Danny Hargreaves is a special effects supervisor. He has worked extensively on Doctor Who beginning with the first Russell T Davies era, and also The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood. He is a frequent interviewee on Doctor Who Confidential and Torchwood Declassified. He was even one of the rare backstage people to appear on Totally Doctor Who. As a result of these appearances, he has become the de facto "public face" of Doctor Who SFX.
His personal credits have largely vanished in the Steven Moffat era, but by the 2022 Centenary Special The Power of the Doctor, his company, Real SFX, was very much still involved in the process of making Doctor Who, and also worked on Class. In 2023, he was again credited as SFX supervisor at the start of the second Russell T Davies era.
Other projects he worked on included Wizards vs. Aliens (created by Davies and Phil Ford), Cucumber (by Davies) and Sherlock (created by Mark Gatiss and Moffat).
Credits[]
SFX supervisor[]
- Children of Earth: Day One
- Children of Earth: Day Three
- Children of Earth: Day Two
- The Doctor's Daughter
- The Fires of Pompeii
- Forest of the Dead
- The Giggle
- Invasion of the Bane
- Journey's End
- Last of the Time Lords
- Midnight
- Partners in Crime
- The Poison Sky
- Silence in the Library
- The Sontaran Stratagem
- The Sound of Drums
- The Star Beast
- The Stolen Earth
- Voyage of the Damned
- Wild Blue Yonder
SFX technician[]
- The Age of Steel
- Army of Ghosts
- Blink
- Doomsday
- Evolution of the Daleks
- The Family of Blood
- Fear Her
- The Girl in the Fireplace
- Human Nature
- The Idiot's Lantern
- The Lazarus Experiment
- Love & Monsters
- Rise of the Cybermen
Documentary appearances[]
Doctor Who Confidential[]
- Script to Screen
- The Fright Stuff
- Meet Martha Jones
- Making Manhattan
- Bad Blood
- 'Ello, 'Ello, 'Ello
- The Saxon Mystery
- The Italian Job
- Send in the Clones
- Sontar-Ha!
- Sins of the Fathers
- Shadow Play
- Here Come the Girls
- End of an Era
- Confidential Christmas 2008
- Desert Storm
- Is There Life on Mars?
- Call Me the Doctor
- Eyes Wide Open
- Death in Venice
- Arthurian Legend
- After Effects
- What Goes on Tour...
- Alien Abduction
- Ship Ahoy!
- Double Trouble
- The Born Identity
- River Runs Wild
- About a Boy
- Open All Hours
DVD and Blu-ray[]
Behind the Scenes[]
- The Crimson Horror
- Wild Blue Yonder: Behind the Scenes
Behind the Lens[]
Doctor Who Extra[]
- Robot of Sherwood
- The Caretaker
- Dark Water
- Death in Heaven
- Water, water, everywhere...
- The Fireball
- Through fire and flame
- The Finale Falls
Series 11 Documentaries[]
Closer Look[]
- Ascension of the Cybermen
