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.
He moved to Australia in 1957 and wrote several early TV dramas as well as stage and radio plays. He returned to England in the mid 1960s.
He was a POW during World War II.
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, preferably 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.""Nature on a Slide" Author: George F. Kerr Date: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1955 Publication: The Daily Telegraph (London, England) Issue: 31307 p 6
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.A brief history of Doctor Who stories- The Lost Stories- Sullivan, Shannon These stories Kerr submitted have no explanation details, and were both rejected by story editor Gerry Davis on 15 June 1966. These stories were entitled as:
The Hearsay Machine
The Heavy Scent of Violence
The Man from the Met
These story titles are all that remain.A comprehensive history of Doctor Who's untold stories- The First Doctor (Part Two)- Wholmes, Harbo- retrieved February 2020
(see List of unmade Doctor Who serials and films)
Select credits Business in Great Waters (1952) – novel A Month of Sundays (TV play) (1952) – British TV play Jan and the Blue Fox (1952) – British TV play Almost Glory (1953) – radio play The Voice (1955) – British radio play Killer in Close-Up (1957) Symphonie Pastorale (1958) Man (Mark II) (1958) – - Australian radio play LBW Smith (1957) - radio play An Enemy of the People (1958) The Multi-Coloured Umbrella (1958) – TV movie Blue Murder (1959) – TV movie His Name Isn't Rogers (1959) – radio play Man in the Grovesnor Hotel (1959) – radio play The Last Minute (1960) Farewell, Farewell, Eugene (1960) – TV play Hunger of a Girl (1960) – play Ghost of a Day (1960) – radio play The Dock Brief (1960) – TV play Moment of Indecision (1961) – radio play Heart Attack (1960) – TV play A Little South of Heaven (1961) – TV play The Concert (1961) – TV play Traveller Without Luggage (1961) – TV play Once Upon a Time (1961) – radio play Jenny (1962) (TV play) She'll Be Right (1962) – TV movie Ghost of a Day (1964) – radio play Quick Before They Catch Us (1966) – TV series Z-Cars (1969) – TV series
References
External links
George F. Kerr at AustLit