George Spenton-Foster
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.
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Movies (25)
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978 · Director
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
1977 · Director
The Prophet
1967 · Associate Producer
Satisfaction Guaranteed
1966 · Associate Producer
Walk's End
1966 · Associate Producer
Too Many Cooks
1966 · Associate Producer
The Fastest Draw
1966 · Associate Producer
Tunnel Under the World
1966 · Associate Producer
The Eye
1966 · Associate Producer
The World in Silence
1966 · Associate Producer
Second Childhood
1966 · Associate Producer
Level Seven
1966 · Associate Producer
Lambda 1
1966 · Director
The Sugar Cubes
1966 · Director
The Midas Plague
1965 · Associate Producer
Thirteen to Centaurus
1965 · Associate Producer
Some Lapse of Time
1965 · Associate Producer
Andover and the Android
1965 · Associate Producer
The Fox and the Forest
1965 · Associate Producer
Sucker Bait
1965 · Associate Producer
Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?
1965 · Associate Producer
Time in Advance
1965 · Associate Producer
The Dead Past
1965 · Associate Producer
Stranger in the Family
1965 · Associate Producer
The Counterfeit Man
1965 · Director, Associate Producer
TV shows (22)
Cribb
1980 · Director
Blake's 7
1978 · Director
Survivors
1975 · Director
The Perils Of Pendragon
1974 · Director
Sutherland's Law
1973 · Director
The Man Outside
1972 · Director
The Brothers
1972 · Director
The Regiment
1972 · Director
Barlow
1971 · Director
The Link Men
1970 · Director
Paul Temple
1969 · Director
Boy Meets Girl
1967 · Producer, Creator
Thirteen Against Fate
1966 · Director
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Director
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Director, Associate Producer
Londoners
1965 · Director
Theatre 625
1964 · Producer
Doctor Who
1963 · Director
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962 · Director
Z-Cars
1962 · Director
Coronation Street
1960 · Director
Sunday-Night Play
1960 · Director