Michael Pickwoad
Michael Pickwoad (born 11th July 1945) is a production designer for Doctor Who whose work began with A Christmas Carol. He replaced Edward Thomas, marking the first changeover at the helm of the art department, since Rose.
He is the son of Doctor Who guest actor, William Mervyn. (CON: Christmas Special 2010)
Career history
Pickwoad's career began in the early 1970s, and he has worked steadily since — first as an art director, and, beginning in 1986, as a production designer. One of his very earliest jobs as the full production designer was Withnail and I, the film which was significant to the careers of both Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. He went on to design another Grant vehicle, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, which additionally starred Richard Wilson. By the turn of the 1990s he had begun to head the art departments of ongoing television programmes, such as when he deigned the initial series of the Dawn French mystery-comedy, Murder Most Horrid, or a substantial number of episodes for the John Thaw legal drama, Kavanagh Q.C..
