Known for Writing
Steven W. Moffat is a British TV writer. After he established himself as a comedic writer early on in his career, writing the sitcoms 'Couplings' and 'Press Gang' in the 1990's, he later-on also became well-known as an horror and adventure writer throughout the 2000's, writing for the revival of popular BBC science-fiction show 'Doctor Who', receiving the most BAFTA awards any 'Doctor Who' writer has ever received for his scripts for the show. From 2010 on, he took over as show runner of 'Doctor Who' from Russell T. Davies, passing the job on to Chris Chibnall in 2018 after Series 10. In 2010, he also created BBC's literary adaptation crime series 'Sherlock' with Mark Gatiss, on which they concluded their work in 2017 after four series, after it had become an international success and made it's title stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman world-famous. In 2011, he wrote the script for a major Hollywood blockbuster, Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin'. 2020, he continued work with Gatiss, as they created another literary adaptation for the BBC, 'Dracula'. He is one of Britain's most distinguished and well-known TV writers.
Born
November 18, 1961 (age 64)
Birthplace
Paisley, Scotland, UK
Filmography
89 films, 43 shows


Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017 · 1h · UK
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the Doctors the universe still needs them.


Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
2016 · 1h 2m · UK
When brain-swapping aliens attack New York, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter and a mysterious masked superhero known only as the Ghost. Can the Doctor save Manhattan? And what will be revealed when we see behind the mask?


Doctor Who: Friend from the Future
2016 · 2m
The Doctor and Bill are chased by a group of Daleks in a short introductory video to present Bill, the new companion, to audiences for the first time.


Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016 · 1h 30m · UK
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.


Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 · 1h · UK
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.


Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation
2015 · 7m · UK
The Doctor contemplates a journey to see an old acquaintance and digs a well. Released in cinemas alongside the 3D double-bill of Dark Water and Death in Heaven.


Doctor Who: Last Christmas
2014 · 57m · UK
The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!


Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
2014 · 1h 44m · UK
In this epic two-part finale, the Doctor comes face to face with the mysterious Missy, and an impossible choice is looming. With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies, and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role.


Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
2013 · 1h · UK
Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.


Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013 · 7m · US
John and Lestrade try to move on with their lives after Sherlock's apparent death. However, Anderson believes he is still alive.


The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
2013 · 7m · UK
A two-scene introduction that was shown exclusively in advance of the 50th anniversary theatrical screenings of The Day of the Doctor.


Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 · 1h 17m · UK
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.


Doctor Who: The Last Day
2013 · 4m · UK
A Gallifreyan soldier undergoes initiation in the use of a headcam, as well as the defence of Arcadia.


Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013 · 7m · UK
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.


Doctor Who: The Inforarium
2013 · 2m · UK
The Eleventh Doctor deletes himself from history.


Doctor Who: Rain Gods
2013 · 3m · UK
The Doctor and River Song find themselves at the mercy of the natives of the planet of the Rain Gods, who mean to sacrifice them to their deities, until the Doctor calls upon the gods themselves to help them out of the fix.


Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
2013 · 2m · UK
While sleeping over, the TARDIS decides to play a prank on Clara, much to her displeasure.


Doctor Who at the Proms
2013 · 1h 14m · UK
Doctor Who returns to the Proms to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the popular BBC series. As well as showcasing Murray Gold’s music from the past eight years, the concert also journeys back to the early days of Doctor Who and the groundbreaking work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Featuring special guests from the series, big screens and a host of monsters ready to invade the Royal Albert Hall, this is not the year to be exterminated!


Doctor Who: Clarence and the Whispermen
2013 · 2m
The Whisper Men approach Clarence DeMarco while in jail, producing the coordinates to Trenzalore which he must give to the 'reptile detective' so they would end up with the Doctor.


Doctor Who: She Said, He Said
2013 · 4m
The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald muse over each others' mysteries and reflect on how little they really know about one another.


Doctor Who: The Snowmen
2012 · 1h · UK
The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...


Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: Bad Night
2012 · 4m
When Amy is woken in the middle of the night by the TARDIS telephone, she learns the Doctor carries on a very active social and adventuring life while his companions sleep.


Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: Good Night
2012 · 5m
When Amy wakes to find the Doctor carrying a euphonium guiltily, she uses the opportunity to ask a question that has been bothering her for a long time.


Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: First Night
2012 · 3m · UK
The night River Song is imprisoned in Stormcage for killing the Eleventh Doctor, she receives a visit from her husband to take her out on their first date. Things get complicated when another River arrives.


Doctor Who - Night and The Doctor: Last Night
2012 · 4m · UK
The Doctor's first date with River has gotten more than a little complicated. With three versions of her in the TARDIS, it takes two of him to sort matters.


Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: Up All Night
2012 · UK
Craig worries about the responsibilities of fatherhood while his wife attempts to assure him that everything will be alright.


Doctor Who: Vastra Investigates
2012 · 3m · UK
Madame Vastra, accompanied by her loyal companions Jenny Flint and Strax, is called upon to investigate a Victorian murder mystery. But where is the Doctor?


Doctor Who: The Great Detective
2012 · 5m · UK
Vastra, Jenny, and Strax try to persuade the grumpy Doctor to engage again.


Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
2011 · 59m · UK
It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness - all she has to do is make a wish.


Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe Prequel
2011 · 2m · UK
The Eleventh Doctor has his hand on a button that, when released, will blow up a ship that's about to destroy the Earth. He calls Amy Pond on the TARDIS phone to ask her to rescue him, but realises she can't fly the TARDIS, he doesn't have the co-ordinates to give her and she left the TARDIS long ago. The Doctor admits he just wanted to chat, says "Merry Christmas, Amelia", and releases the button. The ship explodes.


Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song Prequel
2011 · 2m · UK
A digital clock on a computer screen flickers between 05:02:57 PM and 05:02:58 PM. A series of black and white video feeds from security cameras reveal the place to be Area 52. The last shot is of an apparently empty specimen tank. Two soldiers, each wearing an eyepatch, make their way down a corridor, stopping next to a pair of empty tanks nestled into alcoves along the wall. The soldiers check the tanks, report them as secured, then move on. After the soldiers leave, a Silent appears in each tank, alive and awake. Footage from security cameras throughout the base reveal there are at least one hundred and twelve identical tanks, with the implication that all of them contain Silents. Behind a barricaded wooden door in another room containing an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, a woman in a black suit stands with her back turned to the camera. As the camera zooms in, she turns. It is River Song, with an eyepatch over her right eye. She smiles.
Doctor Who Motion Comic
Doctor Who Motion Comic
2011 · 2m
Doctor Who Motion Comic is a sixty-second motion comic which was seen as part of the premiere of Let's Kill Hitler on BBC America.


Doctor Who: Let’s Kill Hitler Prequel
2011 · 2m · UK
Amy leaves a message on the TARDIS' answering machine. She speaks about her baby and what to do when he finds her. She knows that her baby will become River Song, but still wants to raise her. She is living in the hope that the Eleventh Doctor will find Melody. She doesn't know if the Doctor is listening to her and is leaving a message, hoping he will listen to it. The Doctor is shown to be off to the side, silently listening to her message with all the lights in the control room turned off in an attempt to feel more at ease while in a lowly mood. He cannot bring himself to answer any of Amy's calls as they grow increasingly impatient and worried, eventually closing his eyes and trying to block out the intense feelings of regret that hearing the calls has brought upon him.


Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War - Prequel
2011 · 2m · UK
Dorium meets three cloaked figures, informing them that his agents have procured the exact security software they have requested. Dorium has extracted it from the memory of a Judoon trooper, admitting he decided that it was quicker to take the whole brain. He gives them the brain in exchange for a bag of sentient money. Dorium doesn't understand why they are doing all this to imprison one child, and says he's heard rumours about whose child they've taken. He asks if they are mad and if they've heard the stories about the Doctor. Dorium warns them "God help us if you've made him angry".


Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaut Prequel
2011 · 2m
President Nixon receives an ominous, impossible call.


Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
2010 · 1h 2m · UK
Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?


Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010 · 4m · UK
Amy tries to flirt with The Doctor but he tries to ignore her advances.


Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 1
2010 · 3m · UK
After Amy enters the TARDIS, Amy is awestruck when she sees what lies inside.


Doctor Who at the Proms
2010 · 1h · UK
For the second time since its revival, Doctor Who's music will be enjoyed by numerous fans since the previous Proms in 2008. Everyone's favourite monsters are here! Nothing else to do but hang on for the ride, and see where you end up.


Doctor Who: Time Crash
2007 · 8m · UK
After Martha Jones parts company with the Doctor, his TARDIS collides with another, and he comes face to face with one of his previous incarnations.


Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999 · 23m · UK
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.


The Office
1996 · 30m
Middle manager Norman is preparing an address to senior management. When an interview with his new boss leads to an awful misunderstanding, Norman finds himself naked in the wrong office with minutes to go until his presentation.
Exam Conditions
Exam Conditions
1992 · 30m · UK
A teenage boy tries desperately to retrieve the rude caricature he accidentally handed in before his teacher notices.