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Born October 1, 1944 · Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Philip Michael Hinchcliffe (born 1 October 1944) is a retired English television producer, screenwriter and script editor. After graduating from Cambridge University, he began his career as a writer and script editor at Associated Television before joining the BBC to produce Doctor Who in one of its most popular eras from 1974 to 1977. Following Doctor Who, Hinchcliffe remained with the BBC as a producer for several years, working on series such as Private Schulz (1981), before launching a freelance career in the mid-1980s, which included making Bust and The Charmer (both 1987) for London Weekend Television. He finished his career as an executive producer for Scottish Television, with his final credit on Take Me (2001).

Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter
2025

Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
2024

Philip Hinchcliffe: Uncut
2021

Behind the Sofa - Season 14
2020

Whose Doctor Who: Revisited
2020

Scotch Mist in Sussex
2013

Remembering Douglas Camfield
2013

The Sandmine Murders
2012

Into the Wild: The Making of The Face of Evil
2012

Podshock
2010

The Foe from the Future
2010

The Tin Men and the Witch
2010

Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
2007

A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil
2007

Are Friends Electric?
2007

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2006

The Dalek Tapes
2006

Serial Thrillers
2004

The Story of Doctor Who
2003

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995

The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995

30 Years in the TARDIS
1993

Whose Doctor Who
1977

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
1976