Michael Imison (born in Hoylake, Cheshire, 9 February 1935) is a retired British television director and literary agent.
He directed several productions for the BBC in the 1960s, including Doctor Who, and subsequently served as the story editor on the second series of the science-fiction anthology programme Out of the Unknown.
Although his contract as a staff director was not renewed following the completion of the serial,[3] Imison remained at the BBC and acted as story editor on the second series of Out of the Unknown under producer Irene Shubik.
He also helped previously unknown dramatists such as David Edgar (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby) and Bernard Pomerance (The Elephant Man) to international success.
It has now been incorporated into Alan Brodie Representation Ltd., Imison founded and chaired the Noël Coward Society, worked for the British Humanist Association,[4] and also founded and chaired the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society when he was the undergraduate director of the Oxford University Theatre Group, known for its late-night revues which launched the careers of Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore among others.