Alan James William Bell (14 November 1937 – 19 October 2023) was a British television producer and director.
[1][2] Bell worked on many BBC series from the early 1970s, most notably Last of the Summer Wine,[3] producing and directing 250 episodes from 1981 until the series ended in 2010, Ripping Yarns, and the television adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
[4] He was also assigned to re-edit and improve Ronnie Barker's short 1982 film, By the Sea.
Other comedy shows included There's a Lot of it About, The Hello Goodbye Man, The Clairvoyant, Wyatt's Watchdogs, Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy, and Split Ends.
It was a sequel to Longden's earlier autobiographical film Wide-Eyed and Legless (known as The Wedding Gift in the USA).