Philip Hinchcliffe

Philip Michael Hinchcliffe (born 1 October 1944) is a retired English television producer, screenwriter and script editor. After graduating from Cambridge University, he began his career as a writer and script editor at Associated Television before joining the BBC to produce Doctor Who in one of its most popular eras from 1974 to 1977. Following Doctor Who, Hinchcliffe remained with the BBC as a producer for several years, working on series such as Private Schulz (1981), before launching a freelance career in the mid-1980s, which included making Bust and The Charmer (both 1987) for London Weekend Television. He finished his career as an executive producer for Scottish Television, with his final credit on Take Me (2001).

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30 Years in the TARDIS

A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material.

Release Date1993-11-29

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Vote Count4

Philip Hinchcliffe: Uncut

Bill Baggs interviewed Hinchcliffe in nineties for the documentary 30 Years of Time Travel & Beyond. Now for the first time the entire interview will be released uncut.

Release Date2021-06-22

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Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

Mad scientist Mehendri Solon is building a body from spare parts to house the disembodied brain of the evil Time Lord Morbius. He fancies the Doctor's head as the final piece...

Release Date1976-01-24

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JobProducer

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Vote Count7

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.

Release Date2018-07-02

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Episode Count6

The Dalek Tapes

A look at the appearances of the Daleks and Davros in the classic Doctor Who era.

Release Date2006-04-10

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Vote Count1

Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who

A documentary about the writer Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks.

Release Date2007-11-06

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Whose Doctor Who: Revisited

Toby Hadoke meets the producers and grown-up stars of the first ever Doctor Who documentary.

Release Date2020-04-20

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Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter

In 1974, Ian Marter was cast as Harry Sullivan, opposite Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen, in a new era of Doctor Who. Marter was meant to be the show’s action man, but just months prior to joining, his erratic health nearly caused his death. This new feature-length documentary explores in intimate detail Marter’s turbulent, enigmatic and brilliant life.

Release Date2025-09-20

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Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams

Family and colleagues remember the Doctor Who producer. In 1977, Birkenhead-born first-time producer Graham Williams took over one of the BBC’s most famous shows, Doctor Who. His turbulent three years in the role saw clashes with star Tom Baker, budgetary nightmares and catastrophic industrial action – but also the highest viewing figures the programme has ever achieved. Graham died in 1990, aged just 45, leaving behind a wife and three young children. In this intimate new film, Graham’s family, friends and colleagues look back on a life of darkness and light.

Release Date2024-03-18

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Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Release Date1963-11-23

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JobProducer

Episode Count72

Vote Count705

Target

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

Release Date1977-09-09

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JobProducer

Episode Count17

Vote Count4

Total Eclipse

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

Release Date1995-11-03

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Vote Count561

Private Schulz

Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett. Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.

Release Date1981-05-06

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JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count6

Nancy Astor

Nancy Astor was the American-born socialite and politician who became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons. This miniseries produced for BBC2 follows her journey from her early life in Virginia to her political career in Britain, including her marriage to Waldorf Astor and her struggles and triumphs as a Member of Parliament.

Release Date1982-02-10

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JobProducer

Episode Count9

Vote Count3

Strangers and Brothers

As World War II looms in Europe, an ambitious young English lawyer embarks on his tempestuous career, and even stormier romantic life. Based on the novel series of the same name by C.P. Snow.

Release Date1984-01-11

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JobProducer

Episode Count13

Vote Count4

Bust

Unsuccessful businessman, Neil Walsh, tries to rebuild his life after being made bankrupt.

Release Date1987-09-01

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Take Me

Take Me is the title of a 2001 British television drama miniseries on ITV, starring Robson Green and Beth Goddard. Take Me was produced by STV Productions and Coastal. It was filmed between October and December 2000 and first broadcast in the UK on 5 August 2001. Alex Pillai was the programmes' director.

Release Date2001-08-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

The Gravy Train Goes East

A fictitious Balkan state adaps to life after Communism.

Release Date1991-10-28

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JobProducer

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Friday on My Mind

Three-part drama about a wife coming to terms with the death of her pilot husband in a flying accident.

Release Date1992-05-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count3

Vote Count4

The Jensen Code

16-year-old Terry Connor uncovers a secret government plot involving mind control and espionage at a Ministry of Defence facility near his Outward Bound camp.

Release Date1973-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Episode Count13

Vote Count3

An Awfully Big Adventure

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.

Release Date1995-05-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count70

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure yet — to prevent the creation of the Daleks.

Release Date1975-04-12

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JobProducer

Vote Count17

And a Nightingale Sang

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.

Release Date1989-04-17

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JobProducer

Vote Count5

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...

Release Date1976-10-23

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JobProducer

Vote Count8

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

When the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry arrive in Scotland, having received an urgent request for assistance from the Brigadier, they discover that the mysterious force which has destroyed three oil rigs has left giant teeth marks on the wreckage. The mystery deepens, leading them to the shores of Loch Ness where they find that the legendary monster really does exist – and is the murderous tool of the Zygons, aliens intent on overpowering the planet. The Doctor, his companions and UNIT must find a way to defeat the deadly Loch Ness Monster and its controllers, but the Zygons have the terrifying power to change shape. The Doctor's life has never been in more danger, as the line between allies and enemies is tested to the very limit...

Release Date1975-09-20

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JobProducer

Vote Count9

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

When scientists in the Antarctic uncover a mysterious seed pod, the Doctor is called in to investigate. He soon realises it is extraterrestrial and extremely dangerous. At the same time, however, ruthless millionaire plant-lover Harrison Chase has learned of the find and decides he must have the pod for his collection of rare and beautiful flora. Meanwhile the pod itself harbours intelligent life with sinister plans of its own...

Release Date1976-01-31

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JobProducer

Vote Count4

Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

In the distant future, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find a space station preserving the future of mankind. But the insect Wirrn have got there first...

Release Date1975-02-15

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JobProducer

Vote Count14

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and woods stalked by white-clad figures.

Release Date1975-11-22

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JobProducer

Vote Count3

Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

Picking up a distress call from the edge of the known universe, the Doctor and Sarah Jane find themselves on Zeta Minor where a geological team has run afoul of some strange goings on...

Release Date1975-10-18

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Vote Count7

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt, has been replaced by a sinister Egyptian. Cloth-wrapped Mummies roam the grounds, killing people. Beneath a pyramid, the last of the Osirans — Sutekh the Destroyer — waits to be freed, to at long last bring his gift of death to all who live.

Release Date1975-11-15

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JobProducer

Vote Count10

Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Death stalks the fogbound streets of Victorian London: young women are going missing, horribly mutilated bodies are found floating in the Thames and criminal gangs terrorize the innocent. At the heart of this tangled web sits the mysterious Li H'sen Chang, sorcerer and hypnotist, and his grotesque sidekick Mister Sin. The Doctor dons deerstalker hat and cape to seek out the sinister force lurking in the shadows of the metropolis, for the Talons of Weng-Chiang are reaching out to shred the human race.

Release Date1977-04-02

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JobProducer

Vote Count10

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

Sontaran Field Major Styre is conducting experiments on the survivors of future Earth in preparation of a full-scale Sontaran invasion of the planet. Can the Doctor defeat Styre and save the world?

Release Date1975-03-01

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JobProducer

Vote Count13

Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

The Doctor arrives on a planet where two tribes, the savage Sevateem and the technically brilliant Tesh, are at war. He meets Leela, an exile from the Sevateem, and discovers that the tribes' god of evil is apparently himself...

Release Date1977-01-22

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JobProducer

Vote Count9

Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

Arriving on Space Station Nerva in its distant past, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find its crew threatened by a mysterious plague. Discovering that things are not as they seem, they uncover a Cyberman plot to destroy Voga, planet of gold.

Release Date1975-05-10

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JobProducer

Vote Count12

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

Summoned back to Gallifrey, the Doctor is framed for the assassination of the Time Lord President. To prove his innocence, he must stand for election himself, uncover the traitor in the Time Lord High Council, fight a hooded killer in a nightmare cyberspace world of his enemy's devising and battle against an old foe now out to destroy the Time Lords: The Master.

Release Date1976-11-20

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JobProducer

Vote Count10

Virtuoso

In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years later he suffers the onset of mental illness that threatens to destroy his playing, marriage and sanity.

Release Date1989-02-12

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JobProducer

Vote Count1

Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

The Doctor and Leela must catch a killer on a vast mining ship run by robots and humans.

Release Date1977-02-19

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JobProducer

Vote Count10

Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora

An alien intelligence hitches a ride onboard the TARDIS to 15th century Italy, where a deranged astrologer attempts to harness its power.

Release Date1976-09-25

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JobProducer

Vote Count6

Knockback: 1

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.

Release Date1985-01-27

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Vote Count1

Knockback: 2

Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.

Release Date1985-02-03

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JobProducer

Vote Count1

Scotch Mist in Sussex

Cast and crew look back at the making of Terror of the Zygons.

Release Date2013-09-30

Vote Count1

The Story of Doctor Who

Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series.

Release Date2003-12-30

Vote Count1

Whose Doctor Who

Melvyn Bragg presents this 1977 documentary about Doctor Who from BBC2's 'The Lively Arts' strand, featuring extensive behind-the-scenes coverage of the making of The Talons of Weng-Chiang and looking back at the history of the programme and its psychological impact on the viewers, particularly children.

Release Date1977-04-03

Vote Count2

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on our television screens, and the exploits of its various crews have enthralled audiences ever since. Here is the story of Britain's Number 1 Science Fiction programme told in order of the various actors who have played the Doctor.

Release Date1995-09-01

Vote Count2

The Sandmine Murders

Cast and crew look back on the filming of Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

Release Date2012-03-12

Vote Count1

Podshock

The cast and crew of The Seeds of Doom look back on the making of this story.

Release Date2010-10-25

The Foe from the Future

A look at the unmade story, The Foe from the Future, which formed the basis of The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Release Date2010-10-04

Vote Count1

Remembering Douglas Camfield

The life and work of respected director Douglas Camfield is remembered in this documentary.

Release Date2013-09-30

Vote Count1

Are Friends Electric?

This documentary examines Tom Baker's introduction as the Doctor and the making of his first story, Robot.

Release Date2007-06-04

A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil

A selection of key production personnel look at the making of Planet of Evil.

Release Date2007-10-15

Behind the Sofa - Season 14

New episodes with Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Philip Hinchcliffe, plus companions Sophie Aldred and Peter Purves.

Release Date2020-05-04

The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

Climb aboard the HMS Belfast and enter Pinewood Film Studios for a fascinating and humorous insight into the making of SHAKEDOWN — Return of the Sontarans. Includes all new interviews with the stars — Jan Chappell, Brian Croucher, Carole Ann Ford, Sophie Aldred, Rory O’Donnell, Toby Aspin and Tom Finnis — writer Terrance Dicks, director Kevin Davies, composer Mark Ayres and much more! PLUS Highlights from Dreamwatch 94'

Release Date1995-01-01

Into the Wild: The Making of The Face of Evil

A look at the making of The Face of Evil.

Release Date2012-03-05

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

A special 50-minute documentary that looks at the making of The Hand of Fear, and also examines the special relationship between the Doctor and his companion, Sarah Jane Smith.

Release Date2006-07-24

Vote Count1

The Tin Men and the Witch

The making of Revenge of the Cybermen, with director Michael E Briant, incoming producer Philip Hinchcliffe and outgoing producer Barry Letts.

Release Date2010-08-09

Serial Thrillers

In 2004 a documentary was commissioned by the BBC looking back at the Philip Hinchcliffe era of British Television Series Doctor Who and what made those years some of the most popular in the series history.

Release Date2004-03-01

Vote Count1