Biography
Peter Grimwade (8 June 1942 – 15 May 1990) was a British television director and screenwriter. He joined the BBC in the late 1960s and worked as a production assistant on several Doctor Who serials before directing model sequences for The Robots of Death (1977). His first full directorial credit was an episode of The Omega Factor (1979).
Grimwade directed four Doctor Who serials: Full Circle (1980), Logopolis (1981), Kinda (1982) and Earthshock (1982). He also wrote Time-Flight (1982), Mawdryn Undead (1983) and Planet of Fire (1984). He had earlier written episodes of Z-Cars and worked as a production assistant on series including All Creatures Great and Small (1978) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979).
