Harold Edward Snoad (born 28 August 1935) is a British television producer, writer and director. He is best known for the television sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, starring Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift. He is also well known for having directed and produced Ever Decreasing Circles starring Richard Briers and Peter Egan, as well as Don't Wait Up starring Tony Britton and Nigel Havers. He has also had a successful writing career with his writing partner Michael Knowles, writing the radio spinoff of Dad's Army, It Sticks Out Half a Mile which evolved into the short-lived television series for ITV called High & Dry. Directing and Producing Career Harold Snoad joined the BBC in 1957, after working in the theatre, and had numerous roles, including as a ‘call boy’ for an episode of Hancock's Half Hour in 1960. Snoad soon gained promotion, becoming a producer and director in 1969. At the time, he was one of the youngest directors work in television. His first directing role came with Dad's Army starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. Snoad had already served as Production Assistant in series one and two and was responsible for choosing the town of Thetford in Norfolk as the site for the location filming. The first episode which was directed by Snoad was The Lion Has Phones which was first broadcast on 25 September 1969 and attracted 11.3 million viewers. in 1973, Snoad directed the sitcom Casanova '73 starring Leslie Phillips, but the series was not a success and received criticism from the likes of Mary Whitehouse. Snoad later went on to say of the series that he felt that if it had been aired five years later then it would probably have been better received. In 1974, he went on to work on series two of Are You Being Served?. Later that year, Snoad began to work on The Dick Emery Show, the show was already in its twelfth series by then and he would continue to direct and produce the show until its end in 1981. In 1976, Snoad directed with Ray Cooney his first feature film Not Now, Comrade which starred Leslie Phillips, Windsor Davies, Don Estelle and Ian Lavender. In the 1980s, Snoad worked on all six series of Don't Wait Up, starring Tony Britton, Nigel Havers and Dinah Sheridan which ran from 1983 to 1990. In 2009, Snoad recalled a joke