Philip Hinchcliffe
Known for: Production
Born: October 1, 1944
Place of birth: 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 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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Filmography
45 movies · 11 TV shows, newest first
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Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter
2025
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Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
2024
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Philip Hinchcliffe: Uncut
2021
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Behind the Sofa - Season 14
2020
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Whose Doctor Who: Revisited
2020
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Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018
7.0
Scotch Mist in Sussex
2013
8.0
Remembering Douglas Camfield
2013
8.0
The Sandmine Murders
2012
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Into the Wild: The Making of The Face of Evil
2012
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Podshock
2010
8.0
The Foe from the Future
2010
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The Tin Men and the Witch
2010
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Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
2007
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A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil
2007
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Are Friends Electric?
2007
8.0
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2006
7.5
The Dalek Tapes
2006
8.0
Serial Thrillers
2004
8.0
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
8.5
Take Me
2001
6.4
Total Eclipse
1995
7.0
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
6.5
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
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The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995
7.9
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
4.3
Friday on My Mind
1992
8.0
The Gravy Train Goes East
1991
5.2
And a Nightingale Sang
1989
10.0
Virtuoso
1989
5.5
Bust
1987
9.0
Knockback: 2
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Knockback: 1
1985
7.0
Strangers and Brothers
1984
7.7
Nancy Astor
1982
5.3
Private Schulz
1981
7.0
Target
1977
2.0
Whose Doctor Who
1977
8.1
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
1977
7.9
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
1977
8.0
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
1977
8.5
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
1976
7.6
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
1976
6.6
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
1976
8.8
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
1976
8.0
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
1976
7.0
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
1975
8.6
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
1975
6.8
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
1975
8.1
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
1975
5.9
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
1975
8.9
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
1975
6.1
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
1975
7.6
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
1975
6.0
The Jensen Code
1973
7.9
Doctor Who
1963