Thomas Brock

**Thomas Brock** (born May 4, 1971) was a writer and is now the showrunner of the BBC One show Doctor Who. He has been active since 1991, and has also worked on the newest iteration of "The Kindly Mr. Percival" series.

## Early Life

**Thomas Brock** was born with Autism spectrum disorder in Manchester on May 4, 1971 to Kaitlyn Brock and Edward Brock, and he had three older siblings: Elijah, Alice, and Roy, as well as four younger siblings: Izzie, Lionel, Zoe, and Ruby. Of his siblings, only Alice, Roy and Ruby got much luck in their life goals, Lionel failing his science career, Izzie becoming terminally ill, and Elijah being sent to prison for abuse preformed on Thomas and his other younger siblings. Eventually, Thomas turned to three passions: writing, art, and music. After a short career of music with some mediocre songs, and a good run of art, he eventually decided to move on to writing.

## The 1990s

In 1994, during the height of Season 31, Thomas Brock joined the crew as a writer for a few episodes, including Halloween, which introduced the companions Millie Malencia, Samuel Loomis and Laurie Strode. However, due to poor reception of his first few episodes, and after that some mental problems on set, he left the set of Doctor Who.

## Outside Doctor Who again

After turbulence on set, he essentially fired himself, and moved to a house in Sheffield. While on vacation in the Scottish Marshlands in 1995, he reunited with a school friend, Clare Lily Roberts, in a local pub, and eventually they were married. In 1998 they had two sons, Nathan and Gregory. In 2002, Thomas resumed writing again and they moved into a manor, and while there Clara and Thomas had a daughter, Melissa, and another son, Alex. Nathan wanted more sisters so eventually Nevaeh and Phoenix were born in the summer of 2004. By this point, Thomas' youngest sibling, Ruby, had advanced her career to where she was quite famous as an actress. On occasion, she suggested Thomas write her movies, but due to his mediocrity this failed and she had to give up. By 2008, Doctor Who was becoming more popular since its' dark ages, and more people were going to watch the show. Even Thomas' sons had eventually made a group to watch Doctor Who with, consisting of nine other boys. Some believe it was due to this that a year later Nathan turned bisexual.

By 2011, during the panic where it was thought the world would end, raiders stormed the Brock mansion, destroying valuables, causing some of the children to run outside. Although most returned, Gregory did not, and was never found. This made his father very furious, but eventually Clara would calm him down. Later that year, he would begin working on The Walking Dead, and would be writing that show until 2017, when he stopped to work on the much more popular Stranger Things. Around this time, Nathan moved out and got married to a non-binary person named Olive. Eventually, when Season 4 of Stranger Things did not release in 2020 as planned, and COVID-19 messed up the schedules of many of his TV shows, Thomas looked for other writing oppurtunities.

## The 2020s

Once Season 57 of Doctor Who rolled around, the runs of the previous three showrunners (Russel T. Davies, Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall) had run their course and some fans created a petition to get Brock involved again. After some hesitation, he rejoined the set and immediatley picked up the pieces, by killing off Loomis and writing Strode back into the story, while also killing off the Fifteenth Doctor. After some mixed response, higherups at the BBC were hesitant to give Brock another run, but eventually, his writing got better.

Especially in 2021, when "The Kindly Mr. Percival - And The Seven Lively Good Deeds" remake was released, his rewrite was found to be very impressive, which immediatley launched it's two sequels for the following years. After a few months, he became the head showrunner and has kept a good job of releasing seasons quickly.