Born: 22nd June 1953 (as Ian Geoffrey Levine)
Episodes Broadcast: 1981, 1985

Ian Levine was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, and developed a passion for Doctor Who from its earliest days. During the Seventies, he began to establish himself as a preeminent club disc jockey and helped revolutionise the Northern Soul music scene, later parlaying this success into a career as a music producer. Levine's interest in Doctor Who led him to approach the BBC about acquiring copies of old episodes. As a result, he became one of the first fans to uncover the mass junking of serials from the BBC Archives. Levine was instrumental in putting a halt to the practice, and helped to recover a number of Doctor Who programmes previously believed to be lost.

Levine made the acquaintance of John Nathan-Turner around the time that he became the producer of Doctor Who in 1979. Levine was soon acting as an unofficial continuity adviser for the production office, and encouraged Nathan-Turner's efforts to more aggressively appeal to the show's longtime fans. He was also in the process of establishing a successful songwriting partnership with Fiachra Trench, which focussed on dance club music. When Nathan-Turner attempted to develop a Doctor Who spin-off which featured the robot dog K·9, Levine and Trench were commissioned to write the theme music for the 1981 pilot episode, A Girl's Best Friend.

Levine became one of the public faces of the protest against the BBC's treatment of Doctor Who

Levine also attempted to interest Nathan-Turner and script editor Eric Saward in several story ideas. He would ultimately contribute to 1985's Attack Of The Cybermen, starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor. Accounts vary as to the extent of his involvement; the serial was credited to the pseudonymous “Paula Moore”. Shortly thereafter, the BBC postponed the start of Doctor Who's 1986 season by eight months while the programme was retooled. Levine became one of the public faces of the protest against the BBC's treatment of Doctor Who, famously photographed in The Sun putting a hammer through his television screen. As part of the campaign, Levine and Trench composed Doctor In Distress -- a song performed, in part, by several actors from the show.

During Doctor Who's hiatus, however, Levine came to feel that Nathan-Turner had not always been completely honest with him. This led to the end of his involvement in the programme's production. Levine remained a prolific songwriter, composing tunes for acts like the Pet Shop Boys and Take That, while managing several bands. In the twenty-first century, Levine made several special features for the range of Doctor Who DVDs from BBC Video. He also became determined to complete the unfinished 1979 serial Shada and, in 2011, he privately commissioned animation to fill in the gaps which had been left when production was halted by industrial action. However, BBC Video subsequently chose to work with different animators on the eventual 2017 release. Sadly, Levine was partially paralysed by a massive stroke in 2014.