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'''Christopher Barry''' [[director|directed]] several ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serials, beginning with several episodes of the | '''Christopher Barry''' [[director|directed]] several ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serials, beginning with several episodes of the first [[Dalek]] story. His other [[television]] credits included {{wi|Compact (TV series)|Compact}}, ''Smuggler's Bay'', {{wi|Paul Temple (TV series)|Paul Temple}}, ''[[Z-Cars]]'', {{wi|Poldark (1975 TV series)|Poldark}}, {{wi|The Onedin Line}}, ''[[All Creatures Great and Small (TV series)|All Creatures Great and Small]]'', ''[[Juliet Bravo]]'', {{wi|Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama}} and other [[science fiction]] series, including ''[[Out of the Unknown]]'', {{wi|Moonbase 3}} and {{wi|The Tripods}}. | ||
He was one of only three people to direct ''Doctor Who'' serials featuring [[William Hartnell]], [[Patrick Troughton]], [[Jon Pertwee]] and [[Tom Baker]]; the other two were [[Douglas Camfield]] and [[Lennie Mayne]]. | He was one of only three people to direct ''Doctor Who'' serials featuring [[William Hartnell]], [[Patrick Troughton]], [[Jon Pertwee]] and [[Tom Baker]]; the other two were [[Douglas Camfield]] and [[Lennie Mayne]]. | ||
Revision as of 19:36, 30 March 2018
Christopher Barry directed several Doctor Who serials, beginning with several episodes of the first Dalek story. His other television credits included Compact, Smuggler's Bay, Paul Temple, Z-Cars, Poldark, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Juliet Bravo, Dramarama and other science fiction series, including Out of the Unknown, Moonbase 3 and The Tripods.
He was one of only three people to direct Doctor Who serials featuring William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker; the other two were Douglas Camfield and Lennie Mayne.
He appeared uncredited as the first past Doctor in TV: The Brain of Morbius.
Barry spent his retirement living in Oxfordshire and died on 7 February 2014 following an escalator fall at a shopping centre in Banbury.[1]
Credits
Doctor Who stories directed
- The Daleks (episodes 1, 2, 4, and 5 only)
- The Rescue
- The Romans
- The Savages
- The Power of the Daleks
- The Dæmons
- The Mutants
- Robot
- The Brain of Morbius
- The Creature from the Pit
Bibliography
- The End (published in Drabble Who)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Hayley Dixon and agencies (15 February 2014). Doctor Who director dies after escalator fall. The Telegraph. Retrieved on 16 February 2014.
