Born: 6th May 1945 (as Nicholas Victor Patrick Mallett)
Died: 30th January 1997 (aged 51 years)
Episodes Broadcast: 1986-1987, 1989

Norwich-born Nicholas Mallett originally trained as a ballet dancer, before an injury forced him to consider other options. Instead he decided to work in television, joining the BBC in the early Seventies as an assistant floor manager on programmes such as Warship. Mallett was promoted to production assistant by 1975, with Blake's 7 amongst his credits. He then became a production associate around 1980, working on shows like Shackleton. Mallett completed the BBC's internal directors' course in 1984, and got his first directing credits on 1985 episodes of Late Starter and Black Silk.

In 1986, Mallett was brought onto Doctor Who for the troubled The Trial Of A Time Lord (Segment One), featuring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor. He returned to the programme twice during Sylvester McCoy's time as the Seventh Doctor, for the offbeat Paradise Towers in 1987, and then 1989's spine-chilling The Curse Of Fenric. Other Eighties television included Crossroads and Children's Ward. During the Nineties, Mallett directed several installments of The Bill and Take The High Road, as well as the German mini-series Ruby. He died on January 30th, 1997.