David Maloney

Known for DirectingBorn 1933-12-14Died 2006-07-18Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England, UK

David John Lee Maloney (14 December 1933 – 18 July 2006) was a British television director and producer, best known for his work on the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and The Day of the Triffids. Maloney joined the BBC as a television production assistant and trained to be a director at the corporation. His directing credits included the police series Z-Cars, Softly, Softly: Taskforce and Juliet Bravo, and an adaptation of the Walter Scott novel Ivanhoe (1970). He first worked on Doctor Who as a production assistant to Christopher Barry on the serial The Rescue (1965). He directed eight Doctor Who serials between 1968 and 1977. He became, along with Douglas Camfield, one of producer Philip Hinchcliffe's two favourite directors. He then became the producer of the first three seasons of Blake's 7 (1978–80), which included directing three episodes himself. He left Blake's 7 to produce the last series of When the Boat Comes In (1981). He also produced the BBC's adaptation of John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids (1981). After his work in television drama, Maloney moved to factual programme-making and travelled the world making various documentaries for the ITV contractor Central. Towards the end of his life, he appeared in a number of TV and DVD documentaries about his work on Doctor Who. He also provided DVD commentaries for three of the serials he directed, The Mind Robber (1968), Genesis of the Daleks (1975) and The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977).Read more

Movies & web series

Doctor Who: The War Games

Adventures in Space and Time

Blake's 7: The Beginning

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

Serial Thrillers

Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

The Dalek Tapes

Doctor Who

When the Boat Comes In

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

Softly, Softly

Blake's 7

Maelstrom

Carnival of Monsters

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

Paul Temple

Z-Cars

Doctor Who: The Myth Makers

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

Doctor Who: The Ark

Juliet Bravo

Play for Today

The Day of the Triffids

Doctor Who: The Krotons

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

The Play on One

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

The Last of the Mohicans

Angels

The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

Clowns

Blake's 7: Duel

Blake's 7: Orac

Blake's 7: Aftermath

End of the Line

Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Rolling

Aliens

Bedtime Stories

The Witch's Daughter