George F. Kerr (15 April 1918 – 29 October 1996) was an English writer best known for his work in TV. He worked for eight years in British TV as a writer and script editor.[1]
He moved to Australia in 1957 and wrote several early TV dramas as well as stage and radio plays.[2] He returned to England in the mid 1960s.[3]
In 1955 when Kerr was a script editor for Associated Television he wrote that "a successful television play should have a strong contemporary story plus a subplot, preferrably of emotional entanglement. The story should be classifiable as a study of the peoples next door or, if the troubles are slightly unsavoury, of the people next door but one."[5]
Doctor Who
In April 1966, Kerr was asked from the production office at BBC to work on some stories for Doctor Who on Season 4 of the program.[6] These stories Kerr submitted have no explanation details, and were both rejected by story editor Gerry Davis on 15 June 1966.[6] These stories were entitled as:
^"Advertising". The Canberra Times. Vol. 34, no. 9, 649. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 9 July 1960. p. 17. Retrieved 5 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Advertising". The Canberra Times. Vol. 35, no. 10, 002. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 August 1961. p. 17. Retrieved 5 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
