Tony Oxley

Tony Oxley designed the visual effects for "The Ark in Space" and "The Sontaran Experiment." His other credits include The Good Life and Are You Being Served?

Oxley had had a fascination with machinery since childhood. He joined the BBC as a visual effects design assistant, after which his contributions to Doctor Who and other programmes led to a freelance contract position as special properties designer for the television network. This however ended with new management changes at the BBC. Sadly, Mr. Oxley died in early 2006. The biographical notes just made are from an obituary writen by Michaeljohn Harris which appreared in the BBC's internal magazine, Ariel.