Television director who directed three early episodes of The Next Generation: The Big Goodbye, Skin of Evil and Time Squared.
Joseph L. Scanlan is a television director whose career took in American and Canadian series from the 1970s to the 1990s, among them Knots Landing, Lou Grant and Falcon Crest.
He directed three episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Big Goodbye, in the first season, was the first Dixon Hill holodeck story and won the series a Peabody Award. Skin of Evil, later in the same season, is the episode in which Tasha Yar is killed by the creature Armus.
He returned in the second season for Time Squared, in which the crew recover a shuttlecraft carrying a duplicate Picard from six hours in the future.