He had previously been News Editor for the DWAS' Celestial Toyroom newsletter under Editor Neil Hutchings, contributing additional features to their TARDIS magazine, as well as other fan publications such as Richard Bignell's Private Who, J.Jeremy Bentham's seminal Space & Time/In-Vision part-work and Howe/Stammers/Walker's The Frame. Douglas Camfield - A Tribute — a magazine Philip compiled and edited — was published as the first Special Edition of The Frame in 1990. In 1993, he appeared as Kiv in the BBC's Children-in-Need 30th Anniversary Doctor Who story, Dimensions in Time.