George Gallaccio

George Gallaccio born 23 December 1938 is a British retired television producer who previously worked as a production assistant and production unit manager His most prominent work was as the producer on two BBC detective drama series Miss Marple 19851992 based on the novels by Agatha Christie and Bergerac 19881991 for which he was the final producer Gallaccio began his career at the BBC in the early 1970s He was the production assistant on Moonbase 3 1973 which was created by the Doctor Who production team of Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks 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 for 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 mindbending sequence of The Brain of Morbius 1976 later suggested as an early incarnation of the Doctor by producer Philip Hinchcliffe He also worked on the BBCs adaptations of David Copperfield 197475 and Anna Karenina 1977 Gallaccio worked as a drama producer for the first time on the sixpart 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 managements 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 Bergerac the detective drama series set in Jersey He produced several Miss Marple dramas between 1985 and 1992