George Spenton-Foster
- Directing
- November 11, 1926 · Lambeth, London, England, UK
- December 26, 1993
Biography
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. 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". 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Cribb · Director
- Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation · Director
- Blake's 7 · Director
- Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl · Director
- Survivors · Director
- The Perils Of Pendragon · Director
- Sutherland's Law · Director
- The Man Outside · Director
- The Brothers · Director
- The Regiment · Director
- Barlow · Director
- The Link Men · Director
- Paul Temple · Director
- Boy Meets Girl · Producer, Creator
- The Prophet · Associate Producer
- Satisfaction Guaranteed · Associate Producer
- Walk's End · Associate Producer
- Too Many Cooks · Associate Producer
- The Fastest Draw · Associate Producer
- Tunnel Under the World · Associate Producer
- The Eye · Associate Producer
- The World in Silence · Associate Producer
- Second Childhood · Associate Producer
- Level Seven · Associate Producer
- Lambda 1 · Director
- Thirteen Against Fate · Director
- The Sugar Cubes · Director
- The Midas Plague · Associate Producer
- Thirteen to Centaurus · Associate Producer
- Some Lapse of Time · Associate Producer
- Andover and the Android · Associate Producer
- The Fox and the Forest · Associate Producer
- Sucker Bait · Associate Producer
- Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? · Associate Producer
- Time in Advance · Associate Producer
- The Dead Past · Associate Producer
- Stranger in the Family · Associate Producer
- The Counterfeit Man · Director, Associate Producer
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Director
- Out of the Unknown · Director, Associate Producer
- Londoners · Director
- Theatre 625 · Producer
- Doctor Who · Director
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook · Director
- Z-Cars · Director
- Coronation Street · Director
- Sunday-Night Play · Director