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Richard Martin (born 1930) is a British television director most famous for having directed several episodes of ''Doctor Who''. He also acted in the TV series ''Ivanhoe''. He is married to actress Suzanne Neve.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552957/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01kqt9x/profiles/richard-martin )〕 ==Doctor Who== After having acted in the 1958 television series ''Ivanhoe'' and the 1960 series ''Maigret'', Martin was asked to join the production team working on yet to be released series ''Doctor Who'' by caretaker producer Rex Tucker.〔〔 He worked on ''Doctor Who'' during its first two seasons, from 1963 to 1965.〔 Martin directed part of the second story of the inaugural season of ''Doctor Who'', ''The Daleks'', in which the titular villains were first introduced.〔〔 During the making of ''The Daleks'' Martin pushed producer Verity Lambert to approach the story in a less conservative manner.〔 Martin also directed two additional stories featuring the Daleks for the second season of ''Doctor Who'', ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth'' and ''The Chase''.〔 Martin directed two other ''Doctor Who'' stories. He directed the first episode of ''The Edge of Destruction'', which immediately followed ''The Daleks'' in season 1, and the entire season 2 story ''The Web Planet''.〔〔 For the latter story, Martin wanted to film through a special camera lens to make the planet appear more "alien," but due to budget constraints he had to resort to covering the lens with vaseline to achieve the effect, which many viewers found distracting.〔 In 2013, the BBC praised Martin's direction of ''Edge of Destruction'' for how it " wrings every available ounce of suspense, horror and mystery" from a script that features only the show's four regular characters.〔 They also praised his direction of certain iconic scenes from ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''.〔 Authors Tat Wood and Lawrence Miles credit Martin for "the most impressive effect" in ''The Daleks'', that of "the wall blistering under the Daleks' weapons." Authors Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping regard ''The Daleks'' as being "brilliantly directed." However, Wood and Miles criticize Martin for permitting outside noises such as studio doors opening and closing to be heard during stories he directs, and describe the direction of ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth'' as "mistimed," while acknowledging that the "grit and darkness" of some scenes are "enough to hold the attention for a while."〔 Wood and Miles also consider Martin responsible for ''The Web Planet'' not working, for example by not objecting to the "creaky" sets.〔 Author Mark Campbell also criticizes this story as being "badly directed." Critic John Kenneth Muir concurs that ''The Web Planet'' is "badly filmed," but praises the story for being an experiment in showing a truly alien world, which according to Wood and Miles was the type of story Martin had been wanting ''Doctor Who'' to do.〔 Wood and Miles consider Martin to have been "hopelessly out of his depth" in directing ''The Chase'', suggesting that the previous story, ''The Space Museum'', would have played to his strengths as a director instead.〔 Journalist Peter Haining had a different opinion of Martin's direction of ''The Chase'', claiming that Martin's use of techniques such as fast intercuts, overlays and animation made the final battle of the story "one of the finest battle scenes ever filmed for ''Doctor Who''." Martin himself attributes the flaws with ''The Web Planet'' and ''The Chase'' to inadequate budgets, and in the case of ''The Chase'' restrictions on his use of moving camera techniques. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Martin (television director)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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