Catherine Morshead
Catherine Morshead in March 2010
Catherine Morshead in March 2010

Catherine Morshead is a British TV director. She started her career in 1990 when she directed a show called Science Fiction, and in that same year she directed an episode of the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm. In 2008 she directed various episodes of the BBC 1 show Ashes to Ashes. In 2010 she directed two episodes of the fifth series of the revived Doctor Who series; the episodes are titled "Amy's Choice" and "The Lodger".[1][2] In 2015 she directed the series adaption of Fungus the Bogeyman, which aired on Christmas 2015.[3]

Director credits

Production Notes Broadcaster
Emmerdale
  • 7 episodes (1990)
 ITV
Haggard
  • 3 episodes (1992)
 ITV
Heartbeat
  • 5 episodes (1993–1994)
 ITV
Dangerfield
  • "The Call Girl" (1995)
 BBC
Casualty
  • "Crossing the Line" (1994)
  • "Money for Nothing" (1995)
  • "Subject to Contract" (1996)
 BBC
Soldier Soldier
  • "Walking on Air" (1996)
 ITV
Silent Witness
  • "Cease Upon the Midnight: Part 1" (1997)
  • "Cease Upon the Midnight: Part 2" (1997)
 BBC
The Bill
  • 6 episodes (1995–1998)
 ITV
Playing the Field
  • 3 episodes (1998)
 BBC
The Passion
  • 3 episodes (1999)
 BBC
Masterpiece Classic
  • "The Railway Children" (2000)
 PBS
A Christmas Carol
  • Television film (2000)
 ITV
Me & Mrs Jones
  • Television film (2002)
 PBS
Cutting It
  • 4 episodes (2002–2004)
 BBC
Life Begins
  • "Maggie & Phil" (2004)
 ITV
Shameless
  • 3 episodes (2006)
 Channel 4
Viva Blackpool
  • Television film (2006)
 BBC
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
  • 2 episodes (2006)
 BBC
Fairy Tales
  • "Rapunzel" (2008)
 BBC
Mutual Friends
  • 4 episodes (2008)
 BBC
Ashes to Ashes
  • 6 episodes (2008–2009)
 BBC
Murderland
  • "Carrie's Story" (2009)
  • "Hain's Story" (2009)
  • "Carol's Story" (2009)
 ITV
Doctor Who BBC
The Great Outdoors
  • 3 episodes (2010)
 BBC
Silk
  • 2 episodes (2011)
 BBC
Threesome
  • Co-director 1 episodes (2011)
 Comedy Central
Lapland
  • Television film (2011)
 BBC
Above Suspicion
  • "Silent Scream Parts 1–3" (2012)
 ITV
The Hour
  • 2 episodes (2012)
 BBC
Way to Go
  • "The Be All & End All" (2013)
  • "The Bitter End" (2013)
  • "The End of the Beginning" (2013)
 BBC
Two Doors Down
  • Television film (2013)
 BBC
Downton Abbey
  • 5 episodes (2013–14)
 ITV
Fungus the Bogeyman
  • 3 episodes (2015)
 SKY UK
No Offence
  • 8 episodes (2015–2018)
 Channel 4
’’Resistance’’
  • 1 episode (2019)
 RTÉ
’’Four Weddings And a Funeral’’
  • 3 episodes (2019)
 Hulu
Lockwood & Co.
  • 3 episodes (2023)
 Netflix

References

  1. ^ Steven Cooper Steven Moffat's Doctor Who 2010: the Critical Fan's Guide to Matt ...2011 -p104 "... newcomer Catherine Morshead is mostly straightforward – the nature of the episode doesn't really allow for directorial showing off, although the scenes in the darkened, icy TARDIS were suitably atmospheric, and there's a notable shot at the "
  2. ^ Doctor Who (series 5)
  3. ^ Fungus the Bogeyman Unleashed by Imaginarium

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