Max Morgan-Witts is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located
Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV. Granada Television is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for North West England. He directed hundreds of popular television shows for Granada, including: 50 episodes of The Army Game, a forerunner of the American show Bilko and at the time Britain's highest-rated television program. The Army Game is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1957 to 1961 The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Phil Silvers Show (originally titled You'll Never Get Rich) was a comedy Television series which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 Afterwards Morgan-Witts directed 30 of the earliest episodes of Coronation Street, which followed The Army Game as Britain's top-rated TV show. Coronation Street (commonly known as 'Corrie' is an award-winning Soap opera created by Tony Warren
After his successes at Granada TV, Morgan-Witts moved to BBC TV, where he was responsible for many documentary programmes. This included 14 one-hour programmes titled The British Empire, a historical documentary series. It was filmed in 40 countries and at the time was the most expensive and ambitious documentary series the BBC had ever made. He was an editor and executive producer of Tomorrow's World, a hugely successful, live, weekly, popular science programme. Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC Television series showcasing new (and often wacky developments in the world of science and technology He was Director and Producer of many one-hour film documentaries made for peak time viewing on BBC-1, most of which he wrote himself but for one of which he hired Gordon Thomas. For the fictional supervillain see " Typeface (comics;" for the singer/songwriter see " Gordon Thomas (outsider musician. This was the beginning of their writing partnership.
Morgan-Witts wrote 10 non-fiction books with Thomas, four of which were made into feature films including Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb, which was first a four-hour NBC special and then re-cut as a feature. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Another was Voyage of the Damned, a highly-rated feature film which is frequently repeated on TV world-wide. Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 Film Drama and of its 1974 source book written by Gordon Thomas and
Morgan-Witts is a member of Society of Authors and has been awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award. The Society of Authors (UK is a Trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of Writers and fight to retain those The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars) named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America.
Now in partial retirement, Morgan-Witts has involved himself in the revival of the fortunes of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, the important London Arts & Crafts church.
His books are: