Episodes Broadcast: 1977-1978

George Spenton -- as he was originally credited -- joined the BBC in 1948 as a call boy, working on programmes such as Nigel Kneale's original The Quatermass Experiment. He became a production assistant before earning a promotion to director in 1963, and gained early experience on shows like the BBC Sunday-Night Play and Dr Finlay's Casebook. By the mid-Sixties, he had adopted George Spenton-Foster as his professional name. He was both a director and associate producer for Out Of The Unknown, and spent the latter part of the Sixties working chiefly as a producer, including on Theatre 625, Thirty-Minute Theatre and Boy Meets Girl.

Spenton-Foster's last credit as a producer came in 1970, on The Link Men. Directing was his focus for the majority of the decade, with contributions to Paul Temple, Survivors and Z Cars amongst others. In 1973, Spenton-Foster handled two episodes of Sutherland's Law, for which Graham Williams was the script editor. When Williams became the producer of Doctor Who, he recruited Spenton-Foster for two serials featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, beginning with 1977's Image Of The Fendahl. On The Ribos Operation in 1978, Spenton-Foster played a key role in the casting of Mary Tamm as Romana.

Spenton-Foster's latter work included episodes of Blake's 7 and Cribb. He also worked as a dialogue supervisor on the 1980 historical war film Lion Of The Desert. In 1982, Spenton-Foster left the soap opera Brookside just before its debut after objecting to the inclusion of bad language. It does not appear that he worked again in television, and alcoholism reportedly led to his death some time afterwards.