Steven Moffat

Steven William Moffat (Template:IPAc-en;<ref>As pronounced by Moffat in his 2016 Oxford Union Address.</ref> born 18 November 1961)<ref name="dob">Template:Cite magazine</ref> is a Scottish television writer, television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as the second showrunner and head writer of the 2005 revival of the BBC sci-fi television series Doctor Who (2010–17), and for co-creating and co-writing the BBC crime drama television series Sherlock (2010–17). In the 2015 Birthday Honours, Moffat was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama.<ref name=GBR>United Kingdom: Template:London Gazette</ref>

Born in Paisley, Scotland, Moffat, the son of a teacher, was formerly a teacher himself.<ref name="McLean">Template:Cite news</ref> His first television work was the teen drama series Press Gang. His first sitcom, Joking Apart, was inspired by the breakdown of his first marriage. Later in the 1990s, he wrote Chalk, inspired by his own experience as an English teacher. Moffat, a lifelong fan of Doctor Who, wrote the comedic sketch episode The Curse of Fatal Death for the Comic Relief charity telethon, which aired in early 1999. His early-2000s sitcom Coupling was based upon the development of his relationship with television producer Sue Vertue.

In March 2004, Moffat was announced as one of the writers for the revived Doctor Who TV series. He wrote six episodes during Russell T Davies' first era as head writer, which aired from 2005 to 2008. Moffat's scripts during this era won him three Hugo Awards, a BAFTA Craft Award, and a BAFTA Cymru Award. Between episodes, he wrote and produced the modern-day drama series Jekyll, based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In May 2008, it was announced that Moffat would succeed Davies as showrunner, lead writer and executive producer of Doctor Who. Around the same time, he dropped his contract with film director Steven Spielberg for a film trilogy based on artist Hergé's character Tintin. Part of the lone script he wrote was used in Spielberg's film The Adventures of Tintin, eventually released in 2011.

Moffat's work in the 2010s consisted mainly of his period as the head writer of Doctor Who during the fifth through tenth series, in which he won another Hugo, and Sherlock, which won Moffat a BAFTA Craft Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In the 2020s, he wrote the BBC and Netflix drama co-productions Dracula (2020) and Inside Man (2022), the HBO sci-fi romance mini-series The Time Traveler's Wife (2022), and the ITV comedy-drama Douglas Is Cancelled (2024). In 2024, he returned to Doctor Who to write two episodes for Davies' second tenure as showrunner.

Early life

Moffat was born in Paisley, Scotland,<ref name="McLean" /> where he attended Camphill High School.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He studied at the University of Glasgow, where he was involved with the student television station Glasgow University Student Television.<ref name="gust">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After gaining a Master of Arts degree in English from Glasgow,<ref name="gla">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> he worked as a teacher for three and a half years at Cowdenknowes High School, Greenock.<ref name="greenock">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 1980s he wrote a play entitled War Zones (performed at the 1985 Glasgow Mayfest and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe<ref name="fringe">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) and a musical called Knifer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He is an atheist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

Press Gang

Moffat's father Bill was a head teacher at Thorn Primary School in Johnstone, Renfrewshire;<ref name="Lourie">Template:Cite news</ref> when the school was used for Harry Secombe's Highway in the late 1980s, Bill mentioned to the producers that he had an idea for a television series about a school newspaper. The producers asked for a sample script, to which Bill agreed on the condition his son Steven write it.<ref name="Lourie" /><ref name="herring">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="dust">After the Chalk Dust Settled, featurette on Chalk Series 1 DVD, ReplayDVD.co.uk, prod. & dir. Craig Robins</ref> Producer Sandra Hastie said that it was "the best ever first script" that she had read.<ref>Paul Cornell (1993) "Press Gang" In: Template:Cite book</ref> The resulting series was titled Press Gang, starring Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher, and it ran for five series on ITV between 1989 and 1993, with Moffat writing all forty-three episodes. The programme won a BAFTA award in its second series.<ref name="screenonline">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

During production of the second series of Press Gang, Moffat was experiencing an unhappy personal life as a result of the break-up of his first marriage. The producer was secretly phoning his friends at home to check on his state.<ref name="yesterdaysnews">Steven Moffat & Julia Sawalha, "Yesterday's News" Press Gang: Season 2 DVD audio commentary</ref> His wife's new lover was represented in the episode "The Big Finish?" by the character Brian Magboy (Simon Schatzberger), a name inspired by Brian: Maggie's boy. Moffat brought in the character so that all sorts of unfortunate things would happen to him, such as having a typewriter dropped on his foot.<ref name="big finish">Steven Moffat & Julia Sawalha, "The Big Finish?" Press Gang: Season 2 DVD audio commentary</ref>

Joking Apart

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Moffat records DVD commentary for Joking Apart (2006)

By 1990, Moffat had written two series of Press Gang, but the programme's high cost along with organisational changes at backers Central Independent Television cast its future in doubt.<ref name="big finish" /> As Moffat wondered what to do next and worried about his future employment, Bob Spiers, Press GangTemplate:'s primary director, suggested that he meet with producer Andre Ptaszynski to discuss writing a sitcom.<ref name="ott" /> Inspired by his experience working in education, Moffat's initial proposal was a programme similar to what became Chalk, a sitcom set in a school that eventually aired in 1997.<ref name="2.1comm">Ptaszynski, Andre; Moffat, Steven, Joking Apart, Series 2, Episode 1 DVD audio commentary</ref> During the pitch meeting at the Groucho Club, Ptaszynski realised that Moffat was talking passionately about his impending divorce and suggested that he write about that instead of a school sitcom.<ref name="2.1comm" /> Taking Ptaszynski's advice, Moffat's new idea was about "a sitcom writer whose wife leaves him".<ref name="fool">Fool if You Think It's Over, featurette, Joking Apart, Series 1 DVD, Dir. Craig Robins</ref> Moffat wrote two series of Joking Apart, which was directed by Spiers and starred Robert Bathurst and Fiona Gillies. The show won the Bronze Rose of Montreux<ref name="ott">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was entered for the Emmys.<ref name="telegraph">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

He wrote three episodes of Murder Most Horrid, an anthology series of comedic tales starring Dawn French. The first ("Overkill", directed by Spiers) was identified by the BBC as a "highlight" of the series.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His other two episodes were "Dying Live" (dir. Dewi Humphreys) and "Elvis, Jesus and Zack" (dir. Tony Dow).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Doctor Who short fiction

Moffat has been a fan of Doctor Who since childhood.<ref name="empty">Steven Moffat, "The Empty Child", Doctor Who, DVD audio commentary</ref> In 1995, he contributed a segment to Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventures novel Human Nature.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> His first solo Doctor Who work was a short story, "Continuity Errors", published in the 1996 Virgin Books anthology Decalog 3: Consequences.<ref name="curse">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Chalk

Between marriages, Moffat claims that he "shagged [his] way round television studios like a mechanical digger."<ref name=Lourie /> According to an interview with The New York Times, Moffat met television producer Sue Vertue at the Edinburgh Television Festival in 1996.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Vertue had been working for Tiger Aspect, a production company run by Peter Bennett-Jones. Bennett-Jones and his friend and former colleague Andre Ptaszynski, who had worked with Moffat on Joking Apart, told Moffat and Vertue that each fancied the other. A relationship blossomed and they left their respective production companies to join Hartswood Films, run by Beryl Vertue, Sue's mother.<ref name="dust" /> The couple have two children together: Joshua and Louis Oliver.<ref name=Lourie />

Before Moffat left Pola Jones for Hartswood, Ptaszynski produced Chalk, the series that the writer had pitched to him at the beginning of the decade.<ref name="dust" /> Set in a comprehensive school and starring David Bamber as manic deputy head Eric Slatt and Nicola Walker as Suzy Travis, the show was based on Moffat's three years as an English teacher.<ref name="herring" /> The studio audience responded so positively to the first series when it was taped that the BBC commissioned a second series before the first had aired. However, it was met less enthusiastically by critics upon transmission in February 1997, who had taken exception to the BBC's publicity department comparing the show to the highly respected Fawlty Towers.<ref name="dust" /> In an interview in the early 2000s, Moffat refuses to even name the series, joking that he might get attacked in the street.<ref>Coupling: Behind the Scenes, featurette (2002, prod./dir. Sarah Barnett & Christine Wilson) Couping Season 1 DVD (Region 1), BBC Video, Template:ISBN</ref>

After production wrapped on Chalk in 1997, Moffat announced to the cast that he was marrying Vertue.<ref>Chalk Series 1 DVD audio commentary, ReplayDVD</ref>

The Curse of Fatal Death

In late 1998, Moffat was approached by Vertue, a producer of Comic Relief, to write a comedic sketch based on the Doctor Who TV series to be aired across Comic Relief's 1999 telethon in several parts on BBC One.<ref name="curse" /> The sketch, The Curse of Fatal Death, was written from December 1998 to February 1999,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> recorded in February,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and broadcast in March.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Coupling

When Vertue asked Moffat for a sitcom, he decided to base it around the evolution of their own relationship.Template:Citation needed Coupling, produced by Vertue, was first broadcast on BBC Two in 2000.<ref name="guard-profile">Template:Cite news</ref> Coupling ran for four series totalling 28 episodes until 2004, all written by Moffat. He also wrote the original, unbroadcast pilot episode for the U.S. version, also titled Coupling, although this was less successful and was cancelled after four episodes on the NBC network. Moffat blamed its failure on an unprecedented level of network interference.<ref name="guard-profile" />

Doctor Who in the Russell T Davies era and Jekyll

In December 2003, Moffat received an email offering him to write for Doctor Who, following the announcement of the revival of the series in September.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> His involvement with the series was announced in March 2004.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He wrote six episodes under executive producer Russell T Davies for the 2005 through 2008 series,<ref name="guard-profile" /> which were produced from December 2004 to March 2008.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Moffat won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the two-part story "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" (both 2005), as well as the episodes "The Girl in the Fireplace" (2006) and "Blink" (2007).<ref name="Hugo06">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Hugo07">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Hugo08">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> "Blink" also gained him the BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer,<ref name="BAFTACraft">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Screenwriter.<ref name="BAFTACymru">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Between Doctor Who episodes, Moffat wrote and produced Jekyll, a modern-day drama series based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, meaning he nearly missed out on writing for the 2007 series of Doctor Who.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Written late in the series' run, he quickly based "Blink" on his previously-written Doctor Who short story from 2005, "What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow", as "a desperate way to keep a toehold" in the 2007 series.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Jekyll aired on BBC One from June 2007.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In March 2008, Davies said that he often rewrote scripts from other writers, but did not "touch a word" of Moffat's episodes.<ref name="guard-profile" />

Doctor Who and Sherlock

In October 2007, Reuters reported that Moffat would be scripting a trilogy of films based on Belgian artist Hergé's character Tintin for directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In May 2008, the BBC announced that Moffat would be succeeding Davies as lead writer and executive producer of Doctor Who for the show's fifth series, to be broadcast in 2010,<ref name=RTDgone>Template:Cite news</ref> although Davies had initiated discussions with Moffat regarding this as far back as July 2007.<ref>Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook, Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale (London: BBC Books, 2008), p. 188, reproducing the initial e-mail Davies sent Moffat addressing the issue.</ref> He had intended to complete work on the Tintin trilogy before resuming work on Doctor Who, but delays caused by the intervening 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike meant he could only submit part of a script for the first film.<ref name="bbc tintin">Template:Cite news</ref> Moffat told The Guardian in 2012 that Spielberg was "lovely" about his decision to walk away from his three-film Tintin contract to return to Doctor Who.<ref name="clue">Template:Cite news</ref> The script for the first film in the trilogy, The Adventures of Tintin (released in 2011), was completed by Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish,Template:Citation needed with a part of Moffat's script used in the film.<ref name="clue" />

During their journeys from London to Cardiff for Doctor Who, Moffat and writer Mark Gatiss conceived a contemporary update of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories called Sherlock. Vertue advised them to work on the project rather than spend years discussing it. A 60-minute pilot, written by Moffat, was filmed in January 2009.<ref name="sherlock">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The pilot was not aired but a three-episode series of 90-minute television films produced by Hartswood was commissioned.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Production on Moffat's time in charge of Doctor Who began in July 2009.<ref name="showrunnerstart">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As executive producer and lead writer, he was significantly involved in casting both Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> As Doctor Who showrunner, Moffat won another Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for writing the two-part story "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang" (both 2010).<ref name="Hugo11">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As showrunner for Sherlock , he won a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer for "A Scandal in Belgravia" (2012),<ref name="BAFTACraft12">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for "His Last Vow" (2014),<ref name="Emmys14">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for executive producing "The Abominable Bride" (2016).<ref name="Emmys16">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In June 2015, Moffat was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to drama.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In January 2016, Moffat announced he was stepping down as Doctor Who lead writer and executive producer after the 2017 series, his sixth series as showrunner, with Chris Chibnall succeeding him at the start of the eleventh series for broadcast in 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The fourth and most recent series of Sherlock finished production around August 2016,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and aired in January 2017.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> "Twice Upon a Time"—the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas special, and Moffat's last episode as lead writer and showrunner—finished production in July 2017 and broadcast on Christmas that year.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In March 2024, Moffat confirmed his return to writing for Doctor Who in Series 14.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On the episode "Boom" he was credited as both writer and as an Executive Producer.

Dracula

In October 2018, BBC One and Netflix officially commissioned Dracula, a TV series written and created by Moffat and Gatiss based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In March 2019, Moffat revealed that the first night of production was about to start.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The series began airing New Year's Day 2020, and was broadcast over three consecutive days. The three episodes were released on Netflix on 4 January 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Unfriend

On 13 February 2020, Chichester Festival Theatre announced that the play The Unfriend, written by Moffat, was intended to have its world premiere as part of the 2020 Festival Theatre season in the Minerva Theatre.<ref name="The Unfriend">Template:Cite news</ref> However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the play's opening night was postponed until 26 May 2022. It was directed by Mark Gatiss and featured Amanda Abbington, Frances Barber, Reece Shearsmith, and Michael Simkins. Following a successful run in Chichester, the play transferred to the Criterion Theatre, London, in January 2023, and thence, with Sarah Alexander as Debbie, and Lee Mack as Peter, to Wyndham's Theatre in January 2024.

Production credits

Television

Production	Notes	Broadcaster
Press Gang	43 episodes (1989–1993)	ITV
Stay Lucky	"The Devil Wept in Leeds" (1990)
Joking Apart	13 episodes (1991–1995)	BBC Two
Murder Most Horrid	"Overkill" (1994) "Dying Live" (1996) "Elvis, Jesus and Zack" (1999)
Chalk	12 episodes (1997)	BBC One
Doctor Who	Template:Bulletedlist	Template:Nowrap
Coupling	28 episodes (2000–2004)	BBC Two BBC Three
Jekyll	6 episodes (2007)	BBC One
Sherlock	Template:Bulletedlist
Dracula	Miniseries (co-written with Mark Gatiss, 2020)
The Time Traveler's Wife	Miniseries (2022)	HBO
Inside Man<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Miniseries (2022)	BBC One/Netflix
Douglas Is Cancelled	Miniseries (2024)	ITVX

Doctor Who episodes written

Doctor Who television credits

Year	Season/Series	Episode	Episode Template:Abbr	Notes
1999	Template:N/A	The Curse of Fatal Death	Template:N/A	Four-part mini-episode. Part of Red Nose Day 1999.
2005	Series 1	"The Empty Child" / "The Doctor Dances"	9–10
2006	Series 2	"The Girl in the Fireplace"	4
2007	Series 3	"Blink"	10
	Template:N/A	"Time Crash"	Template:N/A	Mini-episode. Part of Children in Need 2007.
2008	Series 4	"Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead"	8–9
2010	Template:N/A	"The End of Time" Part Two	Template:N/A	New Year's Day special. Sometimes known as series 4, episode 18. One uncredited scene by Moffat.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Series 5	"The Eleventh Hour"	1
		"The Beast Below"	2
		"The Time of Angels" / "Flesh and Stone"	4–5
		"The Pandorica Opens" / "The Big Bang"	12–13
		"Meanwhile in the TARDIS"	Template:N/A	Two-part mini-episode created for the fifth series' DVD and Blu-ray
	Series 6	"A Christmas Carol"	Template:N/A	Christmas special
2011	Template:N/A	"Dermot and the Doctor"	Template:N/A	Mini-episode, also titled "The Doctor Saves Day" Template:Sic<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> and "The Doctor and a galaxy of stars".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Part of the 12th National Television Awards.
	Template:N/A	"Space" / "Time"	Template:N/A	Mini-episode. Part of Red Nose Day 2011.
	Series 6	"The Impossible Astronaut" / "Day of the Moon"	1–2	Also had a prequel mini-episode on the BBC Doctor Who website
		"A Good Man Goes to War"	7
		"Let's Kill Hitler"	8
		"The Wedding of River Song"	13
	Template:N/A	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:N/A	Mini-episode. Part of Children in Need 2011.
	Series 6	Night and the Doctor	Template:N/A	Series of five mini-episodes called "Bad Night", "Good Night", "First Night", "Last Night", and "Up All Night". Created for the sixth series' DVD and Blu-ray.
	Series 7	"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"	Template:N/A	Christmas special. Also had a prequel mini-episode on the BBC Doctor Who website.
2012		"Asylum of the Daleks"	1	Also had a prequel mini-episode initially released on iTunes
		"The Angels Take Manhattan"	5
		"The Great Detective"	Template:N/A	Prequel mini-episode to "The Snowmen". Part of Children in Need 2012.
		"The Snowmen"	Template:N/A	Christmas special. Also had two online prequel mini-episodes, one on iTunes in 2013 and one on the BBC website in 2012. Sometimes known as series 7, episode 6.
2013		"The Bells of Saint John"	6	Also had a prequel mini-episode on the BBC website. Sometimes known as series 7, episode 7.
		"The Name of the Doctor"	13	Also had a prequel mini-episode available on BBC Red Button. Sometimes known as series 7, episode 14.
		"Clarence and the Whispermen"	Template:N/A	Mini-episode produced for the Series 7 Part Two DVD and Blu-ray
	Template:N/A	"Body Swap"	Template:N/A	Mini-episode. Part of the 2013 Doctor Who Prom.
	Series 7	"Clara and the TARDIS"	Template:N/A	Mini-episode created for the complete seventh series DVD and Blu-ray
		"The Inforarium"	Template:N/A
	Template:N/A	"The Night of the Doctor"	Template:N/A	BBC iPlayer/YouTube mini-episode
	Template:N/A	"The Last Day"	Template:N/A	Online mini-episode
	Template:N/A	"The Day of the Doctor"	Template:N/A	50th anniversary special. Also wrote a special introduction for cinema screenings of the episode.
	Template:N/A	"The Time of the Doctor"	Template:N/A	Christmas special
2014	Series 8	"Deep Breath"	1	Also wrote a special introduction for cinema screenings of the episode
		"Into the Dalek"	2	With Phil Ford
		"Listen"	4
		"Time Heist"	5	With Steve Thompson
		"The Caretaker"	6	With Gareth Roberts
		"Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven"	11–12
	Series 9	"Last Christmas"	Template:N/A	Christmas special
2015		"The Doctor's Meditation"	Template:N/A	Mini-episode and prequel to "The Magician's Apprentice". Shown during cinema screenings of "Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven".
		"The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar"	1–2	Also had an online prologue
		"The Girl Who Died"	5	With Jamie Mathieson
		"The Zygon Inversion"	8	With Peter Harness
		"Heaven Sent"	11
		"Hell Bent"	12
		"The Husbands of River Song"	Template:N/A	Christmas special
2016	Series 10	"Friend from the Future"	Template:N/A	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Repurposed into part of "The Pilot"
		"The Return of Doctor Mysterio"	Template:N/A	Christmas special
2017		"The Pilot"	1
		"Extremis"	6
		"The Pyramid at the End of the World"	7	With Peter Harness
		"World Enough and Time" / "The Doctor Falls"	11–12
		"Twice Upon a Time"	Template:N/A	Christmas special
2024	Series 14Template:Efn	"Boom"	3
	Series 15Template:Efn	"Joy to the World"	Template:N/A	Christmas special

Sherlock episodes written

Sherlock television credits

Year	Season/Series	Episode	Episode Template:Abbr	Notes
2009	Template:N/A	"A Study in Pink"	Template:N/A	Unaired pilot
2010	Series 1	"A Study in Pink"	1
2012	Series 2	"A Scandal in Belgravia"	1
2013	Series 3	"Many Happy Returns"	Template:N/A	Online mini-episode and a prequel to series 3. With Mark Gatiss.
2014		"The Sign of Three"	2	With Steve Thompson and Mark Gatiss
		"His Last Vow"	3
2016	Template:N/A	"The Abominable Bride"	Template:N/A	New Year's Day special. With Mark Gatiss.
2017	Series 4	"The Lying Detective"	2
		"The Final Problem"	3	With Mark Gatiss

Film

Production	Notes	Distributor
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Feature film (co-written with Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, 2011)	Paramount Pictures (North America/UK/Australia) Sony Pictures Releasing<ref name="sonypictures">Template:Cite news</ref> (International)

Stage

Production	Notes	Theatre
The Unfriend	World premiere (2022) First West End run (2023) Second West End run (2024)	Minerva Theatre, Chichester<ref name="The Unfriend"/> Criterion Theatre, London Wyndham's Theatre, London

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Category	Result	Reference
1991	British Academy Television Awards	Press Gang	Best Children's Programme (Entertainment / Drama)	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Royal Television Society Awards		Best Children's Programme	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="bbcpo" />
1992	British Academy Television Awards			Template:Nom	<ref name="bafta1" />
1995	Bronze Rose of Montreux	Joking Apart	Comedy	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2003	British Comedy Awards	Coupling	Best TV Comedy	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2006	Hugo Award	Doctor Who: "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances"	Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2007		Doctor Who: "The Girl in the Fireplace"		Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Nebula Award		Best Script	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award	Doctor Who, Series Three	Best Soap / Series (TV) (with Chris Chibnall, Paul Cornell, Russell T Davies, Helen Raynor and Gareth Roberts)	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2008	Nebula Award	Doctor Who: "Blink"	Best Script	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	British Academy Television Award		Best Writer	Template:Won	<ref name="BAFTACraft" />
	Hugo Award		Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Won	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	BAFTA Cymru		Best Screenwriter	Template:Won	<ref name="BAFTACymru" />
	BAFTA Scotland	Doctor Who	Writing in Film or Television	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	SFX Awards	Doctor Who: "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead"	Best TV Episode	Template:Nom	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
2009	Hugo Award		Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award	Doctor Who, Series Four	Television drama series (with Russell T Davies)	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2010	SFX Awards	Doctor Who (for taking over as showrunner)	Hope for the Future	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
2011	Hugo Award	Doctor Who: "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang"	Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Won	<ref name="Hugo11" />
		Doctor Who: "A Christmas Carol"		Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Primetime Emmy Award	Sherlock: "A Study in Pink"	Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Satellite Award	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (shared with Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish)	Best Adapted Screenplay	Template:Nom
2012	Annie Award		Writing in a Feature Production	Template:Nom	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Hugo Award	Doctor Who: "A Good Man Goes To War"	Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	British Academy Television Craft Awards	Template:N/a	Special Award	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Sherlock: "A Scandal in Belgravia"	Best Writing	Template:Won	<ref name="BAFTACraft12" /><ref name="bafta-craft-2012">Template:Cite news</ref>
	Primetime Emmy Award		Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2013	Hugo Award	Doctor Who: "Asylum of the Daleks"	Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Nom
		Doctor Who: "The Angels Take Manhattan"		Template:Nom
		Doctor Who: "The Snowmen"		Template:Nom
2014		Doctor Who: "The Name of the Doctor"		Template:Nom
		Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor"		Template:Nom
	Nebula Awards		Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Primetime Emmy Award	Sherlock: "His Last Vow"	Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special	Template:Won	<ref name="Emmys14" />
2015	Bram Stoker Award	Doctor Who: "Listen"	Superior Achievement in a Screenplay	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Hugo Award		Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	BAFTA Scotland	Doctor Who	Writer in Film or Television	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	Hugo Award	Doctor Who: "Heaven Sent"	Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Primetime Emmy Award	Sherlock: "The Abominable Bride"	Outstanding Television Movie	Template:Won	<ref name="Emmys16" />
2017	Hugo Award	Doctor Who: "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"	Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form	Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2018		Doctor Who: "Twice Upon a Time"		Template:Nom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Novels

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See also

• Category:Works by Steven Moffat

External links

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• Steven Moffat biography at the Hartswood Films website.
• Audio interview with Steven Moffat at the Doctor Who series two press launch (BBC Wiltshire)