Dorothea Brooking (née Smith Wright; 7 December 1916 – 23 March 1999)[1] was an English children's television producer and director.
Dorothea Smith Wright was born into a theatrical family in Eton, Buckinghamshire (now part of Berkshire),[1][2] and educated at Busage House and a finishing school in Montreux, Switzerland.
During two years of the war, while her husband was in Africa, Brooking worked on the staff of a radio station in Shanghai.
[3] Brooking's last responsibility as a director was the Haunting of Cassie Palmer (1982) for Television South (TVS), commissioned by Anna Home, then the station's head of children's and youth programmes.
In her history of children's television, Into The Box of Delights (1993), Home describes Brooking as "one of the most influential makers of drama from the early Fifties onwards".