
Directing
Born December 14, 1933 · Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England, UK
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 science-fiction series Doctor Who, Blake's 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 Z-Cars, 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 Hinchcliffe's two favourite directors. He then became the producer of the first three seasons of Blake's 7 (1978–80), which included directing three episodes himself. He left Blake's 7 to produce the last series of When the Boat Comes In (1981). He also produced the BBC's adaptation of John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids (1981). After his work in television drama, Maloney moved to factual programme-making 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 Weng-Chiang (1977).

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024

Clowns
1989

Blake's 7: Aftermath
1986

Blake's 7: Orac
1986

End of the Line
1984

Aliens
1982

Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Rolling
1982

Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
1977

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
1976

Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
1975

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
1975

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
1973

Doctor Who: The War Games
1969

Doctor Who: The Krotons
1969

Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
1968