David Maloney

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 sciencefiction series Doctor Who Blakes 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 ZCars 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 Hinchcliffes two favourite directors He then became the producer of the first three seasons of Blakes 7 197880 which included directing three episodes himself He left Blakes 7 to produce the last series of When the Boat Comes In 1981 He also produced the BBCs adaptation of John Wyndhams novel The Day of the Triffids 1981 After his work in television drama Maloney moved to factual programmemaking 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 WengChiang 1977