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George Spenton-Foster
Lambeth, London, England, UK
George Spenton-Foster (11 November 1926 – 26 December 1993) was a British television director and television producer. Joining the BBC in 1948 as George Spenton, he worked as a c…
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George Spenton-Foster (11 November 1926 – 26 December 1993) was a British television director and television producer. Joining the BBC in 1948 as George Spenton, he worked as a call boy on productions including The Quatermass Experiment. A move to production assistant led to a promotion as director in 1963, adopting Spenton-Foster as his professional surname by the mid-sixties. After producing a few anthology series in his homeland, like Thirty-Minute Theatre, he went to Australia in 1968 to produce a short-lived police series, The Link Men (1970). For the BBC, Spenton-Foster directed two Doctor Who stories: Image of the Fendahl (1977) and The Ribos Operation (1978). He also directed four Blake's 7 episodes from its second series in 1979: "Weapon", "Pressure Point", "Voice from the Past" and "Gambit". In late 1982, Spenton-Foster left the Liverpool-based soap opera Brookside four days before it aired because of a disagreement over bad language in the dialogue.
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1980
Cribb
TV show Director
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1978
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Movie Director
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1978
Blake's 7
TV show Director
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1977
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
Movie Director
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1975
Survivors
TV show Director
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1974
The Perils Of Pendragon
TV show Director
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1973
Sutherland's Law
TV show Director
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1972
The Man Outside
TV show Director
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1972
The Brothers
TV show Director
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1972
The Regiment
TV show Director
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1971
Barlow
TV show Director
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1970
The Link Men
TV show Director
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1969
Paul Temple
TV show Director
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1967
Boy Meets Girl
TV show Producer
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1967
The Prophet
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
Walk's End
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
Too Many Cooks
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
The Fastest Draw
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
Tunnel Under the World
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
The Eye
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
The World in Silence
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
Second Childhood
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
Level Seven
Movie Associate Producer
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1966
Lambda 1
Movie Director
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1966
Thirteen Against Fate
TV show Director
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1966
The Sugar Cubes
Movie Director
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1965
The Midas Plague
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
Thirteen to Centaurus
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
Some Lapse of Time
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
Andover and the Android
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
The Fox and the Forest
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
Sucker Bait
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
Time in Advance
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
The Dead Past
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
Stranger in the Family
Movie Associate Producer
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1965
The Counterfeit Man
Movie Director
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1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV show Director
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1965
Out of the Unknown
TV show Director
