Phil Ford
British television scriptwriter

Phil Ford

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British television scriptwriter
Gender:
Male
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United KingdomGreat Britain
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WriterScreenwriterScience fiction writer
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Film, TV, Stage & RadioLiterature
Birth:
1950(United Kingdom, United Kingdom)
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Phil Ford (born 1960) is a British television writer. He was head writer from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, broadcast in 2008, wrote "The Waters of Mars", one of the 2009 special episodes of Doctor Who, with Russell T Davies. and wrote the majority of the 2010s video game series Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.

In 2012, with Davies, he created Wizards vs Aliens which ran for three series.

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)
  • "Trap for a Rhino" (2005)
  • "Heist" (2005)
  • "The Achilles Messenger" (2005)
  • "Touch of the Reaper" (2005)
  • "Virus" (2005)
  • "Enigma" (2005)
  • "Best of Enemies" (2005)
  • "Contact" (2005)
  • "Proteus" (2005)
  • "Syrtis Major" (2005)
  • "Fallen Angels" (2005)
  • "Storm at the End of the World" (2005)
  • "Duel" (2005)
  • "Shapeshifter" (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
  • "Eye of the Gorgon" (2 parts, 2007)
  • "The Lost Boy" (2 parts, 2007)
  • "The Last Sontaran" (2 parts, 2008)
  • "The Day of the Clown" (2 parts, 2008)
  • "Enemy of the Bane" (2 parts, 2008)
  • "Prisoner of the Judoon" (2 parts, 2009)
  • "The Eternity Trap" (2 parts, 2009)
  • "Mona Lisa's Revenge" (2 parts, 2009)
  • "The Vault of Secrets" (2 parts, 2010)
  • "Sky" (2 parts, 2011)
  • "The Curse of Clyde Langer" (2 parts, 2011)
 CBBC
Torchwood
  • "Something Borrowed" (2008)
 BBC Three
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