Michael Imison: Difference between revisions

'''Michael Imison''' (pronounced EYE-miss-on) was born on [[9 February]] [[1935]]. He [[director|directed]] the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[The Ark]]''. Because of this, he was involved in casting [[Jackie Lane]] in the part of [[Dodo Chaplet]]. He also claims to have been responsible for the general visual style of the [[Monoid]]s. In an interview conducted around [[2010]], he said he had hoped that the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] would be able to market the Monoids as they had done the [[Dalek]]s, suggesting he had a financial interest in their success.  

Imison's contract with the BBC was not renewed during the recording of "[[The Bomb]]", which effectively meant that he was fired as he recorded the last episode of ''The Ark'', and he wasn't even told face-to-face; he was simply handed a note informing him of the fact. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Riverside Story]]'')

"[[The Bomb]]" was the last episode of television he ever directed. Immediately after its recording, he became a [[script editor]] in the BBC's Plays Department. However, the executive who had refused to extend his directing contract, [[Gerald Savory]], followed him there, virtually ensuring that his career advancement prospects would be limited. He left the BBC and became an actors', and then literary, agent for the bulk of his thereon remaining career. ([[DCOM]], [[INFO]]: "[[The Bomb]]")