Born: 9th February 1935
Episodes Broadcast: 1966

Michael Imison was born in Hoylake, Merseyside. While attending Oxford University, he became the director of its Theatre Group, and led the organisation of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Imison joined the BBC as a trainee administrator. He moved to the Script Department in 1961, working on programmes like Storyboard. He served as the story editor of the soap opera Compact in 1963, but then decided to switch gears again by completing the BBC's directors' training course. He returned to Compact in this new capacity, and subsequently worked on shows like Swizzlewick, Mary Barton and The Flying Swan.

Imison's preference was to direct adaptations of classics serials but, in 1966, Imison found himself assigned to the Doctor Who serial The Ark. He considered this to be a punishment imposed by Head of Serials Gerald Savory whose wife, actress Annette Carell, had come into conflict with Imison while they worked together on Buddenbrooks in 1965. After making Doctor Who, Imison's contract with the BBC was not renewed, although he did briefly serve as the story editor for Out Of The Unknown.

Imison then left television altogether, becoming a successful literary agent with a focus on playwrights. In 1999, he helped found the Noël Coward Society. He and his wife, the celebrated science educator Dame Tamsyn Imison, had three children.