Clayton Hickman
Born: 5th January 1977 (as Clayton James Hickman)
Episodes Broadcast: 2009-2010
Bristol-born Clayton Hickman began working in the periodicals industry
in 1999, and joined the staff of Doctor Who Magazine as its
assistant editor a year later. He soon formed a writing partnership with
Gareth Roberts, and together they contributed the Fourth Doctor short
story The Not-So-Sinister Sponge to the Short Trips And Side
Steps anthology, published by BBC Books in 2000. In 2001 and 2002,
the pair scripted two comedic audio plays for Big Finish Productions:
the Sixth Doctor adventure The One Doctor and
Bang-Bang-A-Boom! featuring the Seventh Doctor. A skilled graphic
designer, Hickman began providing cover artwork for Big Finish, as well
as for the Doctor Who DVD range from BBC Video; his repertoire
would subsequently expand beyond Doctor Who. In 2002, he was
promoted to editor of Doctor Who Magazine, a post he would hold
for five and a half years. In this capacity, Hickman made frequent media
appearances -- especially following Doctor Who's 2005 television
revival -- including a role as a judge on the children's reality show
Totally Doctor Who during its 2006 season.
Another Hickman-Roberts collaboration was From Raxacoricofallapatorius With
Love..., a mini-episode which paired characters from the
Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures with comedy
legend Ronnie Corbett, for broadcast as part of the 2009 Comic
Relief charity appeal. The following year, Hickman had the
opportunity to tackle a full-length serial for The Sarah Jane
Adventures; the season finale, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith,
again saw him teaming with Roberts. The duo was in the process of
developing “Meet Mr Smith”, a story for the 2011 season of
The Sarah Jane Adventures, when the programme was brought to a
sudden end by the death of series star Elisabeth Sladen. Instead,
Hickman would go on to provide two stories -- working solo, in these
instances -- for Wizards Vs Aliens, the programme which was
developed to replace The Sarah Jane Adventures.
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