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Timothy Combe
Timothy Combe (born 17 October 1936) is a retired British television director and actor's agent. As a director of BBC television drama from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, he worked on series such as ''Doctor Who'', ''Z-Cars'' and '' The Brothers'', as well as classic serials and plays. Career Combe attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he won the Shakespeare Cup and Margaret Rutherford Medal. He then joined the BBC in 1962 as an assistant floor manager. He was promoted to become a director in 1968. He directed ''Z-Cars'', the popular and long-running police drama series, becoming one of the most prolific directors of the series. He also directed two serials in the long-running science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' when it starred Jon Pertwee. Although highly regarded as a director by the series' then producer, Barry Letts, he went over-budget on the second and was not asked to do more as a result. Two classic serials, ''The Early Life of Stephen Hin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television Drama
BBC television dramas have been produced and broadcast since even before the public service company had an officially established television broadcasting network in the United Kingdom. As with any major broadcast network, drama forms an important part of its schedule, with many of the BBC's top-rated programmes being from this genre. From the 1950s through to the 1980s the BBC received much acclaim for the range and scope of its drama productions, producing series, serials and plays across a range of genres, from soap opera to Science fiction on television, science-fiction to costume drama, with the 1970s in particular being regarded as a critical and cultural high point in terms of the quality of dramas being produced. In the 1990s, a time of change in the British television industry, the department went through much internal confusion and external criticism, but since the beginning of the 21st century has begun to return to form with a run of critical and popular successes, des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |