Michael Mills (Producer)

Chance in a Million

Chance in a Million is a British sitcom broadcast between 1984 and 1986, produced by Thames Television for Channel 4. The series was co-written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen and starred Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn. The producer and director of the series was Michael Mills.

Release Date1984-09-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count18

Vote Count6

Clochemerle

Clochemerle is a 1972 British–West German television comedy based on Gabriel Chevallier's 1934 novel of the same name, with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson adapting the text. Filmed on location in France, it starred Roy Dotrice, Wendy Hiller, Cyril Cusack, Kenneth Griffith, and Cyd Hayman, with narration by Peter Ustinov. In the small French village of Clochemerle, Mayor Barthelemey Piechut plans for the erection of a 'pissoir' (gentlemen's public convenience) in the town square. Unfortunately, the rest of the rural inhabitants aren't as impressed.

Release Date1972-02-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count9

Vote Count1

All Gas and Gaiters

All Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. It was written by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps, a husband-and-wife team who used the pseudonym of "John Wraith" when writing the pilot. At St Oggs Cathedral is a carefree bishop, an old tippling archdeacon, and an accident-prone chaplain, who all wish to live a quiet bachelor life, but this is continually threatened by the dean, who tries to bring by-the-book rule to the cathedral.

Release Date1967-01-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic, well-meaning... and disaster-prone.

Release Date1973-02-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count19

Vote Count45

The Happy Prince

A royal statue makes friends with a small swallow.

Release Date1974-12-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Three Piece Suite

Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.

Release Date1977-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010.

Release Date1961-12-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count133

Vote Count2

Blandings Castle

Blandings Castle, based on P. G. Wodehouse's short stories in the same shared universe, is half of the larger British anthology series The World of Wodehouse. The six-episode miniseries broadcast on BBC1 from 24 Februrary to 31 March 1967.

Release Date1967-02-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Alice Through the Looking Box

A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.

Release Date1960-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Where There's Smoke

A compilation of satirical anti-smoking clips.

Release Date1970-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The World of Wooster

Based on P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, The World of Wooster, broadcast on BBC One from 1965 to 1967, followed the farcical adventures of young upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his invaluable manservant Jeeves. It starred Ian Carmichael as Wooster and Dennis Price as Jeeves. Wodehouse initially felt that Carmichael would be fine as Wooster, but later believed that Carmichael overacted; however, Wodehouse was satisfied enough with to later ask Carmichael to portray Bertie or Jeeves in a musical comedy. Carmichael declined, feeling too old to play Bertie again and that public perception prevented him from playing Jeeves. Wodehouse was far more positive about Price's Jeeves, stating that Price was the best Jeeves he had ever seen. Like many other series of the time, much of the episodes were wiped, leaving all but two now lost. In 2018, it was included at #51 in a list of the top 100 most wanted missing television programmes by TV archivist organisation Kaleidoscope.

Release Date1965-05-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count20

Vote Count2

Tripper's Day

Tripper's Day is a British sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV, starring Leonard Rossiter as a small London supermarket manager whose best intentions are constantly thwarted by the lazy, useless bunch of bums he employs. The programme is largely remembered for the negative reception, and primarily for the fact that it was Rossiter's final television work, the actor dying between the broadcast of the second and third episodes. The series was revived two years later with Bruce Forsyth in the lead role, under the new title Slinger's Day. In Canada and United States, it was remade as Check it Out!, whilst in Sweden, comical duo Stefan & Krister starred in Full Frys, a TV series largely based on both prior iterations.

Release Date1984-09-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count2

The World of Wodehouse

The World of Wodehouse was a comedy television series, based on the Blandings Castle and Ukridge comedy stories by P. G. Wodehouse. The series, which followed The World of Wooster, was shown on BBC Television during 1967 and 1968. Apart from one or more extracts from a solitary episode of Blandings Castle broadcast in February 1967, all episodes of both series are lost.

Release Date1967-02-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home is an Australian comedy television series created by Vince Powell and produced by Michael Mills, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Thames Television starring John Bluthal as Enzo Pacelli, a ham-fisted Italian immigrant taxi driver keen to champion his Italian values while his three Australian-educated children embrace the culture of their adopted country.

Release Date1980-10-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count26

Vote Count1

O Canada

Animated version of the Canadian national anthem used as a sign-off by the CBC.

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Evolution

A humourous illustration of the natural process of evolution.

Release Date1971-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

S.P.L.A.S.H.

This fast-paced and entertaining animated film is about water and the demands placed on our waterways by agriculture, industry, and urban life. An army of droplets, led by The Chief, shows what happens to water from the time it falls as rain until it reaches its destination.

Release Date1980-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town

An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860 starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Keith Michell, Pat Kirkwood, Warren Mitchell, Ronnie Barker, Bill Fraser, Gina Astralita, Eric Robinson. Introduced by Billy Russell. Tonight, 90 years after it closed, this famous Music-Hall opens again to bring you a picture of the stars, the singers, the dancers, and the people who once went there.

Release Date1970-12-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

History of the World in Three Minutes Flat

A history of life on Earth compressed into three minutes.

Release Date1980-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5