George Spenton-Foster
George Spenton-Foster | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thomas George Spenton 11 November 1926 |
| Died | 26 December 1993 (aged 67) Lambeth, London, England |
| Occupations | Television director and producer |
George Spenton-Foster (11 November 1926 – 26 December 1993) was a British television director and television producer.
Joining the BBC in 1948 as George Spenton, he worked as a call boy on productions including The Quatermass Experiment. A move to production assistant led to a promotion as director in 1963, adopting Spenton-Foster as his professional surname by the mid-sixties.[1]
After producing a few anthology series in his homeland like Thirty-Minute Theatre, he went to Australia in 1968 to produce a short-lived police series The Link Men (1970). For the BBC, Spenton-Foster directed two Doctor Who stories: Image of the Fendahl (1977) and The Ribos Operation (1978). He also directed four Blake's 7 episodes from its second series in 1979: "Weapon", "Pressure Point", "Voice from the Past" and "Gambit".[2]
In late 1982, Spenton-Foster left the Liverpool-based soap opera Brookside four days before it aired because of a disagreement over bad language in the dialogue.[3][4]
References
- ^ Sullivan, Shannon. "George Spenton-Foster". Doctor Who: A Brief History of Time (Travel). Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ^ Muir, John Kenneth (2007). A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television. McFarland. p. 262. ISBN 9781476604541. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
- ^ "New rumpus over Mersey soap opera". Liverpool Echo. 26 November 1982. p. 3. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
- ^ "Time to Adjust the Picture". Liverpool Echo. 29 November 1982. p. 3. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
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