Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2021 17:21:43 GMT
It's been kept quiet by his family till yesterday but Michael Ferguson passed away at 84. One of the few Who directors to work on the first three Doctors he directed The War Machines with Hartnell, Seeds Of Death with Troughton and Ambassadors Of Death and The Claws Of Axos with Pertwee. He was an assistant floor manager as early as The Daleks.
I think you could make a case he twice changed how the show looked. War Machines was the first time the show ever looked contemporary to when it was filmed, while Ambassadors was the first time the show used other ways of showing exposition rather than just have it done by the main cast. We got in story news reports and the like. It feels bigger and more grand because of that. It's maybe the story where the Quatermass influence is strongest.
He also directed and produced the wonderful series The Sandbaggers, directed eps of Colditz and had stints producing The Bill, Casualty and Eastenders.
He was one of the First Doctor alumni asked to make a cameo in An Adventure In Time And Space (he's a party guest when Verity Lambert leaves) and is on the DVDs of the stories he directed. Especially Claws Of Axos which has a 15min doc on Michael's Who stint.
I think you could make a case he twice changed how the show looked. War Machines was the first time the show ever looked contemporary to when it was filmed, while Ambassadors was the first time the show used other ways of showing exposition rather than just have it done by the main cast. We got in story news reports and the like. It feels bigger and more grand because of that. It's maybe the story where the Quatermass influence is strongest.
He also directed and produced the wonderful series The Sandbaggers, directed eps of Colditz and had stints producing The Bill, Casualty and Eastenders.
He was one of the First Doctor alumni asked to make a cameo in An Adventure In Time And Space (he's a party guest when Verity Lambert leaves) and is on the DVDs of the stories he directed. Especially Claws Of Axos which has a 15min doc on Michael's Who stint.
