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.
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.
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 Dinosaurs for the Discovery Channel and the feature film Atonement for Working Title Films.
[2] 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.
In July 2008 Tucker was part of the team nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Television Series for his work on the "Strength" episode of Discovery Channel's Human Body - Pushing the Limits.
The book, Illegal Alien, was originally to be based on a script which was in consideration for production had a twenty-seventh season of Doctor Who gone ahead.
Dust Breeding featured the return of the Krill, a race of aliens created for Storm Harvest, and also Bev Tarrent, a character from his previous audio.
Away from Doctor Who fiction he has novelised the Merlin episodes "Valiant", "The Labyrinth of Gedref" and "The Traitor Within" for Random House, co-authored (with Mat Irvine) the History of the BBC Visual Effects Department for Aurum Press and co-authored (with Stephen Nicholas) 'Impossible Worlds' a guide to Doctor Who concept art.