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| birth_name = Eileen Mary Ridge
| birth_name = Eileen Mary Ridge
| birth_date = 23 June 1925
| birth_date = 23 June 1925
| birth_place = [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], Lancashire
| birth_place = Preston, Lancashire
| death_date = {{death date and age|20 September 2000|23 June 1925|df=y}}
| death_date = 20 September 2000
| death_place = London
| death_place = London
| occupation = Television director
| occupation = Television director
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== Early life ==
== Early life ==
Ridge was born in [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], Lancashire, and raised in [[Colwyn Bay]], Wales, the daughter of William W. Ridge and Eileen Dorothy Phillips Hackett Ridge. Her father was a bank manager.<ref>The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/7577c; Enumeration District: Zjbh. via Ancestry</ref> Ridge attended the Lyndon School in Colwyn Bay.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1942-11-05 |title=Lyndon School, Colwyn Bay |pages=5 |work=The North Wales Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110168054/lyndon-school-colwyn-bay/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She acted and directed in theatrical productions in Colwyn Bay as a young woman.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pogramme for &#039;A Message from Mars&#039; performed at The New Rialto Repertory Theatre, Colwyn Bay, commencing Christmas Day 1942 [image 1 of 3] |url=https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/19280 |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=People's Collection Wales |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1943-01-28 |title=Repertory Theatre |pages=6 |work=The North Wales Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110167741/repertory-theatre/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1943-06-10 |title=Repertory Theatre |pages=6 |work=The North Wales Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110167629/repertory-theatre/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Ridge was born in [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]], Lancashire, and raised in [[Colwyn Bay]], Wales, the daughter of William W. Ridge and Eileen Dorothy Phillips Hackett Ridge. Her father was a bank manager.<ref>The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/7577c; Enumeration District: Zjbh. via Ancestry</ref> Ridge attended the Lyndon School in Colwyn Bay.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1942-11-05 |title=Lyndon School, Colwyn Bay |pages=5 |work=The North Wales Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110168054/lyndon-school-colwyn-bay/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She acted and directed in theatrical productions in Colwyn Bay as a young woman.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pogramme for &#039;A Message from Mars&#039; performed at The New Rialto Repertory Theatre, Colwyn Bay, commencing Christmas Day 1942 [image 1 of 3] |url=https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/19280 |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Peoples Collection Wales |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1943-01-28 |title=Repertory Theatre |pages=6 |work=The North Wales Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110167741/repertory-theatre/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1943-06-10 |title=Repertory Theatre |pages=6 |work=The North Wales Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110167629/repertory-theatre/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
Ridge directed a play, ''To Kill a Cat'' by [[Roland Pertwee]] and [[Harold Dearden]], in 1955.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1955-03-18 |title=A Good Play |pages=10 |work=Sevenoaks Chronicle, Westerham Courier and Kentish Advertiser |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110167452/a-good-play/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her television work began in 1964,<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 22, 1964 |title=New BBC director makes her debut |pages=11 |work=The Stage and Television Today |via=ProQuest}}</ref> and includes episodes of ''[[The Wednesday Play]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=1965 |title=The Bond |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1410468/index.html |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=BFI Screenonline}}</ref> ''[[The Brothers (1972 TV series)|The Brothers]]'', ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]],'' ''Blake's 7'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Muir |first=John Kenneth |url=http://archive.org/details/historycriticala0000muir |title=A history and critical analysis of Blake's 7, the 1978-1981 British television space adventure |date=2000 |publisher=Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-0600-5 |pages=147 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/thingofbeautytra00frie |title=Terry Nation's Blake's 7 : the programme guide |date=1983 |publisher=London : W.H. Allen |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-426-19449-1 |pages=21–23}}</ref> ''Doctor Who'' (''[[Terminus (Doctor Who)|Terminus]]'', in 1983),<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |title=Director & Team |url=https://archive.org/details/Doctor_Who_-_In-Vision_066_-_Terminus.PDF/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Mary+Ridge%22+director |journal=Doctor Who in Vision 066 Terminus |pages=7-11 (quote on 7) |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> and ''[[Z Cars]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 March 1974 |title=Z Cars: Rota |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f7c6e1d3e41c4e949b2fc39f013dbc7a |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=BBC Programme Index}}</ref> She served as Associate Producer on ''[[The Duchess of Duke Street]]''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Nazzaro |first=Joe |date=April 2006 |title=Blake's End: Director Mary Ridge Recalls Making the Most Controversial ''Blake's 7'' |url=https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-344JPG/344/page/n49/mode/2up?q=%22Mary+Ridge%22+ |journal=Starlog Magazine |issue=344 |pages=50–53 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In 1968, she directed the Christmas Day episode of ''[[The Newcomers (TV series)|The Newcomers]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1968-12-19 |title=Millions will share her Christmas in Angleton |pages=10 |work=The North Wales Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110166815/millions-will-share-her-christmas-in/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1976, she directed an adaptation of [[Buchi Emecheta]]'s ''Nigeria: A Kind of Marriage''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newland |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BZCLVHpA-gC&dq=%22Mary+Ridge%22+BBC&pg=PA170 |title=Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s |date=2010 |publisher=Intellect Books |isbn=978-1-84150-320-2 |pages=170 |language=en}}</ref> Ridge was "renowned for a tight sense of planning, total precision in the studio, especially from her camera teams, and an ability to produce drama with a good sense of pace," noted one [[fanzine]] profile in 1996.<ref name=":1" />
Ridge directed a play, ''To Kill a Cat'' by [[Roland Pertwee]] and [[Harold Dearden]], in 1955.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1955-03-18 |title=A Good Play |pages=10 |work=Sevenoaks Chronicle, Westerham Courier and Kentish Advertiser |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110167452/a-good-play/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her television work began in 1964,<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 22, 1964 |title=New BBC director makes her debut |pages=11 |work=The Stage and Television Today |via=ProQuest}}</ref> and includes episodes of ''[[The Wednesday Play]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=1965 |title=The Bond |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1410468/index.html |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=BFI Screenonline}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Cooke |first=Lez |title=The Bond (BBC1, 1965) |date=2013 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137265920_4 |work=Style in British Television Drama |pages=41–60 |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137265920_4 |isbn=978-1-349-44313-0 |access-date=2022-09-25}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Macmurraugh-Kavanagh |first=Madeleine |title=Too Secret for Words: Coded Dissent in Female-authored Wednesday Plays |date=2014 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137327581_18 |work=British Television Drama |pages=191–202 |editor-last=Bignell |editor-first=Jonathan |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137327581_18 |isbn=978-1-137-32757-4 |access-date=2022-09-25 |editor2-last=Lacey |editor2-first=Stephen}}</ref> ''[[The Brothers (1972 TV series)|The Brothers]]'', ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]],'' ''Blake's 7'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Muir |first=John Kenneth |url=http://archive.org/details/historycriticala0000muir |title=A history and critical analysis of Blake's 7, the 1978-1981 British television space adventure |date=2000 |publisher=Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland |others= |isbn=978-0-7864-0600-5 |pages=147 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/thingofbeautytra00frie |title=Terry Nation's Blake's 7 : the programme guide |date=1983 |publisher=London : W.H. Allen |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-426-19449-1 |pages=21-23}}</ref> ''Doctor Who'' (''[[Terminus (Doctor Who)|Terminus]]'', in 1983),<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |title=Director & Team |url=https://archive.org/details/Doctor_Who_-_In-Vision_066_-_Terminus.PDF/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Mary+Ridge%22+director |journal=Doctor Who In Vision 066 Terminus |pages=7-11 (quote on 7) |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> and ''[[Z Cars]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 March 1974 |title=Z Cars: Rota |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f7c6e1d3e41c4e949b2fc39f013dbc7a |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=BBC Programme Index}}</ref> She served as Associate Producer on ''[[The Duchess of Duke Street]]''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Nazzaro |first=Joe |date=April 2006 |title=Blake's End: Director Mary Ridge Recalls Making the Most Controversial ''Blake's 7' " |url=https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-344JPG/344/page/n49/mode/2up?q=%22Mary+Ridge%22+ |journal=Starlog Magazine |issue=344 |pages=50-53 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In 1968, she directed the Christmas Day episode of ''[[The Newcomers (TV series)|The Newcomers]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1968-12-19 |title=Millions will share her Christmas in Angleton |pages=10 |work=The North Wales Weekly News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110166815/millions-will-share-her-christmas-in/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1976, she directed an adaptation of [[Buchi Emecheta]]'s ''Nigeria: A Kind of Marriage''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newland |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BZCLVHpA-gC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA170&dq=%22Mary%20Ridge%22%20BBC&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q=%22Mary%20Ridge%22%20BBC&f=false |title=Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s |date=2010 |publisher=Intellect Books |isbn=978-1-84150-320-2 |pages=170 |language=en}}</ref> Ridge was "renowned for a tight sense of planning, total precision in the studio, especially from her camera teams, and an ability to produce drama with a good sense of pace," noted one [[fanzine]] profile in 1996.<ref name=":1" />


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==

Revision as of 20:06, 25 September 2022

Mary Ridge
A white woman with short dark hair
Mary Ridge, from a 1968 newspaper
Born
Eileen Mary Ridge

23 June 1925
Preston, Lancashire
Died20 September 2000
London
OccupationTelevision director

Eileen Mary Ridge (23 June 1925 – 20 September 2000) was a British television director, best known for directing episodes of Blake's 7 and Doctor Who.

Early life

Ridge was born in Preston, Lancashire, and raised in Colwyn Bay, Wales, the daughter of William W. Ridge and Eileen Dorothy Phillips Hackett Ridge. Her father was a bank manager.[1] Ridge attended the Lyndon School in Colwyn Bay.[2] She acted and directed in theatrical productions in Colwyn Bay as a young woman.[3][4][5]

Career

Ridge directed a play, To Kill a Cat by Roland Pertwee and Harold Dearden, in 1955.[6] Her television work began in 1964,[7] and includes episodes of The Wednesday Play,[8][9][10] The Brothers, Dixon of Dock Green, Blake's 7,[11][12] Doctor Who (Terminus, in 1983),[13] and Z Cars.[14] She served as Associate Producer on The Duchess of Duke Street.[15] In 1968, she directed the Christmas Day episode of The Newcomers.[16] In 1976, she directed an adaptation of Buchi Emecheta's Nigeria: A Kind of Marriage.[17] Ridge was "renowned for a tight sense of planning, total precision in the studio, especially from her camera teams, and an ability to produce drama with a good sense of pace," noted one fanzine profile in 1996.[13]

Personal life

Ridge died in London in 2000, aged 75 years.[15]

References

  1. ^ The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/7577c; Enumeration District: Zjbh. via Ancestry
  2. ^ "Lyndon School, Colwyn Bay". The North Wales Weekly News. 1942-11-05. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-09-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Pogramme for 'A Message from Mars' performed at The New Rialto Repertory Theatre, Colwyn Bay, commencing Christmas Day 1942 [image 1 of 3]". Peoples Collection Wales. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  4. ^ "Repertory Theatre". The North Wales Weekly News. 1943-01-28. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-09-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Repertory Theatre". The North Wales Weekly News. 1943-06-10. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-09-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "A Good Play". Sevenoaks Chronicle, Westerham Courier and Kentish Advertiser. 1955-03-18. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-09-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "New BBC director makes her debut". The Stage and Television Today. October 22, 1964. p. 11 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ "The Bond". BFI Screenonline. 1965. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  9. ^ Cooke, Lez (2013), "The Bond (BBC1, 1965)", Style in British Television Drama, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 41–60, doi:10.1057/9781137265920_4, ISBN 978-1-349-44313-0, retrieved 2022-09-25
  10. ^ Macmurraugh-Kavanagh, Madeleine (2014), Bignell, Jonathan; Lacey, Stephen (eds.), "Too Secret for Words: Coded Dissent in Female-authored Wednesday Plays", British Television Drama, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 191–202, doi:10.1057/9781137327581_18, ISBN 978-1-137-32757-4, retrieved 2022-09-25
  11. ^ Muir, John Kenneth (2000). A history and critical analysis of Blake's 7, the 1978-1981 British television space adventure. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-7864-0600-5 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ Terry Nation's Blake's 7 : the programme guide. Internet Archive. London : W.H. Allen. 1983. pp. 21–23. ISBN 978-0-426-19449-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ a b "Director & Team". Doctor Who In Vision 066 Terminus: 7-11 (quote on 7) – via Internet Archive.
  14. ^ "Z Cars: Rota". BBC Programme Index. 25 March 1974. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  15. ^ a b Nazzaro, Joe (April 2006). "Blake's End: Director Mary Ridge Recalls Making the Most Controversial Blake's 7' "". Starlog Magazine (344): 50–53 – via Internet Archive.
  16. ^ "Millions will share her Christmas in Angleton". The North Wales Weekly News. 1968-12-19. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-09-25 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Newland, Paul (2010). Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s. Intellect Books. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-84150-320-2.

External links

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