Peter Grimwade

Peter Grimwade
Born	Henry Peter Grimwade 8 June 1942 Scotland
Died	15 May 1990(1990-05-15) (aged 47) London, England
Cause of death	Leukaemia
Occupation	Television director

Peter Grimwade (8 June 1942 – 15 May 1990) was a British television writer and director, best known for his work on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Grimwade's talent as a director was evident during his time at Truro Cathedral School: in his final year there, he was responsible for a production of The Monkey's Paw.

After joining the BBC in the late 1960s, he first worked on Doctor Who as a Production Assistant on Jon Pertwee's first serial, Spearhead from Space (1970). He occupied this position on a further five serials. In 1977, he got his first chance to direct, being asked to film some model shots for the serial The Robots of Death while the serial's actual director, Michael E. Briant, directed the rest of the serial in the studio. Tom Baker, meanwhile, used Grimwade's name to replace the scripted "Grimwold's Syndrome" illness mentioned in the script. The serial's Production Unit Manager, George Gallaccio, later allowed him to make his full directorial debut on the episode "Out of Body, Out of Mind" in the series The Omega Factor (1979). Grimwade was also at this time Production Assistant on the BBC's serialised dramatisation of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).

Grimwade next directed some episodes of the drama series All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (which coincidentally featured Peter Davison, who Grimwade would direct twice and write for three times on Doctor Who) before returning to Doctor Who as a director. After directing the serial Full Circle (1980) Grimwade was given the task of directing Tom Baker's final serial, Logopolis. When Peter Davison became the Doctor, Grimwade first directed him in the serial Kinda (1982) and then directed Earthshock, featuring the return of the Cybermen to the show after eight years and the death of the character Adric.

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