Stephen Russell Davies (1963, E), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who, and the trilogy Cucumber, Tofu, and Banana. Born in Swansea, Davies graduated from Oxford University and joined the BBC’s children’s department in 1985. He left the BBC in the early 1990s to work for Granada Television and later became a freelance writer. He started writing for adults TV in 1994 and has numerous credits to his name. Caused controversy in 2020 by suggesting that only gay actors should play gay parts, which is extremely heterophobic.
Production credits
- Why Don’t You? BBC1 1985–90
- Play School BBC1 1987
- On the Waterfront BBC1 1988–89
- DEF II BBC2 1989
- Breakfast Serials BBC1 1990
- Dark Season BBC1 1991
- Children’s Ward ITV 1992–96
- Families ITV 1992–93
- ChuckleVision BBC1 1992
- Century Falls BBC1 1993
- Cluedo ITV 1993
- Do the Right Thing BBC1 1994–95
- The House of Windsor ITV 1994
- Revelations ITV 1994–95
- Coronation Street ITV 1996
- Springhill Channel 4/Sky One 1996–97
- Damaged Goods N/A 1996
- Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas! Straight-to-video 1997
- The Grand ITV 1997–98
- Touching Evil BBC1 1997
- Queer as Folk Channel 4 1999–2000
- Bob & Rose ITV 2001
- Linda Green BBC One 2001
- The Second Coming ITV 2003
- Mine All Mine ITV 2004
- Casanova BBC Three 2005
- Doctor Who BBC One 2005–10
- Doctor Who Confidential BBC Three 2005–10
- Tardisodes BBC.co.uk 2006
- Torchwood BBC Three (2006–07)
- BBC One (HD)/Starz (2011) 2006–11
- Torchwood Declassified BBC Three 2006–11
- The Sarah Jane Adventures CBBC/BBC One 2007–11
- Baker Boys BBC One Wales 2011
- Wizards vs Aliens CBBC 2012
- Old Jack’s Boat CBeebies 2013
- The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot BBC Red Button 2013
- Cucumber Channel 4 2015
- Banana E4 2015
- Tofu All 4 2015
- Damaged Goods N/A 2015
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream BBC One 2016
- A Very English Scandal BBC One 2018
Doctor Who franchise writing credits
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- 2005 “Rose”, “The End of the World”, “Aliens of London”/”World War Three”, “The Long Game”, “Boom Town”, “Bad Wolf”/”The Parting of the Ways”, “Doctor Who: Children in Need”, “The Christmas Invasion”
- 2006 “New Earth”, “Tooth and Claw”, “Love & Monsters”, “Army of Ghosts”/”Doomsday”, “The Runaway Bride”
- 2007 “Smith and Jones”, “Gridlock”, “Utopia”/”The Sound of Drums”/”Last of the Time Lords”, “Voyage of the Damned”
- 2008 “Partners in Crime”, “Midnight”, “Turn Left”, “The Stolen Earth”/”Journey’s End”, “Music of the Spheres”, “The Next Doctor”
- 2009 “Planet of the Dead” (co-written with Gareth Roberts), Untitled Tonight’s the Night sketch, “The Waters of Mars” (co-written with Phil Ford)
- 2009 and 2010 The End of Time
Torchwood credits
- 2006 “Everything Changes”
- 2009 (Children of Earth) “Day One”, “Day Three” (co-written with James Moran), “Day Five”
- 2011 (Miracle Day) “The New World”, “The Blood Line” (co-written with Jane Espenson)
The Sarah Jane Adventures credits
- 2007 “Invasion of the Bane” (co-written with Gareth Roberts)
- 2010 Death of the Doctor