Kevin Davies bubbling over for Cult TV!

Kevin Davies began his career as an animator, working on the BAFTA award-winning graphic sequences for The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Blake’s 7 before designing the titles for Gerry Anderson’s Terrahawks. After joining the special effects team for Disney Animation’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit he worked on Spitting Image, the Warner Brothers feature Space Jam, and Event Horizon.

His writing and directing career began with The Making of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which included new scenes for the characters and cast, the BBC1 documentary Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the Tardis and Dalekmania which covered the feature films starring Peter Cushing in the 1960s. Since then he has directed Shakedown, two episodes of Sky One’s drama Space Island One and the live-action segments for the Sci-Fi Channel’s manga-influenced Archangel Thunderbird.

Acting as a consultant on the Omnibus tribute to Douglas Adams, he directed both his own short tribute for the Sci-Fi Channel and new segments for the DVD release of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as well as producing the on-screen captions which detail the creation of the show.

After the inclusion of his short spoof, Unit Recruitment Film, on the DVD release of Doctor Who Spearhead from Space, and his interview with writer Nigel Kneale on the Quatermass DVD, he has produced the documentaries and extras to accompany each boxset of Blake’s 7 and prepared documentaries for the classic sitcom Dad’s Army.

Kevin has recently been working on the documentary for the brand new audio adventures of Blake's 7 from B7 Productions, as well as a documentary concerning the new radio series of the classic Douglas Adams story "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" (starring Harry Enfield, Olivia Colman, Andrew Sachs and Billy Boyd). We were delighted that Kevin came back to Cult TV in 2007 for our farewell to live events.