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A sailor directs Dr Who, B7 and things....
23 August 2024 · 1h 16m · 2K views · Caribbean
What this video covers
Michael E. Bryant, who directed six Doctor Who serials in the 1970s — Colony in Space, The Sea Devils, The Green Death, Death to the Daleks, Revenge of the Cybermen, and Robots of Death — is interviewed about his television career and his later life as a circumnavigating sailor.0:17 The interview, drawn from the Roadhouse podcast, covers Bryant's experience directing Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, casting control on multi-part serials, location shooting at a Cornwall china clay quarry and Wookey Hole caves in Somerset, working with Daleks and Sea Devils, and directing several episodes of Blake's 7.0:39 Bryant describes Roger Delgado's fear of water during The Sea Devils, a dangerous stunt accident at Wookey Hole where an actress was thrown into fast-moving cold water, and the design approach behind Robots of Death.39:26 The sailing connection emerges when Bryant explains how weekend sailing provided relief from television stress, eventually leading to full-time cruising and circumnavigation.1:00:31 He describes sitting in the Caribbean for three weeks waiting on weather, starting the Sailing Gently YouTube channel after reaching 100 subscribers, filming with cheap GoPro knockoffs, and publishing guides including The Gentle Sailing Route to the Mediterranean and books on Caribbean islands, simple navigation, and liveaboard life, all available at gentlesailing.com.1:16:22
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