David Maloney

David Maloney first worked for Doctor Who as a production assistant during season 2. By the late Troughton era, he had taken the BBC's directorial course, and was entrusted with the plurality of that seasons episodes. Because he helmed The War Games, he is one of of an elite number of directors to offer his own representation of the regenerative process.

He also worked as a producer, overseeing the first three seasons of another popular BBC science-fiction series, Blake's 7, during the late 1970s and early 80s. He also produced the BBC's famous 1981 adaptation of John Wyndham's novel Day of the Triffids.

Maloney provided commentary for the March 2006 DVD release of "Genesis of the Daleks," which he directed, and for which he also rewrote the opening scene into a more violent version which displeased both writer Terry Nation and morals activist Mary Whitehouse. He also directed The Deadly Assassin, which featured a drowning scene that was also criticized as excessive by Whitehouse.

In 1977, Maloney appeared in "Whose Doctor Who," an installment of The Lively Arts news programme which addressed the criticisms leveled by Whitehouse and others about the show allegedly being too intense for younger viewers. He died on 18th July 2006.

As production assistant

 * ''The Rescue
 * ''The Romans

As director

 * ''The Mind Robber
 * ''The Krotons
 * ''The War Games
 * ''Frontier in Space (with Paul Bernard)
 * ''Planet of the Daleks
 * ''Genesis of the Daleks
 * ''Planet of Evil
 * ''The Deadly Assassin
 * ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Interviews and commentaries

 * ''Adventures in Space and Time
 * ''Carnival of Monsters
 * ''The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
 * "The Lively Arts" - ''Whose Doctor Who