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Phil Ford (writer)
Phil Ford is a British television writer and producer. He was head writer and co-producer from the second series of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', broadcast in 2008, co-wrote with Russell T Davies "The Waters of Mars", one of the 2009 special episodes of ''Doctor Who'',''Doctor Who Magazine'' #398 and wrote the majority of the 2010s video game series '' Doctor Who: The Adventure Games''. In 2012, with Davies, he created ''Wizards vs Aliens ''Wizards vs Aliens'' is a British science fantasy television programme produced by BBC Cymru Wales and FremantleMedia Enterprises for CBBC and created by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford. The series focuses on the exploits of 16-year-old wiz ...'', which ran for three series and gave him an executive producer credit. He won a Hugo Award, a Writers' Guild Award and was four-times BAFTA nominated. Selected filmography References External links *Episode 126 - Phil and Daninterview for Starburst magazine's podcast {{DEFAULTSORT:For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bombshell (TV Series)
''Bombshell'' is a British television military drama series, produced by Shed Productions, the company behind '' Bad Girls'', ''Footballers' Wives'', and '' Waterloo Road''. The series, originally commissioned by Shed Productions in early 2004, focuses on the day-to-day workload of officers and soldiers in the British Army, and was subsequently given the nickname ''Army Wives'' by the British press. The series was first teased by the creators in March 2002, and was described as "a focus on how the army is changing with the recruitment of more women and a more lenient attitude to homosexuality." The series was initially offered to the BBC, but the producers were unhappy with the rights deal initially offered by the channel. The series attracted a strong initial casting, with Zöe Lucker, Bertie Carvel and Rosie Marcel among the first cast members confirmed to star in the series. After filming completed, ITV announced that the series was scheduled to be aired in February 2005. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
''Sky'' is a two-part story of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' which was broadcast on CBBC on 3 and 4 October 2011. It is the first story of the fifth and final series. In this episode, Sinead Michael joins the main cast. Plot Part 1 A meteor crashes in a junk yard, revealing a metal man. At the same time, Sarah Jane discovers a baby on her doorstep who can create power surges. She and Rani travel to the site of the meteor crash—leaving the baby with Clyde—and are met by Professor Rivers, who investigates the site with them. They find a homeless man who saw the crash and describes the metal man, who they discover is heading to Bannerman Road. Meanwhile, an alien woman named Miss Myers appears at a nuclear power station and locates the power surge on Bannerman Road. She heads to Sarah Jane's garden where Clyde and the baby named Sky are being attacked by the metal man. Miss Myers saves Clyde and Sky and reveals that she is Sky's mother and an alien. However, Clyde does n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vault Of Secrets
''The Vault of Secrets'' is the second serial of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It first aired in two parts on CBBC on 18 and 19 October 2010. It features the return of Androvax, previously seen in the episode ''Prisoner of the Judoon'', and of the android servants of the Alliance of Shades, last seen in the Doctor Who special '' Dreamland''. Plot In 1972, ufologist Ocean Waters had her mind wiped by the robotic Men in Black, who gave her one of two activation discs to a hyperdimensional vault on Earth containing the last members of the Veil race, besides Androvax, in cryogenic sleep. In the present, Androvax, after being imprisoned by the Judoon, escapes and attempts to open the vault, hidden in an asylum. He fails after only obtaining one of the two required discs. Wounded by a venomous viper and chased by the Men in Black that guard the vault, he asks Sarah Jane for help rescuing his race. Tricking Sarah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Lisa's Revenge
''Mona Lisa's Revenge'' is the fifth serial of the third series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It first aired in two parts on CBBC on 12 and 13 November 2009. Plot Luke enters Clyde's painting for a competition and Clyde wins first prize. The prize is a trip for Clyde and his class to see the first showing of Leonardo da Vinci's ''Mona Lisa'' in Britain. Due to her proximity to her "brother", a painting known as the Abomination that was painted with the same kind of sentient paint in the same neighbourhood, Mona Lisa comes to life and steps out of her frame. She asks the curator Lionel Harding to find the Abomination, which is locked away in a box in the gallery's basement. Seeing the coverage of the supposed theft of the painting on television, Sarah Jane arrives at the gallery, encounters Mona Lisa and insists she release those transferred into paintings. Instead, Sarah Jane herself is trapped in a painting. The key to the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eternity Trap
''The Eternity Trap'' is a two-part story of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' which was first broadcast on CBBC on 5 and 6 November 2009. It is the fourth serial of the third series. The story involves the scientific investigation of a haunted house. Plot In the 17th century, Lord Marchwood employed Erasmus Darkening, an alien trapped on Earth, to make gold out of base metals. Erasmus was secretly working on a transdimensional accelerator to create a portal to his own galaxy. While Marchwood's children spied on Erasmus, he used the accelerator to trap them between dimensions. Lord Marchwood confronted Erasmus and attacked the machine, causing it to malfunction. To maintain immortality, Erasmus used the energy from people he has trapped over the centuries with his technology. In the present, Professor Rivers and her assistant Toby perform a scientific investigation of ghost sightings at Lord Marchwood's manor. They are joined by Sarah Jane, Clyde, and Rani. A mysterious polterg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisoner Of The Judoon
''Prisoner of the Judoon'' is the first serial of the third series of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It was first broadcast on 15 and 16 October 2009. The episode involves Judoon Captain Tybo chasing down an escaped prisoner known as "the destroyer of worlds", with their chase leading them to Earth. Alien investigator Sarah Jane Smith and her companions become involved after Captain Tybo issues a distress call while crash landing, which is picked up by Sarah Jane's supercomputer, Mr Smith. Plot Part 1 Sarah Jane continues to live her life on Bannerman Road. Investigating a nanotechnology company, she is thrown out and goes back to her house, when suddenly, an alien space pod crashes into a nearby building. Sarah Jane's supercomputer, Mr Smith, picks up on a distress call from the ship's occupant, a member of the "intergalactic police" race, the Judoon. Sarah Jane and her companions travel to the building, where Judoon Captain Tybo is shooting at an alien escaped prisoner, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enemy Of The Bane
''Enemy of the Bane'' is the sixth and final serial of the second series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It first aired in two weekly parts on the CBBC channel on 1 and 8 December 2008. This story was originally intended to be a crossover with the modern ''Doctor Who'' series; Russell T Davies, an executive producer of ''Doctor Who'' and creator of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' reveals in his non-fiction book '' Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale'' that former companion Martha Jones was intended to appear in the two-parter, but had to be replaced with classic series character Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) "at the last minute" due to Freema Agyeman's role in the ITV series '' Law & Order: UK'', making this the last episode to have Courtney as the Brigadier prior to his death in 2011. Plot Mrs Wormwood is now a fugitive from her people, the Bane kindred, after being blamed for the death of the Bane Mother and the fail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Of The Clown
''The Day of the Clown'' is the second serial of the List of The Sarah Jane Adventures serials#Series 2 (2008), second series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It was first broadcast in two weekly parts on the CBBC channel on 6 and 13 October 2008. ''The Day of the Clown'' introduces main character Rani Chandra (The Sarah Jane Adventures), Rani Chandra (Anjli Mohindra) and her parents, List of The Sarah Jane Adventures minor characters#Haresh Chandra, Haresh (Ace Bhatti) and List of The Sarah Jane Adventures minor characters#Gita Chandra, Gita Chandra (Mina Anwar), and they would stay for the rest of the series. Plot Luke Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures), Luke and Clyde Langer, Clyde meet Rani Chandra (The Sarah Jane Adventures), Rani Chandra, a new pupil at school who has moved into Luke's street. Clyde and Rani are stalked by a clown who was spotted prior to the disappearance of Clyde's friend Dave Finn, one of several disappearanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Sontaran
''The Last Sontaran'' is the first serial of the second series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. The first part of the two-part story aired on BBC One on 29 September 2008, with the second part premiering immediately after the first on the CBBC channel. This serial marks the departure of Maria Jackson, played by Yasmin Paige. Plot Sarah Jane, Maria, Luke, and Clyde investigate strange lights sighted near the village of Goblin's Copse, where a radio telescope observatory is located. When they discover Professor Nicholas Skinner, who runs the observatory, has gone missing in the woods, Luke and Clyde search for him. They discover Sontaran Commander Kaagh, the sole survivor of an invasion force involving the infiltration of Earth's cars that was otherwise destroyed, and his space pod. Sarah Jane and Maria gather at the pod, where Kaagh confesses he contrived the lights to draw the Professor out of the observatory. Professor Skinner r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Boy (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
''The Lost Boy'' is the fifth serial of the first series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It first aired on the CBBC channel in two weekly parts on 12 and 19 November 2007. This episode was intentionally named after Dave Pelzer's '' The Lost Boy''. In the story, Luke Smith, Sarah Jane Smith's adopted son, is allegedly reunited with his biological human parents, despite prior assumptions that he had been created by the Bane. However, the family is actually a disguised alien family of criminals called the Slitheen, who are attempting to get revenge on Luke for past encounters. Plot Alan agrees with his daughter Maria that they will not move away from Sarah Jane's neighbourhood on the condition that Alan is kept up to date with Maria's battles against aliens. Mr Smith, an alien supercomputer called a Xylok that was freed from under the Earth's surface, concocts a story where Luke is the son of two humans, Jay and Heidi (who are actu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eye Of The Gorgon
''Eye of the Gorgon'' is the second serial of the first series of the British science fiction television series ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. It first aired in two weekly parts on the CBBC channel on 1 and 8 October 2007. The episode makes references to classical mythology. Plot Sarah Jane, Luke Smith, and Clyde investigate claims of sightings of a ghostly nun at Lavender Lawns Rest Home. One of the residents that saw the nun, former adventurer Bea Nelson-Stanley, gives Luke an ancient talisman, to prevent the ancient sisterhood now based at the St Agnes Abbey from getting hold of it. The sisters intend to use the talisman to connect Earth with the world of the Gorgons 100 million light-years away, an incorporeal parasitic race that inspired the Greek myth of the ugly woman with snakes for hairs, and take over the bodies of humanity. The Gorgon, the last survivor of the three based on Earth, has spent 3,000 years passing from host to host, and now controls the body of the abb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |