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Gary Russell is a showrunner and producer of Doctor Who from Season 44 in 2007 to Season 48 in 2011. Prior to this he had written the Season 31 story Legacy and directed several stories.
Prior to Doctor Who
Gary Russell began his career as an actor. His screen credits include, the BBC adaptation of the E Nesbit Novel, The Phoenix And The Carpet A’s Cyril, ITV's adaptation of Enid Blyton's Famous Five Novels (as Dick), and the BBC's Look And Read School's Series, playing Lord Edward Dark in Dark Towers.
Work on Doctor Who
In 1992, Russell became the editor of Doctor Who Magazine. Later in 1994, he was approached by Colin Brake to write a story for Season 31 that would help the show compete with Star Trek. Russell then penned Legacy which saw the Doctor return to Peladon, which hadn't been seen since The Monster of Peladon twenty-one years earlier.
In 1995, Russell stepped down as editor for Doctor Who Magazine.
Russell played the character Captain Stride in the Season 33 story, The Time Ravagers.
Russell then went on to write the Ninth Doctor story The Scales of Injustice.
In 2005 he directed the Leftover Series 4 episode Mirror, Signal Manouver.
In 2007, Garry Russell took over as showrunner and Executive Producer after Tony Redston stepped down.
Russell directed several episodes for the Paterson Joseph era and served as an Executive Producer on Panopticon. He was also the Executive Producer for Doctor Who Vengeance and appeared in the movie as a Policeman.
Russell also appeared as two Policemen characters in the Season 46 story, Delayed Indefinately and the Season 47 story, The Great White Hurricane respectively.
In 2010 he served as an Executive Producer for Leftover: End of Days.
Russel stepped down as producer after Doctor Who: Endgame in 2012 but returned as an Executive Producer on Doctor Who: Genesis.
Between 2012-2013 he served as a Consulting Producer on the remaining three series' of Panopticon.
Personal Life
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Credits
Actor
Doctor Who
Movies
Writer
Doctor Who
Story Writer
Movies
Director
Doctor Who
Leftover
Producer
Doctor Who
- The Silurian Awakening
- The Empty Child
- Miasimia Goria
- You Can Only Time Travel Twice
- Wirrn Dawn
- Jubilee
- The Unicorn and the Wasp
- The Scream
- The Abbey of Felsecar
- The Death of Jensen
- Confess
- Hot Air
- Vengeance of the Nimon
- Storm Warning
- In Thy Image
- Burning Books
- Operation Salvation
- Cold Star
- The One Doctor
- Cannon Fodder
- The Whitechapel Murderer
- Inquisition
- The Façade
- Delayed Indefinitely
- The Impossible Planet
- Brave New Town
- The Fight for Survival
- The Eternity Trap
- Mad World
- Masters of All
- The Shakespeare Code
- The Camera Never Lies
- The Great White Hurricane
- Wirrn Isle
- The Book of Kells
- The Ties In Between Us
- Too Smart to Play
- The Harsh Light of Day
- The First Game
- Hark! The Weeping Angels Sing
- Checkmate
- Broken Shackles
- The Silver Turk
- The Phantom Doctor
- Now Those Days Are Gone
- Bigger on the Inside
- The Doctor With No Name
- The Man at the End of the Street
- Evil of the Gaians
Movies
Consulting Producer
Panopticon
- The Condemned
- The Eternal Unseen
- Useful Occupations and Deceptions
- Resurrected
- This We’ll Defend
- Folly and Shame
- Vengeance is Mine
- The Hal
- The Stale Alliance
- The Eye of the Storm
- Period of Readjustment
- The Heaven of Invention
- Winter of Discontent
- The Seal of Rassilon
- The Serpent’s Tooth
- Dagger of the Mind
- Vexterminate!
- If Not For Hope
- United We Stand
- An Eye for an Eye
- Home
- Unity
- Earth
- The Ultimatum
- The Values of Freedom
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Survivors
- Doctor
Executive Producer
Panopticon
- Period of Adjustment
- War is Only as Good as Your Leader
- Nature's Gift
- Gallifreyan Equity
- The Eternal Flame
- The Death of Peace
- The Birth of War
- Operation: Regeneration
- The Dice Has Been Cast
- In the Name of the Cause
- How Little Does Wisdom Rule the Universe?
- Adams and the Bannermen
- Vengeance
- Colour of Your Life
- Slipping Through My Fingers
- Torn
- When All is Said and Done
- Maybe It's Imaginary
- Only Teardrops
- Rapture
- Despite the Fear
- The Reasons and the Rhymes
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- The Rogue Factor
- Vexed
- The Rules of the Game
- Election Day
- All Tied Up
- C'est La Vie