Philip Hinchcliffe

Philip Hinchcliffe
Birth date:	1 October 1944
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Producer, Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1974-1977, 2014, 2016-17, 2021
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Philip Hinchcliffe (born 1 October 1944) was producer of Doctor Who from 1974 to 1977. He served as the producer for Tom Baker's first three seasons as the Fourth Doctor. He also novelised three stories for Target Books.

On the DVD commentary for The Robots of Death, Hinchcliffe recounts that one of the perks he had as producer was picking out which coat Tom Baker would wear in each story.

Hinchcliffe had a young girl living next door who was a fan of the show, and once asked her which of the characters the girl identified with the most. He was surprised when she answered "the Doctor" instead of "Sarah Jane". This made him decide that the next female companion should be more proactive and action orientated, resulting in the creation of Leela.

He appeared on-camera only once in the series, as one of the faces that appears in the Doctor's mindbending battle with Morbius. For this appearance, he wore a Cavalier's outfit from BBC stock. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)

Since October 2018, he is the only surviving producer of the classic series, following the death of Derrick Sherwin that month.

His daughter, Celina Hinchcliffe, interviewed him on the documentary Life After Who: Philip Hinchcliffe.

Producer Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• The Ark in Space
• The Sontaran Experiment
• Genesis of the Daleks
• Revenge of the Cybermen
• Terror of the Zygons
• Planet of Evil
• Pyramids of Mars
• The Android Invasion
• The Brain of Morbius
• The Seeds of Doom
• The Masque of Mandragora
• The Hand of Fear
• The Deadly Assassin
• The Face of Evil
• The Robots of Death
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Writer Credits

Novels

Target novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus
• Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom
• Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora

Audio

The Lost Stories

• The Valley of Death

Philip Hinchcliffe Presents

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

Miscellaneous

Documentary

• Are Friends Electric?
• A New Frontier
• Like Nothing on Earth
• Genesis of a Classic
• Remembering Douglas Camfield
• Scotch Mist in Sussex
• A Darker Side
• Osirian Gothic
• Serial Thrillers
• The Village that Came to Life
• Life After Who: Philip Hinchcliffe
• Into the Wild
• Getting a Head
• Podshock
• The Secret of the Labyrinth
• Changing Time
• Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen
• The Matrix Revisited
• The Sandmine Murders
• Behind the Sofa
• The Last Hurrah
• Whose Doctor Who
• Whose Doctor Who Revisited
• The Foe from the Future
• Darkness & Light
• Terror Nation
• The Dalek Tapes

to be completed

Audio Commentaries

• The Robots of Death
• The Ark in Space
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Pyramids of Mars
• The Hand of Fear
• The Sontaran Experiment
• Planet of Evil
• The Brain of Morbius
• The Deadly Assassin
• The Masque of Mandragora
• Revenge of the Cybermen
• The Seeds of Doom
• The Android Invasion
• The Face of Evil
• Terror of the Zygons

External links

• Philip Hinchcliffe at the Internet Movie Database