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Directing
Most of the following productions have links to pages with more details about them - if you are interested....
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108465/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 This should go to my IMDb page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Briant These days most of my 'creative' time is spent making videos for my YouTube channel here Sailing Gently but my past professional activities on Dr Who, and Blakes 7 have come alive again!
The BBC have published a Blu-Ray boxes of all of Season 8 & 9 of Dr Who which features my first 'Who' production - Colony in Space and The Sea Devils Doctor Who The Collection: Season 9 is a Blu-ray set released on March 20th, 2023 The Collection range. This release features Michael E Briant at the Helm - a profile on the director of The Sea Devils among other Pertwee stories and Location, Location, Location: Some years ago I made voice over commentaries of all the episodes in both productions with some of the actor, the producer and story editor of those productions.
my experience working on show from Hartnel days onwards as a AFM, PA & Director here
I worked with all the 'classic series Doctors' up to and including Tom Baker. Had the pleasure of directing Cybermen, Sea Devils, Daleks and one of my teo favourites - the Robots from the space miner... the other being:
with interviews and commentary
THE WAY BACK, THE WEB, PROJECT AVALON, DELIVERANCE
I directed the first ever episode and then several more from the first series. Great fun to do - And still amazingly popular
Bravely going where others had been before!
Has been re-released on DVD
Beautifully presented box of 4 DVDs of the 3rd Series. in UK High Street shops such as HMV, Smiths
Prisoner of War The last Run Ring of Roses Ambush Light the Blue Touch Paper Collaborator
I considered that directing Secret Army turned me into a proper mature director - I was very proud to work on the show.
re-released on DVD
and is now available from high street stores and Amazon
Clifford Rose & Alison Glennie
Alan Dobie
Nitza Saul & Nick Young
Wonderful TV All Film Drama Series of 6 x 50' episodes Staring Claire Higgins- Ken Hutchinson - Gabrielle Anwar
Being a crook isn't a very pleasant way of life. It is particularly disagreeable to be married to someone in the underworld and worse still to be a mobster's daughter.
'There is little peace for a man who lives amongst hoodlums and there may be no hiding place'.
There is certainly no honour
BECAME
Really well written by Arden Winch this 6 x 50' serial was very well received and a pleasure to direct!
I directed several episodes over a couple of seasons of this popular series.
eter was a delightful actor to work with and most of the success of the series was down to his portrayal of James Onedin.
Worked again with him on One by One
Zoo Vet series about work with exotic animals - lots of fun - very interesting working with Jimmy Clubb & Sally Chipperfield's Circus.
I direct a mean elephant!
We shot the West Indian island sequences on the southern tip of Corsica - that was as far as the budget allowed us to go! The Jungle was shot on the Mildmay estate near Plymouth which has been home location to several previous versions of this 'Sea Story'.
BBC Sunday Classic 6 part Serial . I wrote the adaptation as well as Directing Won an Emmy.
Feature film aimed at the new VHS market produced by Linked Ring Productions - My own production company - shot in Gibraltar - Morocco & UK
Billie Whitelaw & Ronnie Cox Available from Amazon and eBay
A very good BBC 1 drama series about life in a Leander Class Frigate
HMS HERO.
Created and mainly written by Ian Mackintosh a serving RN officer. He was awarded a posthumous MBE for his work in Intelligence - a real life James Bond!
Locations in Hong Kong, Plymouth & Portsmouth.
Southerland’s Law
BBC Scotland - recorded in Glasgow - Oban and other beautiful places!
Breakaway
Francis Durbridge 6 part mystery serial with a huge following in Germany where it was called Die Handschuhen
From my original idea
Very successful 'boating and between the sheets' drama series set on the Hamble River.
As well as directing I created the sailing sequences that backed the end credits.
A really fun days shooting with a helicopter, speed boats and some splendid craft to photograph!
The cast Maurice Colbourne as all round good-guy Tom Howard, Jan Harvey as the glamorous Jan Howard and Stephen Yardley as the manipulative Ken Masters.
(My brief sojourn in Netherlands Television)
Had the pleasure of directing the first & second series.
My real function was to bring UK TV drama production techniques to Netherlands TV.
Found the Scripts, did the casting, created the recording techniques and imported the UK system of Sit Com to the Netherlands - with the help of some UK technicians who flew in for a week!!.
Possibly not the brightest light on the Netherlands Christmas tree but rich and powerful...
Firsts are always interesting!
working for the Vara I directed this clever sit com based on Swedish Series. 3 series of it!
Won lots of awards for Netherlands TV drama and got to live in Amsterdam!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108465/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 This should go to my IMDb page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Briant
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SPIJKERHOEK
Found the script, Produced and Directed the Pilot
then got fired by Joop v/d Ende! For not obeying orders!.jpg)
