Born: 12th December 1916 (as John Michael Bazalgette Leeston-Smith)
Died: 5th December 2001 (aged 84 years)
Episodes Broadcast: 1965

Michael Leeston-Smith was born in Torquay, Devon. As a teenager, he was hired at Ealing Studios, first as a photographer and then as a sound recordist. He joined the BBC in 1938, but his employment was interrupted by the Second World War, during which Leeston-Smith served in the Royal Horse Artillery. Returning to the BBC, he was a lighting engineer on the original The Quartermass Experiment in 1953, and was promoted to production assistant for its 1955 sequel, Quatermass II. Leeston-Smith then became a staff director, with credits including The Small House At Allington (which he also produced), Witch Wood, Z Cars and R3. In 1965 he made The Myth Makers, which would be his only Doctor Who serial. Leeston-Smith left the BBC to go freelance, eventually moving to South Africa in 1973 to work for the nascent television service of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. He died on December 6th, 2001.