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name: "Pete McTighe"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 November 1972"
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updated: "2026-09-18T10:48:30.050445+00:00"
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# Pete McTighe

Writer. Born 1 November 1972 in UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 November 1972, UK
- **Also known as:** Peter McTighe
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_McTighe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7172147, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3226773/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1479008

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md) (78)

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## Biography

Pete McTighe (also credited as Peter McTighe) is a British and Australian screenwriter and producer. Born in the United Kingdom in November 1972, he moved to Australia and studied film and television at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. He began his television career writing for series including *Neighbours* and *EastEnders* before creating and serving as originating writer on the prison drama *Wentworth* (2013–2020), for which he wrote 27 episodes across eight seasons.

McTighe created the BBC mystery thriller *The Pact* (2021–2022) and has written episodes of *A Discovery of Witches* (2018), *The Rising* (2021), *Clickbait* (2021) and *Nowhere Boys* (2013). He has written three episodes of *Doctor Who* (2005): "Kerblam!" (2018), "Praxeus" (co-written with Chris Chibnall, 2020) and "Lucky Day" (2025). He co-wrote and executive produced the *Doctor Who* spin-off *The War Between the Land and the Sea* (2025). He has received five Australian Writers Guild Award nominations and one Welsh BAFTA nomination.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (2005), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The War Between the Land and the Sea* (2025), series, Writer
- *Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor vs. The Daleks* (2025), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Doctor Who Escape Room: Team Third Doctor* (2025), Consulting Producer
- *Doctor Who* (2024), series, Writer
- *Doctor Who: Leela vs. The Time War* (2024), Director, Writer
- *Tales of the Tardis* (2023), series, Writer
- *Doctor Who: The Passenger* (2023), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who: Defenders of Earth!* (2023), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who: The Storyteller* (2022), Writer, Director
- *The Rising* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Doctor Who: The Eternal Mystery* (2022), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who: Risen* (2021), Writer, Director
- *Clickbait* (2021), series, Writer
- *The Pact* (2021), series, Writer, Creator
- *Doctor Who: 24 Carat* (2021), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who: Return of the Autons* (2020), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who: Home Assistant* (2020), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who: The Promise* (2019), Writer, Director
- *Doctor Who: The Trial* (2019), Writer
- *Doctor Who: Hello Boys!* (2019), Writer
- *Doctor Who: Galactic Glitter* (2018), Writer
- *A Discovery of Witches* (2018), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines* (2018), Writer
- *Celblok H* (2014), series, Original Story
- *Nowhere Boys* (2013), series, Writer
- *Wentworth* (2013), series, Writer
- *The Doctor Blake Mysteries* (2013), series, Writer
- *Tricky Business* (2012), series, Writer
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)

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