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Mike Tucker (born South Wales) is a special effects expert who worked for many years at the BBC Television Visual Effects Department, and now works as an Effects Supervisor for his own company, The Model Unit. He is also the author of a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series ''Doctor Who'' and novelisations based on episodes of the television series ''Merlin''. He sometimes co-writes with Robert Perry. ==Effects work== Tucker's early work for the BBC was as a holiday relief assistant on the 1982 history series ''Timewatch''. Following this, he became a full-time member of the BBC Visual Effects Department working on practical effects and models for a range of BBC programmes including ''Casualty'', ''Top of the Pops'', ''EastEnders'', ''The Singing Detective'', ''Proust'' and ''Tomorrow's World'' among many others. He was one of the principal effects crew for ''Red Dwarf'' series 1 - 7 and worked as an effects assistant on the final four series of the original ''Doctor Who''. His association with ''Doctor Who'' continued long after the series was "rested" by the BBC, working on the Children in Need special ''Dimensions in Time''. He became a fully fledged effects supervisor in the early 1990s, handling the effects for shows including ''I Was a Rat'', ''999 International'', ''Raging Planet'' and ''Twister Week''. Starting to specialise in miniature effects he went on to handle model sequences for ''Egypt's Golden Empire'', ''Disasters at Sea'', ''Nelson's Island'', ''Billy and the Fighter Boys'', ''Hiroshima'' and ''The Brighton Bomb''. In 2005, Tucker became the first person who worked on the original series of ''Doctor Who'' to also work on the revived version starring Christopher Eccleston, as model work supervisor, work which continues to the present day. Following the closure of the BBC effects department in 2004 he set up his own company The Model Unit based initially at Ealing Studios before moving on to Wimbledon Studios in 2012. As a result of the closure of Wimbledon Studios in 2014 the company returned to Ealing Studios once more. The Model Unit has contributed miniature effects sequences for varied projects such as the Munich air disaster segment of BBC's ''Surviving Disaster'' series, ''Krakatoa - The Last Days'', also for the BBC, ''Moonshot'' and ''Primeval'' for ITV, ''Human Body - Pushing the Limits'', ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' and ''Last Day of the Dinoaurs'' for the Discovery Channel and the feature film ''Atonement'' for Working Title Films. On 23 November 2013 the BBC Broadcast a special 50th Anniversary episode of ''Doctor Who'', titled "The Day of the Doctor".〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0〕 Mike Tucker's Model Unit was responsible for the miniature effects in the feature length special which was broadcast on BBC One and simultaneously in many countries and up to 1500 cinemas in the UK.〔http://www.doctorwho.tv/watch-the-day-of-the-doctor/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Tucker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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