Nicholas Briggs, right, in a scene from Myth Runner with Michael Wisher.

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Some of Briggs' earliest Doctor Who-related work was as host of Myth Makers, a series of made-for-video documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s by Reeltime Pictures in which Briggs interviews many of the actors and writers involved in the series. When Reeltime expanded into producing original dramas, Briggs wrote some stories and acted in others, beginning with War Time, the first unofficial Doctor Who spin-off, and Myth Runner, a parody of Blade Runner showcasing bloopers from the Myth Makers series built around a loose storyline featuring Briggs as a down on his luck private detective in the near future. Reeltime Pictures is a British multimedia film and video production company founded in 1984 by Keith Barnfather. ... Blade Runner is an influential 1982 cyberpunk, neo noir film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. ... A blooper usually describes a short sequence of a film or video production which contains a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. ... A private investigator, or PI, is a person who undertakes investigations. ...

In the late 1980s, Briggs also provided the voice of a future incarnation of the Doctor for a series of unofficial audio dramas by Audio Visuals (a forerunner of Big Finish Productions). This version of the Doctor also appeared in "Party Animals", an instalment of the Doctor Who comic published in Doctor Who Magazine issue 173, cover date 15 May 1991. Briggs also provided the model for the face of the supposed "Ninth Doctor" for Doctor Who Magazine in the late 1990s, when the magazine's comic strip ran a storyline in which the Eighth Doctor apparently regenerated, only for it to later be revealed that the whole thing had been a massive deception (see Shayde and Fey Truscott-Sade). Audio Visuals is an unlicensed Doctor Who fan audio series of the 1980s. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Shayde is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Fey Truscott-Sade, also known as Fey or Feyde, is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

He wrote and appeared in several made-for-video dramas by BBV, including the third of the Stranger stories, In Memory Alone opposite former Doctor Who stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. (In Memory Alone would be the last of the Stranger series to have any similarity to Doctor Who, which had inspired it.) He also wrote and appeared in a non-Stranger BBV production called The Airzone Solution. BBV is a video and audio production company specialising in science fiction drama, known for its links with the British science fiction television series Doctor Who (founder Bill Baggs is a fan, and BBV productions often feature characters and/or actors from the series). ... The Stranger was a series of direct-to-video science fiction dramas made by BBV and starring Colin Baker. ... Colin Baker (born London, June 8, 1943) is an English actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986. ... Nicola Bryant (publicity portrait). ... Nicola Bryant and Colin Baker in a scene from the BBV release The Airzone Solution. ...

Briggs co-wrote a Doctor Who book called The Dalek Survival Guide (ISBN 0-563-48600-7, published by BBC Books 2002). BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ...

When Doctor Who returned to television, Briggs provided the voices for several monsters, most notably the Daleks in the 2005 episodes Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, the Cybermen in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel (2006), and both Daleks and Cybermen in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday (also 2006). Briggs also voiced the Nestene Consciousness in the 2005 episode Rose, and recorded a voice for the Jagrafess in the 2005 episode The Long Game; however, this was not used in the final episode because it was too similar to the voice of the Nestene Consciousness. He also provided the voices for both the Daleks and the Judoon in the 2007 series. The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Dalek is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 30, 2005. ... Bad Wolf is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 11, 2005. ... The Parting of the Ways is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 18, 2005. ... The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... Rise of the Cybermen is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Age of Steel is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Army of Ghosts is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who which was first broadcast on 1 July 2006. ... Doomsday is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. ... Rose is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on 26 March 2005. ... This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Long Game is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on May 7, 2005. ... The Judoon are a fictional extraterrestrial race of humanoid mercenary police from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Briggs has directed many of the Big Finish Productions audio plays, and has provided Dalek, Cybermen, and other alien voices in several of those as well. He has also written and directed the Dalek Empire and Cyberman audio plays for Big Finish. In 2006, Briggs took over from Gary Russell as executive producer of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio range.^[1] Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... This is a list of audio plays based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who produced by Big Finish Productions. ... The Dalek city on Skaro, from The Daleks. ... The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... Gary Russell appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK) is a freelance writer and former child actor. ...

Briggs also directed the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy Nebulous, written by Graham Duff and starring Mark Gatiss. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Nebulous is a science fiction comedy that premiered on BBC Radio 4 and is produced independently by Baby Cow Productions. ... Graham Duff is a British writer and producer. ... Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966) is an English actor and writer. ...

Bibliography

Comics work includes

• Doctor Who (in Doctor Who Magazine #218-220, 1994)

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References

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External link

• Nicholas Briggs at the Internet Movie Database