Gerry Mill
Episodes Broadcast: 1967
Gerry Mill joined the BBC in the late Fifties, initially as an assistant
floor manager on shows like Hancock's Half Hour. His first
experience of Doctor Who came as a production assistant on The Massacre Of St Bartholomew's Eve
in 1966. Mill was promoted to director shortly thereafter, and initially
handled episodes of The Newcomers. He then returned to Doctor
Who to direct The Faceless
Ones in 1967. Other television in the late Sixties included
Coronation Street and Z Cars. Amongst Mill's many credits
during the Seventies were episodes of Adam Smith, Couples,
Rooms and Crown Court. The Eighties saw him working on
everything from The Gentle Touch to Super Gran to Robin
Of Sherwood to the first of more than thirty episodes of London's
Burning. In 1995, Mill began directing for Heartbeat; he
became its producer the following year and remained in the role until
2004, continuing to direct episodes until his retirement from television
in 2009.
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