David Maloney
David Maloney first worked for Doctor Who as a production assistant during season 2. By the late Troughton era, he had taken the BBC's directorial course, and was entrusted with the plurality of that seasons episodes. Because he helmed The War Games, he was one of of an elite number of directors to offer his own representation of the regenerative process.
Maloney was at the center of allegations that the show had become too violent during Philip Hinchcliffe's tenure. He rewrote the opening to "Genesis of the Daleks," into a more violent version which displeased both writer Terry Nation and morals activist Mary Whitehouse. His direction of The Deadly Assassin famously featured a drowning scene that was so criticized by Whitehouse that it had to be edited from the videotape master.
In 1977, Maloney appeared in "Whose Doctor Who," an installment of The Lively Arts news programme which addressed the criticisms leveled by Whitehouse and others about the show allegedly being too intense for younger viewers.
After Doctor Who
He also worked as a producer, overseeing the first three seasons of another popular BBC science-fiction series, Blake's 7, during the late 1970s and early 80s. He also produced the BBC's famous 1981 adaptation of John Wyndham's novel Day of the Triffids.
As production assistant
As director
- The Mind Robber
- The Krotons
- The War Games
- Frontier in Space (with Paul Bernard)
- Planet of the Daleks
- Genesis of the Daleks
- Planet of Evil
- The Deadly Assassin
- The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Interviews and commentaries
- Adventures in Space and Time
- Carnival of Monsters
- The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
- "The Lively Arts" - Whose Doctor Who
- DCOM: Genesis of the Daleks
