

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

Documentaries

• 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

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