Stephen Gallagher

If you just want the free story, scroll on down to the links. Otherwise… Back when we were wrapping up Crusoe for NBC, producer Jeff Hayes pitched me a TV project that a colleague of his was looking to set up. It was called Houdini and Doyle and it was about the real-life friendship between…

Toby Hadoke’s marathon interview series continues: Toby Hadoke’s Who’s Round 168 – Stephen Gallagher (Part 2) The second part of an interview with one of those script writers whose subsequent career means that Doctor Who is just a tiny element of an impressive CV. So he discusses his work on the show from the perspective…

On Saturday May 7th, 2016, I’ll be guesting at the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s 40th anniversary weekend at the Arora Hotel, Gatwick. Details No idea what I’ll be doing. No doubt spouting the usual old nonsense to anyone who cares to listen. I’ll just be one in a very big list of show-related figures, some…

In 2005 Telos Publishing put together a special edition of my novel Valley of Lights for their Telos Classics line. This same edition is now available in ebook form. Like the expanded trade paperback – which is still available to order – the ebook contains the text of the novel along with extra material: An…

It was my first visit to the JBTV offices in Santa Monica. I was meeting with the members of Jerry Bruckheimer’s (surprisingly compact) TV team in the office of Executive Producer Jonathan Littman. Amongst the DVDs on the shelf by his desk, I noticed a boxed set of Danger Man (retitled Secret Agent for US…

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I just took delivery of Network’s meticulously restored Blu-Ray of the 1979 Euston Films production known variously as Quatermass, Quatermass IV, or The Quatermass Conclusion. I’m a long-time Kneale and Quatermass fan, and Network’s track record with this kind of material is exemplary. But all the same I’d been dragging my feet until a correspondence…

The village of Haworth, Yorkshire home of the Bronte sisters, has pretty much turned itself into a living museum. In fact the parsonage where they grew up is an actual museum, preserved in period, looking across headstones to the church at the top of the town. If you squint and ignore the tourists you can…

OK, so you can’t read it in the picture, but that’s definitely my name on the shiny plate at the bottom. Just take my word for it, okay? The SOFFIA represents the recognition given by the Society of Fantastic Films to creators and performers with a body of work in the genre. They’ve been presented…

This week’s Radio Times entry for my episode of Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, airing tonight: Nobody would argue this series was out of the top drama drawer, but when it gets a head of steam up it’s got something. For whatever reason, the plot about a London detective (James Nesbitt) and his pursuit of shadowy…