Episodes Broadcast: 2006

Dan Zeff's career in television began circa 1990, when he worked in a variety of junior positions. In 1994, he was one of the winners of the Lloyds Bank Channel 4 Film Challenge, launching his career as a director. The following year, Zeff won a BAFTA for the children's telefilm Coping With Christmas. He wrote and directed a variety of short films, including Sweetnightgoodheart with the future Tenth/Fourteenth Doctor, David Tennant. As the turn of the century approached, Zeff began to work more frequently on episodic television, such as At Home With The Braithwaites, Linda Green, The Worst Week Of My Life and Ideal.

Linda Green brought Zeff into contact with Phil Collinson, who subsequently became the producer of Doctor Who. As a result, Zeff was hired to direct Tennant in 2006's offbeat Love & Monsters. Amongst his credits later in the decade were Agatha Christie's Marple and Lost In Austen. Equally comfortable with comedy and drama, the 2010s saw Zeff directing everything from Pramface (for which he also wrote a script) to Ice Cream Girls to Siblings to The Collection. His 2011 telefilm Hattie, about the relationship between actors Hattie Jacques and John LeMesurier, remains the highest-rated programme in the history of BBC Four. Zeff's work in the Twenties included episodes of the children's science-fiction series Silverpoint.