John Alexander Fairley FRTS (born 15 April 1938)[1] is a British former television producer from Liverpool, who now lives in Yorkshire.
[2] With William Allison he wrote the 1978 book The Monocled Mutineer, made into a well-known 1986 BBC One controversial drama series, adapted by Alan Bleasdale.
[2] He attended MerchantTaylor's school in Crosby, Merseyside and then went to The Queen's College, Oxford.
He became Managing Director of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television in 1993 until April 1995.
During his employment at Yorkshire Television, he was the Producer of the cave diving documentary The Underground Eiger.