Edward Thomas was the production designer for almost every episode of Doctor Who from series 1 to series 5. He was also the production designer for every episode of Torchwood from series 1 to 3, the last two episodes of series 4 and UK unit work for the rest of that series and for series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
As a result, his influence on the look of the Doctor Who universe cannot be overestimated. It goes only a small way towards explaining his importance to note that he designed the TARDIS control room set for the Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and the initial Matt Smith era TARDIS, the Eccleston, Tennant and Smith era TARDIS exteriors, the Torchwood hub and Sarah Jane Smith's attic. After leaving Doctor Who, the TARDIS exterior prop Thomas designed for the Matt Smith era continued to be used into Peter Capaldi's run.
After The Big Bang, he relinquished his duties to Michael Pickwoad, then became the production designer for another BBC science fiction programme, Outcasts.
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- Rose
- The End of the World
- The Unquiet Dead
- Aliens of London
- World War Three
- Dalek
- The Long Game
- Father's Day
- The Empty Child
- The Doctor Dances
- Boom Town
- Bad Wolf
- The Parting of the Ways
- The Christmas Invasion
- New Earth
- Tooth and Claw
- School Reunion
- The Girl in the Fireplace
- Rise of the Cybermen
- The Age of Steel
- The Idiot's Lantern
- The Impossible Planet
- The Satan Pit
- Love & Monsters
- Fear Her
- Army of Ghosts
- Doomsday
- Everything Changes
- Day One
- Ghost Machine
- Cyberwoman
- Small Worlds
- Countrycide
- Greeks Bearing Gifts
- They Keep Killing Suzie
- Random Shoes
- Out of Time
- Combat
- The Runaway Bride
- Captain Jack Harkness
- End of Days
- Invasion of the Bane
- Smith and Jones
- The Shakespeare Code
- Gridlock
- Daleks in Manhattan
- Evolution of the Daleks
- The Lazarus Experiment
- 42
- Human Nature
- The Family of Blood
- Blink
- Utopia
- The Sound of Drums
- Last of the Time Lords
- Revenge of the Slitheen
- Eye of the Gorgon
- Warriors of Kudlak
- Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
- The Lost Boy
- Voyage of the Damned
- Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- Sleeper
- To the Last Man
- Meat
- Adam
- Reset
- Dead Man Walking
- A Day in the Death
- Something Borrowed
- From Out of the Rain
- Adrift
- Fragments
- Exit Wounds
- Partners in Crime
- The Fires of Pompeii
- Planet of the Ood
- The Sontaran Stratagem
- The Poison Sky
- The Doctor's Daughter
- The Unicorn and the Wasp
- Silence in the Library
- Forest of the Dead
- Midnight
- Turn Left
- The Stolen Earth
- Journey's End
- The Next Doctor
- Planet of the Dead
- Children of Earth: Day One
- Children of Earth: Day Two
- Children of Earth: Day Three
- Children of Earth: Day Four
- Children of Earth: Day Five
- The Waters of Mars
- The End of Time
- The Eleventh Hour
- The Beast Below
- Victory of the Daleks
- The Time of Angels
- Flesh and Stone
- The Vampires of Venice
- The Hungry Earth
- Cold Blood
- Vincent and the Doctor
- The Pandorica Opens
- The Big Bang
- The New World
- The Middle Men
- The Gathering
- The Blood Line