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 appeared in Edgar Wright's fake trailer for Grindhouse, Don't, a homage to ' 70s Hammer Horrors.

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.

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 wrote a biography of the film director James Whale.

Mark Gatiss wrote in The Guardian in 2006 that " What sci-fi piece of the past 50 years doesn't owe Kneale a huge debt?

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.

He created, wrote and acted in one of England's top 10 most popular sitcom / sketch shows The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson.

Following this, Graham wrote three series of the BBC Radio 4 sci-fi sit-com Nebulous ( 2005 – 2008 ) starring Mark Gatiss as Professor Nebulous.

Gatiss has written two episodes of Sherlock, a modern Sherlock Holmes series co-produced by himself and Steven Moffat.

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

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.

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.

Gatiss appears frequently in BBC Radio productions, including the science fiction comedy Nebulous and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes story The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith.

The story was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Peter Davison and Mark Strickson.

* Ke Le — Sam Kisgart ( an anagram of " Mark Gatiss ", designed to conceal that actor's presence in the story before its release )

* The DVD release of this story features a fictitious documentary, Global Conspiracy, starring Mark Gatiss as investigative reporter Terry Scanlon, following up the events surrounding the incident at Global Chemicals.

His latest writing projects include film work, a graphic adaptation of his Torturer story with artist Ian Simmons, an entry in the Cinema Macabre book introduced by Jonathan Ross and featuring Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson, and a book examining the Hellraiser movies, introduced by Doug " Pinhead " Bradley: The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy.

Its influence can be seen on later series, particularly Little Britain ( the first series of which was directed by Steve Bendelack, and script-edited by Gatiss ).

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.

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.

Gatiss was born in Sedgefield, County Durham England, where he grew up opposite the Edwardian psychiatric hospital where both his parents worked.

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, a film based on the television series, co-written by and starring Gatiss, was released in June 2005.

The dialogue was written by Simon Pegg and other actors included Pegg himself, Woody Harrelson and David Tennant, who worked with Gatiss on Doctor Who.

From December 2010 to March 2011 Gatiss was playing the role of Bernard in Alan Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings at the Royal National Theatre in London alongside Catherine Tate.

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

In the BBC Four production The Worst Journey in the World, Cherry-Garrard was played by Mark Gatiss.

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.

Speaking in the programme Doctor Who Confidential, Doctor Who Executive Producer Steven Moffat stated that the function of the Eternal Dalek had yet to be decided, while writer Mark Gatiss confirmed that the bright colours of the New Paradigm Daleks was inspired by the Daleks seen in the 1960s Amicus films.

* Ricky ( Dean Gatiss ) was Tony's replacement in the final series.

It was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Euros Lyn.

Mark Gatiss stated in the Radio Times that the original script was more bleak and frightening, but that he was advised by Davies to " make it more of a romp ".

Starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, the film was written by the cast with Jeremy Dyson, and directed by Steve Bendelack.

It was at Bretton Hall that Shearsmith met Pemberton, Gatiss and Dyson.

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.

The adaptation was written by Mark Gatiss and has several significant plot changes from the original novel, including: