Ken Bentley

Ken Bentley
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Director, Writer, Script Editor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2008-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Highlander, Sherlock Holmes, Blake's 7, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Time Machine, Callan, Transference
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Ken Bentley is the director of several Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories. He is the sole director of the Doctor Who audio spin-off Counter-Measures.

He revealed in BFX: The Abandoned that he's OCPD, which affects his attention to detail and level of flexibility in his work for Big Finish.

Director Credits

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Death Collectors / Spider's Shadow
• Kingdom of Silver / Keepsake (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Forty-Five
  • False Gods
  • Order of Simplicity
  • Casualties of War
  • The Word Lord
• Enemy of the Daleks
• The Angel of Scutari
• Project: Destiny
• A Death in the Family
• Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
• The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories
  • The Demons of Red Lodge
  • The Entropy Composition
  • Doing Time
  • Special Features
• Heroes of Sontar
• Kiss of Death
• Rat Trap
• Recorded Time and Other Stories
  • Recorded Time
  • Paradoxicide
  • A Most Excellent Match
  • Question Marks
• The Doomsday Quatrain
• House of Blue Fire
• The Jupiter Conjunction
• The Butcher of Brisbane
• Protect and Survive
• Black and White
• Gods and Monsters
• The Burning Prince
• The Acheron Pulse
• The Shadow Heart
• Eldrad Must Die!
• The Lady of Mercia
• Prisoners of Fate
• Persuasion
• Starlight Robbery
• Daleks Among Us
• 1963: The Assassination Games
• Afterlife
• Moonflesh
• Tomb Ship
• Masquerade
• Revenge of the Swarm
• Mask of Tragedy
• Signs and Wonders
• The Widow's Assassin
• The Rani Elite
• Mistfall
• Equilibrium
• The Entropy Plague
• Last of the Cybermen
• We Are The Daleks
• Terror of the Sontarans
• Criss-Cross
• Planet of the Rani
• You Are the Doctor and Other Stories
  • You Are the Doctor
  • Come Die with Me
  • The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel
  • Dead to the World
• Aquitaine
• A Life of Crime
• Fiesta of the Damned
• Maker of Demons
• Alien Heart / Dalek Soul
• Vortex Ice / Cortex Fire
• Shadow Planet / World Apart
• The High Price of Parking
• The Blood Furnace
• The Silurian Candidate
• Devil in the Mist
• Black Thursday / Power Game
• The Kamelion Empire
• Harry Houdini's War
• Dark Universe
• Shadow of the Daleks 1
  • Aimed at the Body
  • Lightspeed
  • The Bookshop at the End of the World
  • Interlude
• Shadow of the Daleks 2
  • Echo Chamber
  • Towards Zero
  • Castle Hydra
  • Effect and Cause
• The Blazing Hour
• The End of the Beginning

Special Releases

• The Four Doctors (with Nicholas Briggs)
• The Five Companions
• Voyage to Venus
• Voyage to the New World
• The Worlds of Doctor Who
  • The Reesinger Process
  • The Screaming Skull
  • Second Sight
• The Legacy of Time
  • Lies in Ruins
  • The Split Infinitive
  • The Sacrifice of Jo Grant
  • Relative Time
  • Collision Course
• Masterful
  • Masterful (with Jason Haigh-Ellery and Scott Handcock)

The Lost Stories

• Leviathan
• Thin Ice
• Crime of the Century
• Animal
• Earth Aid
• The Elite
• Hexagora
• The Children of Seth
• The Foe from the Future
• The Valley of Death
• The Guardians of Prophecy
• Power Play
• The First Sontarans
• The Dark Planet
• The Mega
• Nightmare Country

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Renaissance Man
• The Wrath of the Iceni
• Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure
• The Auntie Matter
• The Justice of Jalxar
• Phantoms of the Deep
• Legacy of Death
• Gallery of Ghouls
• The Skin of the Sleek / The Thief Who Stole Time
• The Planet of Witches
• The Day of the Comet
• The Dreams of Avarice
• The Hellwood Inheritance - with Jamie Anderson
• The Memory Thieves - with Jamie Anderson
• The Remains of Kaerula - director, with Jamie Anderson

Philip Hinchcliffe Presents

• Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
  • The Ghosts of Gralstead
  • The Devil's Armada
• The Genesis Chamber
• The Helm of Awe
• The God of Phantoms

The Fifth Doctor Adventures

• The Fifth Doctor Box Set
  • Psychodrome
  • Iterations of I
• Forty: Volume 1
  • Secrets of Telos
  • God of War
• Forty: Volume 2
  • The Auton Infinity
• Conflicts of Interest
  • Friendly Fire
  • The Edge of the War
• In the Night
  • Pursuit of the Nightjar
  • Resistor
• The Dream Team
  • The Merfolk Murders
  • Dream Team
• The Great Beyond
• Hooklight

The Sixth Doctor Adventures

• The Eleven
  • One for All
  • The Murder of Oliver Akkron
  • Elevation

Charlotte Pollard: The Further Adventuress

• The Mummy Speaks!
• Eclipse
• The Slaying of the Writhing Mass
• Heart of Orion

Dark Eyes

• Dark Eyes 3
  • The Death of Hope
  • The Reviled
  • Masterplan
  • Rule of the Eminence
• Dark Eyes 4
  • A Life in the Day
  • The Monster of Montmartre
  • Master of the Daleks
  • Eye of Darkness

Doom Coalition

• Doom Coalition 1
  • The Eleven
  • The Red Lady
  • The Galileo Trap
  • The Satanic Mill
• Doom Coalition 2
  • Beachhead
  • Scenes From Her Life
  • The Gift
  • The Sonomancer
• Doom Coalition 3
  • Absent Friends
  • The Eighth Piece
  • The Doomsday Chronometer
  • The Crucible of Souls
• Doom Coalition 4
  • Ship in a Bottle
  • Songs of Love
  • The Side of the Angels
  • Stop the Clock

Ravenous

• Ravenous 1
  • Their Finest Hour
  • How to Make a Killing in Time Travel
  • World of Damnation / Sweet Salvation
• Ravenous 2
  • Escape from Kaldor
  • Better Watch Out / Fairytale of Salzberg
  • Seizure
• Ravenous 3
  • Deeptime Frontier
  • Companion Piece
  • L.E.G.E.N.D.
  • The Odds Against
• Ravenous 4
  • Whisper
  • Planet of Dust
  • Day of the Master

Stranded

• Stranded 1
  • Lost Property
  • Wild Animals
  • Must-See TV
  • Divine Intervention
• Stranded 2
  • Dead Time
  • UNIT Dating
  • Baker Street Irregulars
  • The Long Way Round
• Stranded 3
  • Patience
  • Twisted Folklore
  • Snow
  • What Just Happened?
• Stranded 4
  • Crossed Lines
  • Get Andy
  • The Keys of Baker Street
  • Best Year Ever

The Eighth Doctor Adventures

• What Lies Inside?
  • Paradox of the Daleks
  • The Dalby Spook
• Connections
  • Here Lies Drax
  • The Love Vampires
  • Albie's Angels
• Audacity
  • The Devouring
  • The Great Cyber-War
• In the Bleak Midwinter
  • Twenty-Four Doors in December
  • The Empty Man
  • Winter of the Demon
• Echoes
  • Birdsong
  • Lost Hearts
  • Slow Beasts
• Deadly Strangers
  • Puccini and the Doctor
  • Women's Day Off
  • The Gloaming

The Eighth Doctor: The Time War

• The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume One
  • The Starship of Theseus
  • Echoes of War
  • The Conscript
  • One Life
• The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Two
  • The Lords of Terror
  • Planet of the Ogrons
  • In the Garden of Death
  • Jonah
• The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Three
  • State of Bliss
  • The Famished Lands
  • Fugitive in Time
  • The War Valeyard
• Cass
  • Meanwhile, Elsewhere
  • Vespertine
  • Previously, Next Time
• Reflections
  • Nowhere, Never
  • The Road Untravelled
  • Cass-cade
  • Borrow or Rob
• Pursuit
  • Spoil of War
  • The Tale of Alex
  • See-Saw
  • The First Forest

The Ninth Doctor Adventures

• Hidden Depths
  • The Seas of Titan
  • Lay Down Your Arms
  • Flatpack

The Tenth Doctor Adventures

• Volume Three
  • No Place
  • One Mile Down
  • The Creeping Death

Out of Time

• The Gates of Hell
• Wink

Dalek Universe

• Dalek Universe 1
  • Buying Time / The Wrong Woman
  • The House of Kingdom
• Dalek Universe 2
  • Cycle of Destruction
  • The Trojan Dalek
  • The Lost
• Dalek Universe 3
  • The First Son
  • The Dalek Defence / The Triumph of Davros

The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures

• Vampire Weekend

Sontarans vs Rutans

• The Battle of Giant's Causeway
• The Children of the Future
• Born to Die
• In Name Only

Novel Adaptations

• The Well-Mannered War
• Damaged Goods
• Original Sin

Once and Future

• The Artist at the End of Time
• The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50
• The Union
• Coda - The Final Act

The First Doctor Adventures

• The Phoenicians
• Tick-Tock World
• Return to Skaro
• Last of the Romanovs
• For the Glory of Earth
• The Hollow Crown

The War Doctor Rises

• Fallen Heroes

The Early Adventures

• Domain of the Voord
• The Doctor's Tale
• An Ordinary Life
• The Age of Endurance
• The Sontarans

The Companion Chronicles

• The Darkening Eye
• The Anachronauts
• The Rings of Ikiria
• Project: Nirvana
• The Scorchies
• Mastermind

Short Trips

• Short Trips - Volume I (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Short Trips - Volume II (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Short Trips - Volume III (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Short Trips - Volume IV (with Nicholas Briggs)
• Only Connect

The Paternoster Gang

• Heritage 1
  • The Cars That Ate London
  • A Photograph to Remember
  • The Ghosts of Greenwich
• Heritage 2
  • Dining with Death
  • The Screaming Ceiling
  • Spring-Heeled Jack
• Heritage 3
  • Family Matters
  • Whatever Remains
  • Truth and Bone
• Heritage 4
  • Merry Christmas, Mr Jago
  • The Ghost Writers
  • Rulers of Earth
• Rogues Gallery
  • The Ghost and the Potato Man
  • Symmetry of Death
  • Till Death Us Do Part
• The Casebook of Paternoster Row
  • Anne of a Thousand Light Years
  • Pater Noster
  • The Gentlemen Thieves
• No Place Like Home
  • Doppelgängers
  • Jellyfish!
  • The Houseguest
• Last Stand
  • I Married a Zygon
  • A Passion for Fashion
  • The Final Poblom

Counter-Measures

• Series 1
  • Threshold
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • The Pelage Project
  • State of Emergency
• Series 2
  • Manhunt
  • The Fifth Citadel
  • Peshka
  • Sins of the Fathers
• Series 3
  • Changing of the Guard
  • The Concrete Cage
  • The Forgotten Village
  • Unto the Breach
• Series 4
  • New Horizons
  • The Keep
  • Rise and Shine
  • Clean Sweep

The New Counter-Measures

• Who Killed Toby Kinsella? / The Dead Don't Rise
• Series One
  • Nothing to See Here
  • Troubled Waters
  • The Phoenix Strain
  • A Gamble With Time
• Series Two
  • The Splintered Man
  • The Ship of the Sleepwalkers
  • My Enemy's Enemy
  • Time of the Intelligence
• The Hollow King
• The Movellan Manoeuvre
• The Dalek Gambit

UNIT: The New Series

• Extinction
  • Vanguard
  • Earthfall
  • Bridgehead
  • Armageddon
• Shutdown
  • Power Cell
  • Death in Geneva
  • The Battle of the Tower
  • Ice Station Alpha
• Silenced
  • House of Silents
  • Square One
  • Silent Majority
  • In Memory Alone
• Assembled
  • Call to Arms
  • Tidal Wave
  • Retrieval
  • United
• Encounters
  • The Dalek Transaction
  • Invocation
  • The Sontaran Project
  • False Negative
• Cyber-Reality
  • Game Theory
  • Telepresense
  • Code Silver
  • Master of Worlds
• Revisitations
  • Hosts of the Wirrn
  • Breach of Trust
  • Open the Box
• Incursions
  • This Sleep of Death
  • Tempest
  • The Power of River Song

UNIT: Nemesis

• Between Two Worlds
  • The Enemy Beyond
  • Fire and Ice
  • Eleven's Eleven
  • The Curator's Gambit
• Agents of the Vulpreen
  • The Man from Gallifrey
  • Power of the Dominators
  • The War Factory
  • Ten Minutes in Hell
• Objective: Earth
  • The Vulpreen Encounter
  • By Jacqui McGee
  • Axos Unleashed
  • Time of the Vulpreen
• Masters of Time
  • One Way or Another
  • Traitors' Gate
  • The Destiny Labyrinth
  • True Nemesis

Missy

• Series One
  • A Spoonful of Mayhem
  • Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated
  • The Broken Clock
  • The Belly of the Beast
• Series Two
  • The Lumiat (with Sam Clemens)
  • Brimstone and Terror (with Sam Clemens)
  • Treason and Plot (with Sam Clemens)
  • Too Many Masters (with Sam Clemens)
• Missy and the Monk
  • Body and Soulless
  • War Seed
  • Two Monks, One Mistress
• Bad Influence
  • Missy and the Time Assassin
  • Bad Apple Brigade
  • The Baron Robbers

The Diary of River Song

• Series One
  • The Boundless Sea
  • I Went to a Marvellous Party
  • Signs
  • The Rulers of the Universe
• Series Two
  • The Unknown
  • Five Twenty-Nine
  • World Enough and Time
  • The Eye of the Storm
• Series Three
  • The Lady in the Lake
  • A Requiem for the Doctor
  • My Dinner with Andrew
  • The Furies
• Series Four
  • Time in a Bottle
  • Kings of Infinite Space
  • Whodunnit?
  • Someone I Once Knew
• Series Five
  • The Bekdel Test
  • Animal Instinct
  • The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (with Jason Haigh-Ellery)
  • Concealed Weapon
• Series Six
  • An Unearthly Woman
  • The Web of Time
  • Peepshow
  • The Talents of Greel
• Series Seven
  • Colony of Strangers
  • Abbey of Heretics
  • Barrister to the Stars
  • Carnival of Angels
• Series Eight
  • Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow
  • A Brave New World
  • A Forever Home
  • Queen of the Mechonoids
• New Recruit
  • The Blood Woods
  • Terror of the Suburbs
  • Never Alone
  • Rivers of Light
• Two Rivers and a Firewall
  • The Two Rivers
  • Beauty on the Inside
  • Black Friday
  • Firewall
• Friend of the Family

The Death and Life of River Song

• Last Words
• Ace and Tegan
  • Castaways
  • Driftwood
  • Dead Rising
  • The End is the Beginning is the End

The Robots

• The Robots: Volume One
  • The Robots of Life
  • The Sentient
  • Love Me Not
• The Robots: Volume Two
  • The Robots of War
  • Toos and Poul
  • Do No Harm
• The Robots: Volume Three
  • Circuit Breaker
• The Robots: Volume Four
  • Closed Loop
  • Off Grid
  • The Janus Deception
• The Robots: Volume Five
  • The Enhancement
  • Machines Like Us
  • Kaldor Nights
• The Robots: Volume Six
  • Force of Nature
  • Face to Face
  • The Final Hour

The Churchill Years

• Volume One
  • The Oncoming Storm
  • Hounded
  • Living History
  • The Chartwell Metamorphosis
• Volume Two
  • Young Winston
  • Human Conflict
  • I Was Churchill's Double
  • Churchill Victorious

Vienna

• The Memory Box
• Series One
  • Dead Drop
  • Bad Faith
  • Deathworld

Actor Credits

The Companion Chronicles

• Project: Nirvana - Mark Brennon

Writer Credits

The War Doctor

• Eye of Harmony

The Paternoster Gang

• Doppelgängers

Counter-Measures

• The Forgotten Village
• The Keep

The New Counter-Measures

• The Dead Don't Rise

The Churchill Years

• The Chartwell Metamorphosis