Michael Hayes

Michael Hayes

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.

  • Title: Michael Hayes
  • Popularity: 0.1243
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1929-04-03
  • Place of Birth: Barking, Essex, UK
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Michael Hayes Movies

  • 2007
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    A Matter of Time

    A Matter of Time

    1 2007 HD

    A retrospective documentary looking at Graham Williams' three-year tenure as Doctor Who producer.

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  • 2007
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    The Humans of Tara

    The Humans of Tara

    1 2007 HD

    The cast and crew look back at the making of The Androids of Tara.

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  • 2007
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    Defining Shadows

    Defining Shadows

    1 2007 HD

    The cast and crew look back at the making of The Armageddon Factor.

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  • 2005
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    Paris in the Springtime

    Paris in the Springtime

    1 2005 HD

    A 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams.

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  • 2007
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    Directing Who: Michael Hayes

    Directing Who: Michael Hayes

    1 2007 HD

    Michael Hayes talks about his directing career on Doctor Who.

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  • 1979
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    Doctor Who: City of Death

    Doctor Who: City of Death

    8.9 1979 HD

    While 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?...

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  • 1969
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    The Promise

    The Promise

    1 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

    Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

    7.3 1978 HD

    Finding 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...

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  • 1979
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    Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

    Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

    5 1979 HD

    The 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...

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  • 1970
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    Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

    Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

    1 1970 HD

    Two 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...

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  • 1980
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    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    1 1980 HD

    Opera version of the classic Dickens tale.

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  • 1984
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    Nice

    Nice

    7.4 1984 HD

    A naïve and "nice" West Indian's descent into postcolonial cynicism is depicted in a twenty minute monologue from writer Farrukh Dhondy.

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  • 1973
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    The Table

    The Table

    1 1973 HD

    A couple row at the breakfast table about the wife's apparent infidelity.

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  • 1973
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    The Table

    The Table

    1 1973 HD

    A couple row at the breakfast table about the wife's apparent infidelity.

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  • 1965
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    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses

    8.5 1965 HD

    A 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...

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  • 1981
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    Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

    Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

    1 1981 HD

    BBC adaptation of The Arabian Nights

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  • 1973
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    The Mikado

    The Mikado

    1 1973 HD

    In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of...

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  • 1978
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    Merry Christmas Doctor Who

    Merry Christmas Doctor Who

    10 1978 HD

    The Doctor, Romana and K9 drink in the TARDIS in celebration of Christmas.

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  • 1972
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    Mill Hill

    Mill Hill

    1 1972 HD

    A dentist discovers his wife on the verge of having an affair with another man - a rival dentist

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of...

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Oil Strike North is a BBC television drama series produced in 1975. The series was created and produced by Gerard Glaister and dealt with life on...

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  • 1970
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    7.9 1970 HD

    The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role. Johns had previously played...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Gabrielle, formerly member of a terrorist cell, flees to England after an attempt on her life. Fearing that Gabrielle may betray it to the...

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  • 1970
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    10 1970 HD

    Thirteen Against Fate is a series of thirteen hour-long episodes based on the novels of Georges Simenon. Noted for the sound psychology of his...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful...

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  • 1970
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    4.7 1970 HD

    A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Centres on the lives of three single girls living in bedsit-land in London SW3.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A spin-off/rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies is a more conventional espionage thriller than its predecessor, being...

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  • 1970
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    4.5 1970 HD

    Prince Regent is a British period television series that first aired on the BBC in 1979. It depicted the life of George IV from his youth, time as...

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

    Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first...

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  • 1970
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    9 1970 HD

    The Wars of the Roses was a 1963 theatrical adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI &...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of...

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