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George Spenton-Foster

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
0

Gender
Male

Birthday
November 11, 1926 (99 years old)

Place of Birth
Lambeth, London, England, UK

George Spenton-Foster

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

Directing

1980Cribb...Director
1978Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation...Director
1978Blake's 7...Director
1977Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl...Director
1975Survivors...Director
1974The Perils Of Pendragon...Director
1973Sutherland's Law...Director
1972The Man Outside...Director
1972The Brothers...Director
1972The Regiment...Director
1971Barlow...Director
1970The Link Men...Director
1969Paul Temple...Director
1966Lambda 1...Director
1966Thirteen Against Fate...Director
1966The Sugar Cubes...Director
1965The Counterfeit Man...Director
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre...Director
1965Out of the Unknown...Director
1965Londoners...Director
1963Doctor Who...Director
1962Dr. Finlay's Casebook...Director
1962Z-Cars...Director
1960Coronation Street...Director
1960Sunday-Night Play...Director

Production

1967The Prophet...Associate Producer
1966Satisfaction Guaranteed...Associate Producer
1966Walk's End...Associate Producer
1966Too Many Cooks...Associate Producer
1966The Fastest Draw...Associate Producer
1966Tunnel Under the World...Associate Producer
1966The Eye...Associate Producer
1966The World in Silence...Associate Producer
1966Second Childhood...Associate Producer
1966Level Seven...Associate Producer
1965The Midas Plague...Associate Producer
1965Thirteen to Centaurus...Associate Producer
1965Some Lapse of Time...Associate Producer
1965Andover and the Android...Associate Producer
1965The Fox and the Forest...Associate Producer
1965Sucker Bait...Associate Producer
1965Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?...Associate Producer
1965Time in Advance...Associate Producer
1965The Dead Past...Associate Producer
1965Stranger in the Family...Associate Producer
1965The Counterfeit Man...Associate Producer
1965Out of the Unknown...Associate Producer
1964Theatre 625...Producer

Acting