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.

Filmography of George Spenton-Foster

  • Cribb (1980)
  • Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation (1978)
  • Blake's 7 (1978)
  • Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl (1977)
  • Survivors (1975)
  • The Regiment (1972)
  • The Brothers (1972)
  • Paul Temple (1969)
  • Lambda 1 (1966)
  • Thirteen Against Fate (1966)
  • The Counterfeit Man (1965)
  • Londoners (1965)
  • Out of the Unknown (1965)
  • Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
  • Doctor Who (1963)
  • Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962)
  • Z-Cars (1962)
  • Coronation Street (1960)