Studio lighting

Studio lighting and lighting were credits for people who were in fact lighting directors during the 1963 version of Doctor Who. However, sometimes they were just credited on the first and last parts of a serial.

They were responsible for devising and implementing a lighting plan for episodes, but had no direct control over the camera operators, as do modern directors of photography. As with most other behind-the-scenes personnel of that era, lighting directors were not employed by the Doctor Who production office, but were BBC employees who floated around the many programmes in production as ordered by the head of the BBC lighting department. Nevertheless, directors and producers could request specific lighting directors to light their programmes.

In modern BBC Wales Doctor Who, the lighting director has two rough analogues. In that the lighting director was responsible for creating a broad lighting plan, he had one of the two main functions of the modern director of photography. However, as he often physically hung lights and otherwise actually executed that plan, it would not be unreasonable to compare some of his responsibilities to those of a gaffer.

In the early days, because of the studio-bound nature of the original Doctor Who, the lighting director was actually much closer to being a theatrical lighting designer than a modern cinematographer.

Season 1

• An Unearthly Child - Geoff Shaw
• The Daleks - Geoff Shaw and John Treays
• The Edge of Destruction - Dennis Channon
• Marco Polo - John Treays
• The Keys of Marinus - Peter Murray
• The Aztecs - Howard King
• The Sensorites - Peter Murray
• The Reign of Terror - Howard King

Season 2

• Planet of Giants - Howard King
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth - Howard King
• The Rescue - Howard King
• The Romans - Howard King
• The Web Planet - Ralph Walton
• The Crusade - Ralph Walton
• The Space Museum - Howard King
• The Chase - Howard King
• The Time Meddler - Ralph Walton

Season 3

• Galaxy 4 - Derek Hobday and Ralph Walton
• Mission to the Unknown - Ralph Walton
• The Myth Makers - Ralph Walton
• The Daleks' Master Plan - Geoff Shaw
• The Massacre - Dennis Channon
• The Ark - Howard King
• The Celestial Toymaker - Frank Cresswell
• The Gunfighters - George Summers
• The Savages - Graham Sothcott
• The War Machines - George Summers

Season 4

• The Smugglers - Cyril Wilkins
• The Tenth Planet - Howard King
• The Power of the Daleks - Graham Sothcott
• The Highlanders - Ken MacGregor and George Summers
• The Underwater Menace - George Summers
• The Moonbase - Dave Sydenham
• The Macra Terror - Frank Cresswell
• The Faceless Ones - Howard King
• The Evil of the Daleks - Wally Whitmore

Season 5

• The Tomb of the Cybermen - Graham Sothcott
• The Abominable Snowmen - Howard King
• The Ice Warriors - Sam Neeter
• The Enemy of the Word - Howard King
• The Web of Fear - Clive Leighton
• Fury from the Deep - Sam Neeter
• The Wheel in Space - Mike Jefferies

Season 6

• The Dominators - Sam Neeter
• The Mind Robber - Howard King
• The Invasion - Robbie Robinson
• The Krotons - Howard King
• The Seeds of Death - Howard King
• The Space Pirates - Peter Winn
• The War Games - Howard King

Season 7

• Doctor Who and the Silurians - Ralph Walton
• The Ambassadors of Death - Geoff Shaw, Dave Sydenham and Ralph Walton
• Inferno - John Green

Season 8

• Terror of the Autons - Eric Monk
• The Mind of Evil - Eric Monk
• The Claws of Axos - Ralph Walton
• Colony in Space - Ralph Walton
• The Dæmons - Ralph Walton

Season 9

• Day of the Daleks - Alan Horne
• The Curse of Peladon - Howard King
• The Sea Devils - Mike Jefferies
• The Mutants - Frank Cresswell
• The Time Monster - Derek Hobday

Season 10

• The Three Doctors - Clive Thomas
• Carnival of Monsters - Clive Thomas
• Frontier in Space - Ralph Walton
• Planet of the Daleks - Derek Slee
• The Green Death - Mike Jefferies

Season 11

• The Time Warrior - Mike Jefferies
• Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Alan Horne
• Death to the Daleks - Derek Slee
• The Monster of Peladon - Ralph Walton
• Planet of the Spiders - Ralph Walton

Season 12

• Robot - Nigel Wright
• The Ark in Space - Nigel Wright
• Genesis of the Daleks - Duncan Brown
• Revenge of the Cybermen - Derek Slee

Season 13

• Terror of the Zygons - John Dixon
• Planet of Evil - Brian Clemett
• Pyramids of Mars - Ron Koplick
• The Android Invasion - Duncan Brown
• The Brain of Morbius - Peter Catlett
• The Seeds of Doom - John Dixon

Season 14

• The Masque of Mandragora - Dennis Channon
• The Hand of Fear - Derek Slee
• The Deadly Asassin - Brian Clemett
• The Face of Evil - Derek Slee
• The Robots of Death - Duncan Brown
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Mike Jefferies

Season 15

• Horror of Fang Rock - Bob Gell
• The Invisible Enemy - Brian Clemett
• Image of the Fendahl - Jim Purdie
• The Sun Makers - Derek Slee
• Underworld - Mike Jefferies
• The Invasion of Time - Mike Jefferies

Season 16

• The Ribos Operation - Jim Purdie
• The Pirate Planet - Mike Jefferies
• The Stones of Blood - Warwick Fielding
• The Androids of Tara - Brian Clemett
• The Power of Kroll - Warwick Fielding
• The Armageddon Factor - Mike Jefferies

Season 17

• Destiny of the Daleks - John Dixon
• City of Death - Mike Jefferies
• The Creature from the Pit - Warwick Fielding
• Nightmare of Eden - Warwick Fielding
• The Horns of Nimon - Nigel Wright
• Shada - Mike Jefferies

Season 18

• The Leisure Hive - Duncan Brown
• Meglos - Bert Postlethwaite
• Full Circle - Mike Jefferies
• State of Decay - Bert Postlethwaite
• Warriors' Gate - John Dixon
• The Keeper of Traken - Don Babbage
• Logopolis - Henry Barber

Season 19

• Castrovalva - Ron Bristow
• Four to Doomsday - Don Babbage
• Kinda - Mike Jefferies
• The Visitation - Henry Barber
• Black Orchid - Fred Wright
• Earthshock - Fred Wright
• Time-Flight - Eric Wallis

Season 20

• Arc of Infinity - Don Babbage
• Snakedance - Henry Barber
• Mawdryn Undead - Don Babbage
• Terminus - Sam Barclay
• Enlightenment - Fred Wright
• The King's Demons - Peter Smee
• The Five Doctors - Don Babbage

Season 21

• Warriors of the Deep - Peter Smee
• The Awakening - Peter Catlett
• Frontios - John Summers
• Resurrection of the Daleks - Ron Bristow
• Planet of Fire - John Summers
• The Caves of Androzani - Don Babbage
• The Twin Dilemma - Don Babbage

Season 22

• Attack of the Cybermen - Henry Barber
• Vengeance on Varos - Dennis Channon
• The Mark of the Rani - Don Babbage
• The Two Doctors - Don Babbage
• Timelash - Henry Barber
• Revelation of the Daleks - Don Babbage

Season 23

• The Trial of a Time Lord

The Mysterious Planet - Mike Jefferies

Mindwarp - Don Babbage

Terror of the Vervoids - Don Babbage

The Ultimate Foe - Don Babbage

Season 24

• Time and the Rani - Henry Barber
• Paradise Towers - Henry Barber
• Dragonfire - Don Babbage

Season 25

• Remembrance of the Daleks - Henry Barber
• The Happiness Patrol - Don Babbage
• The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - Don Babbage and Henry Barber

Season 26

• Battlefield - David Lock
• Ghost Light - Henry Barber

Dimensions in Time

• Dimensions in Time - David Wells