Christopher Barry
Christopher Chisholm Barry (20 September 1925 – 7 February 2014) was a British television director. He worked extensively in BBC television drama and became best known for his work on the science fiction series "Doctor Who". He also directed the direct to video "Doctor Who" spin-off "Downtime" in 1995. Early life and education. Barry attended the University of Cambridge and served in the Royal Air Force. Career. Barry became a trainee at Ealing Studios and worked on the film "The Ship That Died of Shame" (1955) as an assistant director to Basil Dearden. He subsequently joined the BBC  as a production assistant in 1955. In 1963 Barry was asked by producer Verity Lambert to be one of the initial directors of the BBC's new science fiction television series "Doctor Who". Barry's work on "Doctor Who" went on to cover the longest span of any director during the original run of the series, overseeing episodes until 1979. Among Barry's other television credits were episodes of "Compact" (1962), "Ann Veronica" (1964), "Paul Temple" (1970–71), "Z-Cars" (1971–78), "Poldark" (1975), "The Onedin Line" (1977), "All Creatures Great and Small" (1978–80), "Juliet Bravo" (1980) and "Dramarama" (1989). His other  science fiction credits were for "Out of the Unknown" (1969), "Moonbase 3" (1973) and "The Tripods" (1984). He appeared in a feature covering his life's work on the DVD release of the "Doctor Who" serial "The Creature from the Pit" (1979), released in May 2010. Personal life. Barry lived in Oxfordshire in his retirement. He died following an escalator fall in a shopping centre in Banbury on 7 February 2014. An inquest into his death was held on 5 June 2014.