He later appeared in the BBC Three comedy series Clone as Dr. Victor Blenkinsop also starring Stuart McLoughlin and Mark Gatiss.

Anthony Horowitz is another prolific writer for the series, adapting three novels and nine short stories, while comedian and novelist Mark Gatiss has written two episodes and also guest-starred in the series, as has Peter Flannery.

Charles Palmer ( who also directed The Clocks for the series ) directs this installment, with the screenplay being written by Mark Gatiss ( who also wrote the screenplay for Cat Among the Pigeons ; he also appeared as a guest star in the adaptation of Appointment with Death ).

Other writers for Big Finish include Rob Shearman and The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss, who have also written for the 2005 relaunch of the Doctor Who television series.

The series would also feature many special guest stars such as The League of Gentlemens Mark Gatiss playing Judge Death, Doctor Who companion actress Nicola Bryant ( who would also direct 99 Code Red!

Gatiss has also appeared twice in Doctor Who.

Gatiss also wrote, co-produced and appeared in Crooked House, a ghost story that was broadcast on BBC Four during Christmas 2008.

Gatiss also planned a scene in which the Doctor takes Rose to the future to see a world filled with walking corpses ; the result if they had left before defeating the Gelth.

Mark Gatiss has noted that the Artsex and Foodshow programmes that also appear in the play " ingeniously depicted the future of lowest common denominator TV ".

Mark Gatiss has also appeared in four Doctor Who TV episodes and written four others.

* The Anneke Wills-narrated soundtrack was also released in a collector's tin called Doctor Who: Daleks, along with the soundtrack to The Evil of the Daleks and a bonus disc featuring My Life as a Dalek, a story presented by Mark Gatiss discussing the history of the Daleks.

It also starred Bob Hoskins as Badger, Matt Lucas as Toad, and Mark Gatiss as Ratty, and has also appeared in a modernised BBC adaptation of Rapunzel for the Fairy Tales series.

In 2007, Gatiss appeared as the character Professor Lazarus in the Doctor Who episode " The Lazarus Experiment ".

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Sara Karloff about her father's career for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Warner about his role in The Omen ( 1976 ) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.

The PROBE series ran for an additional three stories ; all four were written by Mark Gatiss, who later found more widespread fame as a member of the League of Gentlemen.

In the film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, the town is on the verge of destruction when the League of Gentlemen-Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith-agree to stop writing for Royston Vasey.

The plot of the short story – Holmes and Watson attempting to recover incriminating photos from Adler – is covered briefly in the first half of the episode updated for the contemporary period ( Adler's photos are stored digitally on her mobile phone ) and adjusted ( the royal they incriminate is British and female ); the episode then moves on to an original storyline that includes Adler, Mycroft Holmes ( Mark Gatiss ) and Jim Moriarty.

Outside of the League, Gatiss ' television work has included writing for the 2001 revival of Randall & Hopkirk ( Deceased ) and script editing the popular sketch show Little Britain in 2003, making guest appearances in both.

Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Gatiss has written four episodes for the 2005-revived BBC television series Doctor Who.

Gatiss wrote and performed the comedy sketches The Web of Caves, The Kidnappers and The Pitch of Fear for the BBC's " Doctor Who Night " in 1999 with Little Britain's David Walliams, and played the Master in the Doctor Who Unbound play Sympathy for the Devil under the name " Sam Kisgart ", a pseudonym he later used for a column in Doctor Who Magazine.

" Gatiss was a scriptwriter for Doctor Who, a programme that had been particularly strongly influenced by the Quatermass serials throughout its history.

Gatiss and Roberts both did their first ever professional fiction writing for the line, as did others who later found success elsewhere, including Daniel Blythe, Justin Richards, Andy Lane and Lance Parkin.

Many authors of these books went on to write for the revival of Doctor Who in 2005: Russell T Davies, Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts, Matt Jones, and Mark Gatiss.

An article for The Daily Telegraph in 2005 described Doctor Who as the " spiritual successor " to the Quatermass serials, and Mark Gatiss, a scriptwriter on Doctor Who, wrote of his admiration of Kneale in an article for The Guardian in 2006.

The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss, mentions on the DVD commentary for the First Series, that during the scene where Benjamin phones Barbara to arrange an exit from Royston Vasey, two workmen who have been abducted by Tubs and Edward escape, covered in tar, was inspired by a scene during which Vincent Broadhead is covered in " Synthetic Food " from one of the storage tanks.

In 2010, actor-writer Mark Gatiss interviewed Steele about her role in Black Sunday ( 1960 ) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror .< ref >

He persuades Herr Lipp to hand him the gun, only for Geoff to accidentally fire it and kill Gatiss himself.

Mark Gatiss: " There was a funny moment when we were filming by the sea and the doubles for Tubbs and Edward and Papa Lazarou were all having a fag.

Another admirer, the writer and actor Mark Gatiss, has said that upon seeing Big Brother he yelled at the television, " Don't they know what they're doing?

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror .< ref >

The Sontarans will next appear in the seventh series of Doctor Who, in an episode penned by Mark Gatiss.

It starred Diana Rigg, Lesley Manville, Mark Gatiss, Joanne Froggatt, Colin Morgan, and Charlotte Randle.

The League of Gentlemen are a quartet of British dark comedy writers / performers, formed in 1995 by Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.

The first series aired on BBC Two in 1999, and follows the lives of dozens of the town's bizarre inhabitants, played by Gatiss, Pemberton and Shearsmith in a number of different guises and make-up.

However, Shearsmith and Pemberton did reunite in 2009 to create a similarly-dark BBC sitcom, Psychoville, which featured an episode guest-starring Gatiss.

Despite this claim, Gatiss appears in the show as an actor who is murdered by the characters played by Pemberton and Shearsmith.

Gatiss has said in interview that the local shop was inspired by a shop in the village of Rottingdean and that he was influenced growing up around the former Winterton Hospital asylum near Sedgefield.

The majority of the inhabitants of the village — male and female — are played by Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss, and the script was written by these three, along with Jeremy Dyson.

Episodes following the rechristening saw some characterisations by their all-star casts, such as Zoë Wanamaker's portrayal of Ariadne Oliver, tend towards tongue-in-cheek ; comedy actors, including Mark Gatiss, Daisy Donovan, and Steve Pemberton, have featured in the casts of these later episodes.

In all these productions, Warner has worked with writer and comedian Mark Gatiss of the League of Gentlemen, and plays a guest role in the League's 2005 feature film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.

After a successful run by the Leeds Library Theatre Company, touring the United Kingdom in October and November 2003, the play was turned into a television drama starring Mark Gatiss and Julia Davis, broadcast in October 2006 on BBC Four as one of a series of culinary-themed dramas.

Author Mark Gatiss described the Nightshade serial in his notes accompanying the e-book release as " a TV series that isn't quite Quatermass and isn't quite Doctor Who ", adding " I was utterly obsessed by Quatermass at that time.

* Mark Gatiss played Mycroft in the 2010 BBC television series Sherlock.

Mark Gatiss, the co-creator of the modern day adaptation series Sherlock, has announced that the first episode of the show's third series will be based on The Adventures of The Empty House.

* Gatiss, Lee.

Mark Gatiss ( ; born 17 October 1966 ) is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist.