Phil Ford (writer)

Phil Ford
OccupationScreenwriter, producer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1997–present
GenreDrama, science fiction

Phil Ford is a British television writer and producer. He is best known for his work on Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet and Doctor Who. He was head writer and co-producer of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures (2008–11),[1] co-writer of "The Waters of Mars" (2009) and “Into the Dalek” (2014) with Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, respectively,[2] and wrote the majority of the 2010s video game series Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. In 2023, his novelisation of The Waters of Mars was released as part of the revived Target Books series.[3]

In 2012, with Davies, he created Wizards vs Aliens, which ran for three series and gave him an executive producer credit.

He won a Hugo Award, a Writers' Guild Award and was four-times BAFTA nominated.

Selected filmography

Production Notes Broadcaster
Taggart
  • "Berserker" (1997)
 ITV
Coronation Street
  • 86 Episodes (1997–2002)
 ITV
Heartbeat
  • "Spellbound" (1998)
 ITV
Bad Girls
  • "Love Rivals" (1999)
  • "The Set-Up" (2000)
  • "Family Plan" (2000)
  • "The Chains of Freedom" (2001)
  • "Uninvited Guests" (2001)
  • "Cat and Mouse" (2001)
  • "Unholy Alliances" (2002)
  • "Pillow Talk" (2002)
  • Episode 5.03 (2003)
  • Episode 6.08 (2004)
  • Episode 6.12 (2004)
  • Episode 7.01 (2005)
  • Episode 7.04 (2005)
  • Episode 7.11 (2005)
  • Episode 8.04 (2006)
  • Episode 8.08 (2006)
  • Christmas Special (2006) (2011)
 ITV
The Bill
  • "Tolerance: Part 1" (2001)
  • "Tolerance: Part 2" (2001)
  • "Crush" (2001)
  • "Quinnan 1" (2002)
 ITV
Footballers' Wives
  • "All To Play For" (2002)
 ITV
New Captain Scarlet
  • "Instrument of Destruction: Part One" (2005)
  • "Instrument of Destruction: Part Two" (2005)
  • "Swarm" (2005)
  • "Rat Trap" (2005)
  • "The Homecoming" (2005)
  • "Mercury Falling" (2005)
  • "Chiller" (2005)
  • "Heist" (2005)
  • "The Achilles Messenger" (2005)
  • "Touch of the Reaper" (2005)
  • "Virus" (2005)
  • "Enigma" (2005)
  • "Contact" (2005)
  • "Proteus" (2005)
  • "Syrtis Major" (2005)
  • "Fallen Angels" (2005)
  • "Storm at the End of the World" (2005)
  • "Duel" (2005)
  • "Shape Shifter" (2005)
  • "Dominion" (2005)
  • "Grey Skulls" (2005)
 ITV
Bombshell
  • Various Episodes (2006)
 TV ONE
Waterloo Road
  • Episode 2.06 (2007)
  • Episode 2.12 (2007)
 BBC One
The Sarah Jane Adventures CBBC
Torchwood BBC Two
Doctor Who BBC One
Dreamland
  • All 6 Episodes (2009)
 CBBC
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
  • "City of the Daleks" (2010)
  • "Blood of the Cybermen" (2010)
  • "Shadows of the Vashta Nerada" (2010)
  • "The Gunpowder Plot" (2011)
 BBC Online
Wizards vs Aliens
  • "Dawn of the Nekross" (2 parts, 2012)
  • "Grazlax Attacks" (2 parts, 2012)
  • "The Last Day" (2 parts, 2012)
  • "100 Wizards" (2 parts, 2013)
  • "The Thirteenth Floor" (2 parts, 2013)
  • "Endless Night" (2 parts, 2013)
  • "The Secret Of Room 12" (2 parts, 2014)
  • "The Daughters of Stone" (2 parts, 2014)
  • "Twilight Falls" (2 parts, 2014)
 CBBC
Tales of the TARDIS
  • "Vengeance on Varos" (2023)
  • "The Three Doctors" (2023)
  • "The Time Meddler" (2023)
 BBC iPlayer

References

  1. ^ Doctor Who Magazine #393
  2. ^ Doctor Who Magazine #398
  3. ^ Cormack, Morgan. "Doctor Who Target books add 5 new novelisations for 2023". Retrieved 20 January 2023.