Darrol Blake

Darrol Blake (born 15 May 1937 ) directed the Doctor Who television story The Stones of Blood. He was later interviewed on the documentary Getting Blood from the Stones.

Blake began as a design assistant on the BBC science fiction series, and then worked as a designer on and.

He later became a director and worked on several episodes of Doomwatch and the children's programme. Blake asked a puppeteer with whom he worked on that show, John Thirtle, and another, unidentified, puppeteer to provide the movements of the Megara in The Stones of Blood.

Outside of Doctor Who, he has also directed Eastenders, Coronation Street, Brookside, Emmerdale and Crossroads.