George Gallaccio is a British

United Kingdom

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 television producer

Television producer

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, whose most prominent work was as producer of the BBC

BBC

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 programme Miss Marple

Miss Marple (TV series)

Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It starred Joan Hickson in the title role, and aired from 1984 to 1992. All twelve original Miss Marple Christie novels have been dramatised. The screenplays were written by T. R...

, based on the novels by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...

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He began his career at the BBC in the early-1970s working as a Production Unit Manager, essentially the budget manager of any given production. In this capacity he worked on several serials in the popular and long-running science-fiction series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

. In 1979 he was promoted to producer and oversaw the BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...

 supernatural drama series The Omega Factor

The Omega Factor

The Omega Factor is a British television series produced by BBC Scotland in 1979...

, after which he was offered the producership of Doctor Who by BBC Drama's Head of Series & Serials Graeme MacDonald

Graeme MacDonald

Graeme MacDonald was a British television producer and executive....

, but turned the role down.

In the early-1980s, he produced the popular detective drama Bergerac

Bergerac (TV series)

Bergerac was a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" Bergerac was a British television show...

, before moving onto the Miss Marple adaptations.

In 1962 he married the actress Maureen Morris. The following year they gave birth to a daughter, the artist Anya Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio is a Scottish artist, who often works with organic matter. She was a nominee in the 2003 Turner Prize.-Life and career:...

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