
Doctor Who has
been a national institution since it first transmitted in
1963. Those of us who knew and loved it until it ended
its "classic" run in 1989 lived in fear of parody and
ridicule in the wilderness years that followed. Not even
that nice Paul McGann could make it cool in 1996 - although
his arrival did allow us the first real possibility of a Doctor who
might actually get laid.
Steven Moffat
was to change all that. In March 1999,
all our Doctors came at once. He was too handsome, too sexy, too shy,
too kind, too brave and
far, far too silly all in one evening. And he was Joanna
Lumley. It was quite a night.
Not satisfied
with creating the 'dream team' Doctor, Moffat wrote the
award-winning double episode for the all new uber-cool
series in 2005, and finally got Doctor Ten a shag (or at the very least a really
serious dance) in 2006. Series 3 introduced The Weeping
Angels, gave us wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff, and put The
Moff in with a pretty good shot of winning his third Hugo in
a row.
2008 delivered
two BAFTA awards for
Blink,
and in May it was announced that Steven Moffat will be Lead
Writer and Executive Producer for Series 5 of Doctor Who.
Continuity
Errors, Decalog 3
The Curse
of Fatal Death, 12 March 1999, as part of Comic Relief,
BBC1
The Least
Important Man, Bernice Summerfield & the Dead Men
Diaries
The Empty
Child/The Doctor
Dances,
21-28 May 2005, BBC1
What I Did
On My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow, Doctor Who
Annual 2006
The Girl in
the Fireplace, 6 May 2006, BBC1
Corner of
the Eye, Doctor Who Storybook 2007
Blink,
9 June 2007, BBC1
Time Crash,
16 November 2007, as part of Children in Need, BBC1
Silence in
the Library/Forest of the Dead, 31 May & 7 June 2008, BBC1
Awards:
Golden Moment, 2005 BBC TV Moments Awards; Best Dramatic
Presentation Short Form, Hugo Awards 2006 & 2007; Best
Screenwriter,
BAFTA Cymru Awards 2008, Best Writer,
BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2008
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