Julie Gardner has more above the line credits than any other woman in the history of the DWU franchise. She is second only to Russell T Davies for most hours of DWU entertainment produced, and only falls behind him because she wasn't involved in the final two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. She was RTD's most constant collaborator, and helped him launch not only Doctor Who in 2005, but also Torchwood and SJA.
She was the executive producer of Doctor Who as a consequence of being Head of Drama at BBC Wales, a title which held from before the start of production of Doctor Who until March 2009, when it was announced she was to join the staff of Los Angeles-based BBC Worldwide America as executive producer in charge of scripted projects.
Although always credited as executive producer, she did at least once serve as the de facto producer. On The End of Time, she was actually in charge of day-to-day production issues when the credited producer Tracie Simpson was seconded by Steven Moffat to begin work on series 5. In fact, Gardner had actually toyed with the notion of stepping down from her executive position to be the producer of all of the 2009 specials, but in the end she had to be contented with producing David Tennant's finalé. (DWMSE 25) As she said on the episode's web commentary, "It was the perfect end."
DWU credits[]
Gardner was a credited executive producer on all of the following episodes:
- 42
- Adam
- Adrift
- The Age of Steel
- Aliens of London
- Army of Ghosts
- Attack of the Graske
- Bad Wolf
- Blink
- The Blood Line
- Boom Town
- Captain Jack Harkness
- The Categories of Life
- 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
- Combat
- Countrycide
- Cyberwoman
- Dalek
- Daleks in Manhattan
- Day One
- A Day in the Death
- The Day of the Clown
- Dead Man Walking
- Dead of Night
- The Doctor Dances
- The Doctor's Daughter
- Doomsday
- The Empty Child
- End of Days
- The End of Time
- End of the Road
- The End of the World
- Enemy of the Bane
- Escape to LA
- The Eternity Trap
- 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
- Forest of the Dead
- Fragments
- From Out of the Rain
- The Gathering
- Ghost Machine
- The Gift
- The Girl in the Fireplace
- Greeks Bearing Gifts
- Gridlock
- Human Nature
- The Idiot's Lantern
- Immortal Sins
- The Impossible Planet
- Invasion of the Bane
- Journey's End
- Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- The Last Sontaran
- Last of the Time Lords
- The Lazarus Experiment
- The Long Game
- The Lost Boy
- Love & Monsters
- The Mad Woman in the Attic
- The Mark of the Berserker
- Meat
- The Middle Men
- Midnight
- Mona Lisa's Revenge
- New Earth
- The New World
- The Next Doctor
- Out of Time
- The Parting of the Ways
- Partners in Crime
- Planet of the Dead
- Planet of the Ood
- The Poison Sky
- Prisoner of the Judoon
- Random Shoes
- Rendition
- Reset
- Revenge of the Slitheen
- Rise of the Cybermen
- Rose
- The Runaway Bride
- The Satan Pit
- School Reunion
- Secrets of the Stars
- 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
- TDW 16
- The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
- They Keep Killing Suzie
- To the Last Man
- Tooth and Claw
- Turn Left
- The Unicorn and the Wasp
- The Unquiet Dead
- Utopia
- Voyage of the Damned
- Warriors of Kudlak
- The Waters of Mars
- The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
- Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
- World War Three
