Norman Stewart
Episodes Broadcast: 1977-1979
Norman Stewart was born in Canada, and joined the BBC as a production
assistant. It was in this capacity that he first encountered Doctor
Who, working on its second-ever serial, The Daleks, in 1963. Three further
serials featuring William Hartnell as the First Doctor were followed by
one story each for the three subsequent Doctors. The last of these was
1977's The Invisible Enemy for
Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor.
Stewart was also occasionally invited to direct, including several
episodes of the soap opera The Newcomers during the late Sixties.
Soon after his work on The Invisible
Enemy, he returned to Doctor Who to direct the same
season's effects-heavy Underworld, much of which was
filmed against chroma key screens rather than on traditional sets. In
1978, he was again assigned to a technically-complex serial -- this time
The Power Of Kroll, for which
Stewart was given the challenge of presenting the largest monster yet
seen in Doctor Who.
Stewart subsequently directed episodes of The Omega Factor and
Emmerdale Farm, and also served as a production manager on
Bergerac and Tenko. He appears to have left the television
industry around the mid-Eighties, and is now deceased.
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