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George Gallaccio (born 23 December 1938) is a retired
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television producer
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who previously worked as a production assistant and production unit manager. His most prominent work was as the producer on two
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detective drama series, ''
Miss Marple
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'' (1985–1992), based on the novels by
Agatha Christie, and ''
Bergerac'' (1988–1991), for which he was the final producer.
Career
He began his career at the BBC in the early-1970s. He was the production assistant on ''
Moonbase 3
''Moonbase 3'' is a British science fiction television programme that ran for six episodes in 1973.
It was a co-production between the BBC, 20th Century Fox and the American ABC network.
Created by ''Doctor Who'' producer Barry Letts and s ...
'' (1973), which was created by the ''
Doctor Who'' production team of
Barry Letts
Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of ''Doctor Who'' from 1969 to 1974.
Born in Leicester, he worked as an actor in theatre, ...
and
Terrance Dicks
Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'', working a ...
. He also worked as a production unit manager (PUM), a new role created at the BBC which meant that he was in charge of the budgets on a given production. In this capacity he worked on ''Doctor Who'' between 1974 and 1976, and briefly appeared on screen as one of the faces in the mind-bending sequence of ''
The Brain of Morbius
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'' (1976), later suggested as an early incarnation of the Doctor by producer
Philip Hinchcliffe
Philip Michael Hinchcliffe (born October 1944) is a retired English television producer, screenwriter and script editor. After graduating from Cambridge University, he began his career as a writer and script editor at Associated Television befo ...
. He also worked on the BBC's adaptations of ''
David Copperfield
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'' (1974–75) and ''
Anna Karenina
''Anna Karenina'' ( rus, «Анна Каренина», p=ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever writt ...
'' (1977).
He worked as a drama producer for the first time on the six-part serial ''
The Legend of Robin Hood'' (1975), and later produced two series for
BBC Scotland, the supernatural ''
The Omega Factor'' (1979) and the
Andrea Newman serial ''Mackenzie'' (1980). He was the BBC management's first choice to produce ''Doctor Who'' following the departure of
Graham Williams in 1980, but turned it down.
Between 1988 and 1991, he served as the final producer of the detective drama set in Jersey, ''Bergerac''. He produced several ''Miss Marple'' dramas between 1985 and 1992.
Personal life
In 1962 he married the actress
Maureen Morris. The following year she gave birth to a daughter, the artist
Anya Gallaccio
Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a British artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice).
Her use of organic materials results in natural processes ...
.
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1938 births
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British people of Italian descent
British television producers
Living people
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