Ian Geoffrey Levine (born 22 June 1953), is an English songwriter, producer, and DJ. A noted moderniser of Northern Soul music in the UK, and a developer of the style of Hi-NRG, he has written and produced records with sales totalling over 40 million. Levine is also a noted fan of the long-running television show Doctor Who.
Acts like Lady Gaga leave me cold because they cynically target a gay audience just as an extra selling point and the music is soulless to me.
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[on the gay scene] I've never seen such a beautiful scene decimated. It was heart-breaking.
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Doctor Who (1963) had eight producers up until 1979. There were always fresh ideas coming in. But in 1980, Nathan-Turner took over and kept going right until the bitter end in 1989. I just hate everything he did to Doctor Who (1963). He's a light entertainment producer and he was inspired by Morecambe (Eric Morecambe) and Wise (Ernie Wise), so he kept putting in guest-stars - Joan Sims, Nicholas Parsons, Beryl Reid... Hale (Gareth Hale) and Pace (Norman Pace)! That really was the final straw. John Nathan-Turner is the man who single-handedly killed Doctor Who (1963).
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Fact
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Levine has been an enthusiast for television since he was young and in the 1970s he owned one of the early domestic video recorders, a Philips N1500. He used this to make numerous recordings from television, some of which are now rarities. Some of his rare recordings have been used for Doctor Who (1963) DVD releases, such as the appearance of Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen on Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976) in 1976, an episode which the BBC did not keep a copy of, and the restoration of the original cliff-hanger to Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin: Part Three (1976), which was edited from the BBC's original master tape after a complaint from Mary Whitehouse.
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He is a big fan of the television series Doctor Who (1963) and has collected numerous rarities and items of memorabilia connected to the series. He was also used by producer John Nathan-Turner in the 1980s as an advisor on continuity for the series.
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He is often credited as an influential figure in bringing to an end the BBC's policy in the 1970s of wiping episodes of Doctor Who (1963) and other popular series. In 1978 he discovered Doctor Who: The Dead Planet (1963) at BBC Enterprises, where it was marked for destruction. By this time, the BBC had already purged hundreds of episodes of Doctor Who (1963), but the BBC ended the policy the same year and established a new archiving policy which preserved all episodes the BBC had left and enabled future repeat showings, as well as commercial releases on video cassette and DVD.
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The characterization of the Abzorbaloff monster played by Peter Kay in Doctor Who: Love & Monsters (2006) was based on Levine and reflects his role in fandom.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ian Levine: Shada
2013
Video producer - animation segment
Ian Levine: Downtime Redux
2013
Video producer
Ian Levine: Mission to the Unknown
2010
Video short executive producer
Genesis of a Classic
2006
Video documentary producer
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
2006
Video documentary short producer
Over the Edge: The Story of the Edge of Destruction
2006
Video documentary short producer
Downtime
1995
Video associate producer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ian Levine: Shada
2013
Video
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
2012
Video short
Genesis of a Classic
2006
Video documentary
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
2006
Video documentary short
Over the Edge: The Story of the Edge of Destruction
2006
Video documentary short
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Edge of Seventeen
1998
writer: "High Energy", "So Many Men, So Little Time"
Kiss Me, Guido
1997
writer: "So Many Men, So Little Time"
Top of the Pops
1984-1996
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
EastEnders
1985
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ian Levine: Shada
2013
Video additional contribution
Ian Levine: Downtime Redux
2013
Video additional material
Doctor Who
1985
TV Series story - 1 episode
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Discomania
2004
TV Movie documentary
Downtime
1995
Video
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Native Hue of Resolution
2013
Documentary archive
Doctor Who
1983
TV Series program consultant - 1 episode
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
1981
TV Movie composer: title music
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Native Hue of Resolution
2013
Documentary thanks
Into the Unknown: The Making of 'Underworld'
2010
Video documentary short with thanks
Anti-Matter from Amsterdam
2007
Video documentary short thanks
A New Body at Last
2007
Video documentary thanks
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
2002
Documentary special thanks
Resistance Is Useless
1992
TV Movie documentary thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Northern Soul: Living for the Weekend
2014
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Northern Soul DJ
The Native Hue of Resolution
2013
Documentary
Himself - Doctor Who Fan & Record Producer
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012
Documentary
Himself
Rediscovering 'The Urge to Live'
2012
Video documentary short
Himself
The Joy of Disco
2012
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The End of the Line?
2011
Video documentary short
Himself: Viewer 1963-Present
The Cold War
2009
Video documentary short
Himself - Continuity Advisor
Trials and Tribulations
2008
Video documentary
Himself
Celebration
2008
Video documentary
Himself
The Depths
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
Soul Britannia
2007
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Putting the Shock Into 'Earthshock'
2003
Video documentary short
Himself
Doctor Who: The Missing Years
1998
Video documentary
Himself
Missing in Action
1993
TV Short documentary
Himself
Doctor Who: 30 Years in the Tardis
1993
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Entertainment Express
1993
TV Series documentary
Himself
Did You See..?
1987
TV Series documentary
Himself
Known for movies
Ian Levine: Shada (2013) as Producer
The Joy of Disco (2012) as Himself
The End of the Line? (2011) as Himself: Viewer 1963-Present
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS (2006) as Producer
$800,000
