History Creator / RussellTDavies

He is also known for being very tall of stature, standing at ''6'6"'' (198cm). To wit, he once relayed a story of a casual talk with a taxi driver he once had, during which he mentioned he was working with ''Doctor Who'', to which the driver asked if his job was playing one of the monsters.

Davies has written several ''Doctor Who'' episodes and specials over his tenure as producer, and been responsible for rewrites on many more. He stepped down from the position following the conclusion of production on the Creator/DavidTennant era, handing the reins to Creator/StevenMoffat. He is currently set return to the position in 2023, after the departure of Moffat's own replacement Creator/ChrisChibnall.

He is also known for being very tall of stature, standing at *6'6"* (198cm). To wit, he once relayed a story of a casual talk with a taxi driver he once had, during which he mentioned he was working with ''Doctor Who'', to which the driver asked if his job was playing one of the monsters.

He is also know for being very tall of stature, standing at 6'6" (198cm). To wit, he once relayed a story of a casual talk with a taxi driver he once had, during which he mentioned he was working with ''Doctor Who'', to which the driver asked if his job was playing one of the monsters.

He is also know for being very tall of stature, standing at 6'5 feet/1,98 meters. To wit, he once relayed a story of a casual talk with a taxi driver he once had, during which he mentioned he was working with ''Doctor Who'', to which the driver asked if his job was playing one of the monsters.

Davies has written several ''Doctor Who'' episodes and specials over his tenure as producer, and been responsible for rewrites on many more. He stepped down from the position following the conclusion of production on the Creator/DavidTennant era, handing the reins to Creator/StevenMoffat. He returned to the position in 2023, after the departure of Moffat's own replacement Creator/ChrisChibnall.

* The 2005 revival of ''Series/DoctorWho'' (31 episodes, plus one 2005 Children in Need special, written or co-written, 2005-2010)

Davies has written several ''Doctor Who'' episodes and specials over his tenure as producer, and been responsible for rewrites on many more. He stepped down from the position following the conclusion of production on the Creator/DavidTennant era, handing the reins to Creator/StevenMoffat.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See the Hotter and Sexier entry below.

[[folder:Recurring and over-arching tropes in his Whoniverse work (''Doctor Who'', ''Torchwood'', ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse) :]]

* BloodierAndGorier: ''Torchwood'' is definitely more so than ''Doctor Who''.

* TheUnpronounceable: A RunningGag in ''Doctor Who'':
** Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius. Getting the planet's name right became a RunningGag of its own.
** The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. This one so stumped Simon Pegg the one time he had to say it that he was told to just say it the best he could and a roaring sound was added in post-production to cover his very minor mispronunciation.
** And in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]'' we have Bannakaffalatta.

* Human Resources: Aliens and monsters of his tenure frequently need resources that can are harvested from humans, whether it be whole bodies (the Cybermen), skin (the Slitheen) raw genetic material (the Daleks) fat (the Adipose), life energy (the Lazarus monster) or various organs (the Clockword Droids).

* CivvieSpandex: Both the incarnations of the Doctor under his run wore decidedly modern clothing as their normal costumes, as opposed to the more old-fashioned and anachronistic costumes of many of the classic series Doctors.

* JokerImmunity: He has a tendency to wipe villains out, then bring them back/reveal they weren't dead after all. Examples from ''Doctor Who'' are the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Master, Lady Cassandra, the Time Lords [[note]] while the Time Lords never actually returned under Davies's tenure, they ''did'' briefly escape the Time War into the present day before being sent right back again to die. Technically not this trope, but effectively so.[[/note]]...

** He has a habit of creating characters with disembodies heads/faces. The Face of Boe (a giant disembodies head) and Cassandra (a stretch of skin with only a face on it) both appear in "The End of the World", a characters gets turned into a face on a slab of stone at the ends of "Love and Monsters", the Toclafane in the Season 3 finale are nothing but emaciated faces inside their spheres, and Max Capricorn in "Voyage of the Damned" is revealed to be a cyborg with a human head on top of a mechanical, boxy body.

* GenreRoulette: He deliberately emphasized this in ''Doctor Who''. The first three episodes of Series One went from an AlienInvasion on modern-day Earth to a Whodunnit in the far future to a ghost story with Creator/CharlesDickens in the past. And then back to an Alien Invasion on modern-day Earth again...

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!! Tropes applying to him:

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!! Recurring and over-arching tropes in his Whoniverse work (''Doctor Who'', ''Torchwood'', ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse) :

* WasOnceAMan: His ''Who'' scripts frequently have monsters who used to be human, monsters that were made from humans, or humans that end up becoming something else: Lady Cassandra, the Face of Boe (possibly), the patients in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth New Earth]]'', the werewolf in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]'', the Cybermen (although that was already their origin in the classic series, Davies made sure to bring this aspect to the forefront in the revival), Ursula Blake, the Futurekind and Toclafane, Maxwell Capricorn, the Adipose, the possessed Sky, and the flood-zombies in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]'', from his ''Doctor Who'' scripts alone, never mind his other Whoniverse work.
He even manages to incorporate this into villains that aren't normally associated with it: the Daleks have used humans as genetic material for new Dalek forms a couple times during his run, and in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]'', the Time Lord known as the Master turns every human on Earth into a duplicate of himself (although it gets undone later).
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!! Tropes in and shared with his other works:

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* WasOnceAMan: His ''Who'' scripts frequently have monsters who used to be human, or humans that end up becoming something else: Lady Cassandra, the Face of Boe (possibly), the patients in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth New Earth]]'', the werewolf in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]'', the Cybermen (although that was already their origin in the classic series, Davies made sure to bring this aspect to the forefront in the revival), Ursula Blake,

* AstronomicZoom: He likes to open ''Doctor Who'' episodes this way. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]", [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]"

Stephen Russell Davies (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T. Davies, is a British producer and screenwriter, born in Swansea. He added the T to his name because [[NamesTheSame there was already a Russell Davies in UK media]].