Peter Anghelides is an author and dramatist most well known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who. Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1936. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor. It is also the title of a 1996 television movie featuring the same character. ...

Work

Peter's first published work was the popular short story Moving On in the third volume of the Virgin Decalog collections, which led to further short stories in the fourth collection and then in two of the BBC Short Trips collections that followed. In January 1998, his first novel Kursaal was published as part of BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series on books. Peter subsequently wrote two more novels for the range, Frontier Worlds in November 1999 and the controversial The Ancestor Cell in July 2000 (co-written with departing editor Stephen Cole). The Virgin Decalog books were collections of short stories published by Virgin Publishing based on the television series Doctor Who: they gained their name from the fact that each volume contained ten stories (although the last two collections both contained eleven). ... The BBC Short Trips books were collections of short stories published by BBC Books based on the television series Doctor Who. ... BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. ... The Ancestor Cell (ISBN 0563538090) is a novel by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, based on the science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Stephen Cole (born 1971) is an author of childrens books and science fiction, including many Doctor Who novels. ...

Peter also wrote several short stories for a variety of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips and Bernice Summerfield collections. This led, in November 2002, to the proiduction of his first audio adventure for Big Finish, the play Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre for the first season of their Sarah Jane Smith audio series. Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... The Big Finish Short Trips are a collection of short stories published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who, beginning with the collection Short Trips: Zodiac in December 2002. ... Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character originally created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishings range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. ... This is a list of audio plays based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who produced by Big Finish Productions. ... Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

His website contains lots of information about all of his work, including synopsies, proposals, sample chapters and reviews.

External links

• Author's homepage
• Outpost Gallifrey's Peter Anghelides page