Episodes Broadcast: 1978, 1984

Michael Owen Morris was an actor before he joined the BBC as an assistant floor manager, working on programmes such as Survivors. Promoted to production assistant, he earned his first Doctor Who credit on 1978's The Pirate Planet, which starred Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. Morris also served in this capacity on shows like The Onedin Line and Blake's 7, and as production manager on Tenko in 1981. He then completed the BBC's internal directors' course, whereupon he was invited to direct The Awakening for Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor. It was broadcast in 1984, by which time Morris had already earned his first on-screen credit as a director, for an episode of Angels. It was hoped that he would return to Doctor Who for its 1985 season, but this did not come to pass.

During the Eighties, Morris returned to Tenko as a director, worked on Juliet Bravo and Vanity Fair, and was reunited with Davison on several episodes of the mystery series Campion. He also made the first of numerous installments of Casualty and The Bill. Morris' credits during the Nineties included Medics, Coronation Street, Wycliffe and Holby City. He then became a regular director for EastEnders. Between 2003 and 2019, Morris made more than two hundred episodes of the venerable soap opera, and served as its producer in 2004.