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PAUL JOYCE wasn’t able to achieve everything he wanted with Warriors’ Gate, but his groundbreaking direction of the programme, and the controversy surrounding it, have earned him a place in Doctor Who history. He tells MARCUS HEARN about a turbulent few months that cast a long shadow.
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Directing Doctor Who
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Twice Upon a Time
Doctor Who got off to something of a false start in 1963. JONATHAN MORRIS explains how director Waris Hussein seized the opportunity to remake the first episode
Inside the Spaceship
The moment where Barbara enters the TARDIS in
CLOSE-UP
Alan Bennion as Slaar, leader of the Ice
STRAIGHT SHOOTING
GARY HOPKINS recalls highlights of his conversations with the late Douglas Camfield, who made more episodes of Doctor Who than any other director
How To Get Into Television
Camfield with his wife, actress Sheila Dunn. D
The Land of Fiction
DAVID MALONEY was a mainstay of Doctor Who in the 1960s and 70s, responsible for some of the series’ most acclaimed episodes. STUART MANNING appraises an impressive body of work
Something From Nothing
The Mind Robber (1968) was a challenging proposition.
CLOSE-UP
In the back of a police
HOW TO READ A CAMERA SCRIPT
From the 1960s to the 80s, Doctor Who’s directors compiled scripts that served as road maps for recording sessions. As JONATHAN MORRIS explains, deciphering these technical documents can unlock the mysteries of missing episodes…
CLOSE-UP
The Cyber Lieutenant (Mark Hardy) and the
CLOSE-UP
The Dalek Emperor in The Parting of the
LIGHT YEARS
One of a director’s most important collaborators is the cinematographer. NEIL OSEMAN describes how the job, and the tools used to complete it, have evolved over Doctor Who’s history
OB, OR NOT OB
O ne drawback of shooting on film was
DIMENSIONS IN SPACE
Director of photography Neville Kidd. The Daleks
Between the Lines
Christopher Barry’s meticulous preparations to direct The Rescue reveal a process where the director can also act as writer and story editor. MARCUS HEARN follows the paper trail…
DIRECTORS
The 1960s
Doctor Who’s black-and-white episodes were locked in to a system of electronic studio recording that was ill-suited to the programme’s scope and ambition. However, as OLIVER WAKE explains, the best directors were still able to create remarkable television
Christopher Barry
C hristopher Barry was one of Doctor Who’s
The 1970s
TIM WORTHINGTON describes the challenges faced by Doctor Who’s directors in a decade where not every problem proved surmountable…
Let That Sync In
A fter leaving Doctor Who, Barry Letts became
The 1980s
BOB FISCHER takes a fresh look at a decade where new directing talent – and pioneering technology – ensured that the series’ changes were more than just superficial
Beyond Who
I t’s no surprise that some of Doctor
The 2000s
Television drama production had transformed by the time Doctor Who returned to screens in 2005. New techniques gave the series’ directors unprecedented freedom, as EDDIE ROBSON explains
The 1990s
B arring a couple of mini-episodes produced for
The 2010s
ALISTAIR McGOWN appraises a decade of diverse styles and stories, all benefitting from a new generation of highly sophisticated cameras
Hot Shots
Ashildr (Maisie Williams) in a sequence from The
The 2020s
The most recent series of Doctor Who was the twelfth since the show was resurrected, and the 38th since it began back in 1963. However, as EMMA REEVES highlights, directors are still finding ways to tell stories in unusual and inventive ways
THE DWM INTERVIEW
Trial by Television
The earliest weeks of Doctor Who’s production proved to be a valuable test of relationships – as well as the programme’s format. PATRICK MULKERN takes WARIS HUSSEIN, the series’ first director, on a journey back to those uncertain times
FIRST MOVES
William Hartnell in his most famous role prior
The Flip Side
“You want to bet?” asks Royce as Aldo
CANDID CAMERA
In the 1980s, director GRAEME HARPER broke the rules of production with spectacular results on serials such as The Caves of Androzani. He brought the same dynamic approach when he returned to direct David Tennant’s Doctor. “Now we’re all artists,” he tells NICK SETCHFIELD. “We can paint our pictures.”
WHO DO YOU FANCY?
‘‘C asting is everything,” says Graeme, who’s known
IMPOSSIBLE PLANETS
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BROADCHURCH UNITED
J ames also worked on Torchwood (2006-11), Doctor
Post Modern
For DOUGLAS MACKINNON, one of the most prolific directors of 21st-century Doctor Who, lines are getting blurred. “Post-production starts when I first read the script,” he tells BOB FISCHER
EVENT TELEVISION
Peter Capaldi, Alex Kingston and Hydroflax actor Greg
Cutting it Fine
As director RACHEL TALALAY tells SIMON GUERRIER, the finishing line can be surprisingly close to the broadcast…
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These days, there’s a tremendous effort to keep
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