PART 1
To date, 100 men and women have directed TV’s Doctor Who. Last year, Sleep NoMore and Face the Raven’s Justin Molotnikov became the 100th. The first was Waris Hussein, who, in 1963, directed Doctor Who’s inaugural four-part serial, then the following year’s Marco Polo. In 2004, I interviewed Waris for DWM. “A director,” he said, “has to be more than just somebody who tells the cameraman what to do, tells the technicians how to deal with things; I had to be a psychiatrist, a doctor, a best friend, a lawyer. Doctor Who taught me a hell of a lot about how to direct. In a funny way, we were pioneers. I’m proud of that. If I could make something like Doctor Who work, well, it was easy street on everything else.”