David Maloney

Biography

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 I…

Directed

1. Doctor Who (1963) — Director
2. Blake's 7 (1978) — Director
3. Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (1975) — Director
4. Doctor Who: The War Games (1969) — Director
5. Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin (1976) — Director
6. Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977) — Director
7. Play for Today (1970) — Director
8. Doctor Who: The Mind Robber (1968) — Director
9. Doctor Who: The Krotons (1969) — Director
10. Doctor Who: Planet of Evil (1975) — Director
11. Z-Cars (1962) — Director
12. Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour (2024) — Director
13. Juliet Bravo (1980) — Director
14. Doctor Who: Frontier in Space (1973) — Director
15. Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks (1973) — Director
16. Maelstrom (1985) — Director
17. The Last of the Mohicans (1971) — Director
18. Angels (1975) — Director
19. Paul Temple (1969) — Director
20. The Play on One (1988) — Director
21. Softly, Softly (1966) — Director
22. The Newcomers (1965) — Director
23. Ivanhoe (1970) — Director
24. Woodstock (1973) — Director
25. Kim & Co. (1975) — Director
26. Strike it Rich! (1986) — Director
27. Clowns (1989) — Director
28. End of the Line (1984) — Director
29. Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Rolling (1982) — Director
30. Aliens (1982) — Director
31. Blake's 7: Orac (1986) — Director
32. Blake's 7: Aftermath (1986) — Director
33. The Witch's Daughter (1971) — Director
34. Bedtime Stories (1974) — Director
35. Rough Justice (1977) — Director
36. Sentimental Education (1970) — Director
37. Owen, M.D. (1971) — Director
38. Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (1973) — Director
39. Family Pride (1991) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond (1995)
2. Adventures in Space and Time (1999) — Himself
3. Serial Thrillers (2004)
4. Carnival of Monsters (1999)
5. The Dalek Tapes (2006) — Self
6. The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (1995)