Philip Hinchcliffe

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Philip Hinchcliffe

Production 81 October 1, 1944

Dewsbury, West Yorkshire

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…

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who

7.9 1963 TV Show
Total Eclipse

Total Eclipse

6.4 1995 Movie
Screen Two

Screen Two

7.1 1985 TV Show
Taggart

Taggart

6.4 1983 TV Show
Rebus

Rebus

6.9 2000 TV Show
An Awfully Big Adventure

An Awfully Big Adventure

6.5 1995 Movie
Target

Target

7.0 1977 TV Show
Private Schulz

Private Schulz

5.3 1981 TV Show
Forgive and Forget

Forgive and Forget

5.5 2000 Movie
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

8.9 1975 Movie
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018 TV Show
The Charmer

The Charmer

4.2 1987 TV Show

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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).

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter

    Movie Self

  2. 2024
    Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams

    Movie Self

  3. 2021
    Philip Hinchcliffe: Uncut

    Movie Himself

  4. 2020
    Behind the Sofa - Season 14

    Movie

  5. 2020
    Whose Doctor Who: Revisited

    Movie Self

  6. 2018
    Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

    TV show Self

  7. 2013
    Scotch Mist in Sussex

    Movie

  8. 2013
    Remembering Douglas Camfield

    Movie

  9. 2012
    The Sandmine Murders

    Movie

  10. 2012
    Into the Wild: The Making of The Face of Evil

    Movie

  11. 2010
    Podshock

    Movie

  12. 2010
    The Foe from the Future

    Movie

  13. 2010
    The Tin Men and the Witch

    Movie

  14. 2007
    Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who

    Movie Self

  15. 2007
    A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil

    Movie

  16. 2007
    Are Friends Electric?

    Movie

More credits
  1. 2006
    Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

    Movie

  2. 2006
    The Dalek Tapes

    Movie Self

  3. 2004
    Serial Thrillers

    Movie

  4. 2003
    The Story of Doctor Who

    Movie

  5. 2001
    Take Me

    TV show Executive Producer

  6. 2000
    Forgive and Forget

    Movie Executive Producer

  7. 2000
    Rebus

    TV show Executive Producer

  8. 2000
    The Last Musketeer

    Movie Executive Producer

  9. 1998
    Seesaw

    TV show Executive Producer

  10. 1995
    Total Eclipse

    Movie Co-Producer

  11. 1995
    The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

    Movie

  12. 1995
    An Awfully Big Adventure

    Movie Producer

  13. 1995
    The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

    Movie

  14. 1994
    Downwardly Mobile

    TV show Producer

  15. 1993
    30 Years in the TARDIS

    Movie Himself

  16. 1992
    Friday on My Mind

    TV show Producer

  17. 1991
    The Gravy Train Goes East

    TV show Producer

  18. 1990
    The Gravy Train

    TV show Producer

  19. 1989
    And a Nightingale Sang

    Movie Producer

  20. 1989
    Virtuoso

    Movie Producer

  21. 1987
    The Charmer

    TV show Producer

  22. 1987
    Bust

    TV show Writer

  23. 1985
    Knockback: 2

    Movie Producer

  24. 1985
    Knockback: 1

    Movie Producer