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Camfield later sought to get producer Philip Hinchcliffe to commission a script idea of his own for the programme. This involved aliens and the [[French]] Foreign Legion and would have killed off the character of [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Changing Time]]'') However, this story was not produced and Sarah left the programme quite alive in ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''.
Camfield later sought to get producer Philip Hinchcliffe to commission a script idea of his own for the programme. This involved aliens and the [[French]] Foreign Legion and would have killed off the character of [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. ([[DOC]]: ''[[Changing Time]]'') However, this story was not produced and Sarah left the programme quite alive in ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''.


Camfield was married to the actress [[Sheila Dunn]], whom he cast in ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' as [[Blossom Lefavre]], ''The Invasion'' as a [[Phone operator (The Invasion)|Phone Operator]] and ''Inferno'' as Dr [[Petra Williams]].  
Camfield was married to the actress [[Sheila Dunn]], whom he cast in ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' as [[Blossom Lefavre]], ''The Invasion'' as a [[Phone operator (The Invasion)|Phone Operator]] and ''Inferno'' as Dr [[Petra Williams]].


According to [[Ian Fairbairn]] in the DVD documentary ''[[Podshock]]'', some time after directing ''The Seeds of Doom'', Dunn demanded that Camfield stop directing ''Doctor Who'', as she felt it placed him under too much strain. The couple were near {{w|Ely Cathedral}} at the time of the conversation, and so Camfield went into the cathedral and swore on the high altar that he would not do another ''Doctor Who'' story — an oath which he kept.
According to [[Ian Fairbairn]] in the DVD documentary ''[[Podshock]]'', some time after directing ''The Seeds of Doom'', Dunn demanded that Camfield stop directing ''Doctor Who'', as she felt it placed him under too much strain. The couple were near {{w|Ely Cathedral}} at the time of the conversation, and so Camfield went into the cathedral and swore on the high altar that he would not do another ''Doctor Who'' story — an oath which he kept.
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