
Directing
Michael Hayes
Born 1929-04-03 · Barking, Essex, UK
Michael Hayes (3 April 1929 – 16 September 2014) was a British television director and newsreader. As a young man, Hayes was an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Later, he worked for the BBC in various roles, beginning as a studio manager for the World Service and working his way up to directing for television. His most notable work was directing the hugely successful BBC drama adaptations of various Shakespeare plays, collectively entitled An Age of Kings, in 1960. Amongst Hayes's other credits, he directed three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker, including 1979's City of Death and also helmed the BBC's 1961 adaptation of A for Andromeda.
Acting credits
NRA retrospective documentary looking at Graham Williams' three-year tenure as Doctor Who producer.
A Matter of Time
2007
NRMichael Hayes talks about his directing career on Doctor Who.
Directing Who: Michael Hayes
2007
NRA 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams.
Paris in the Springtime
2005
NRThe cast and crew look back at the making of The Armageddon Factor.
Defining Shadows
2007
NRThe cast and crew look back at the making of The Androids of Tara.
The Humans of Tara
2007
Behind the camera
NRFollows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
The Executioner
1966
NRJames has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.
Charlie
1968
7.4A naïve and "nice" West Indian's descent into postcolonial cynicism is depicted in a twenty minute monologue from writer Farrukh Dhondy.
Nice
1984
4.0A dentist discovers his wife on the verge of having an affair with another man - a rival dentist
Mill Hill
1972
8.7A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The Wars of the Roses
1965
6.5Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
A Flea in Her Ear
1968
Set in Leningrad. Follows the lives of three young Russians from the terror of the German siege of Leningrad through the uncertainty of the postwar years to the space age.
The Promise
1969
9.0While taking in the sights of Paris in 1979, the Doctor and Romana sense that someone is tampering with time. Who is the mysterious Count Scarlioni? Why does he seem to have counterparts scattered through time? And just how many copies of the Mona Lisa did Leonardo da Vinci paint?
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
NRA happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.
Infidelity Took Place
1968
5.5The final segment of the Key to Time is at the heart of a devastating war between neighbouring planets Atrios and Zeos. The Fourth Doctor discovers that a sinister entity is manipulating events and the cost of obtaining the final segment may be more personal than he imagined.
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979
7.2Finding the fourth segment of the Key to Time was simple enough, but holding onto it may be another matter. The Doctor and Romana find themselves embroiled in the political games of the planet Tara, where doubles, android or otherwise, complicate the coronation of Prince Reynart.
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978
9.0In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.
The Mikado
1973
10.0Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a favourite uncle.
Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
1970
10.0The Doctor, Romana and K9 drink in the TARDIS in celebration of Christmas.
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
1978
NRA couple row at the breakfast table about the wife's apparent infidelity.
The Table
1973
NRA couple row at the breakfast table about the wife's apparent infidelity.
The Table
1973
NRBBC adaptation of The Arabian Nights
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
1981
Opera version of the classic Dickens tale.
A Christmas Carol
1980
