Adrian Anscombe

Adrian Anscombe (born 26 December 1971) has been a part of Edward Thomas' art department at the BBC Wales DWU studios since Rose. He has served in a variety of capacities on Doctor Who itself, all having to do with props. While he has occasionally been credited as a standby propsman, and props buyer, he quickly established himself as a senior member of the props team, and, between about the midway point of series 1 and the end of series 2, was most often credited as the property master or chief props master.

He also served in this capacity for the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. More recently, Anscombe has served as props buyer and set decorator for Steven Moffat's era and Russell T Davies's second era of Doctor Who. He is the most prolific set decorator in the DWU.

He also contributed to the first two series of Torchwood, first as an art department operations manager for series 1, then as set decorator for series 2. He served as props buyer for series 3. He was also the set decorator for The War Between the Land and the Sea.

Anscombe's career began in about 2001. He worked with props on a few one-off tele-movies before being employed by Ed Thomas. His work in the Doctor Who universe is, as of 2026^[update], the most notable part of his work history.