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 and participated with the audio commentary on the DVD release of The Stones of Blood, as well as shared his memories on the story on the two-part edition of Big Finish's charitable podcast series Toby Hadoke's Who's Round (THWR 196 and THWR 197).

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.