Nicholas Briggs

Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin offs.

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British - BBC - Science fiction - Television series - Doctor Who

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Some of Briggs' earliest Doctor Who-related work was as host of Myth Makers, a series of made-for-video documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s by Reeltime Pictures in which Briggs interviews many of the actors and writers involved in the series. When Reeltime expanded into producing original dramas, Briggs wrote some stories and acted in others, beginning with War Time, the first unofficial Doctor Who spin-off, and Myth Runner, a parody of Blade Runner showcasing bloopers from the Myth Makers series.

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Reeltime Pictures - Blade Runner - Blooper

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In the late 1980s, Briggs also provided the voice of a future incarnation of The Doctor (the "Nth" Doctor, who has also appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip) for a series of unofficial audio dramas by Audio Visuals (a forerunner of Big Finish Productions). He also provided the model for the face of the supposed "Ninth Doctor" for Doctor Who Magazine in the late 1990s, when the magazine's comic strip ran a storyline in which the Eighth Doctor regenerated, only for it to later be revealed that the whole thing had been a massive deception (see Shayde and Fey Truscott-Sade).

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The Doctor - Doctor Who Magazine - Audio Visuals - Big Finish Productions - 1990s - Shayde - Fey Truscott-Sade

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He wrote and appeared in several made-for-video dramas by BBV, including the third of the Stranger stories, In Memory Alone opposite former Doctor Who stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant.

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BBV - The Stranger - In Memory Alone - Colin Baker - Nicola Bryant

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In the 2005 revival of Doctor Who he provides the voice of the Nestene Consciousness in the episode Rose and the Dalek voices in the episodes Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways. He has directed many of the Big Finish Productions audio plays, and has provided Dalek, Cybermen, and other alien voices in several of those as well. He was the director of the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy Nebulous.

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2005 - Nestene Consciousness - Rose - Dalek - Dalek - Bad Wolf - The Parting of the Ways - Big Finish Productions - Audio plays - Cybermen - BBC Radio 4 - Nebulous

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He has co-written a Doctor Who book called The Dalek Survival Guide (ISBN 0563486007, published by BBC Books 2002).

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BBC Books - 2002

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