Catherine Morshead

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

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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

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  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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