Darrell Vickers is an English-Canadian TV producer and writer based in the United States. He served as co-showrunner with Andrew Nicholls (officially credited as "supervisory producers") for season 1 of the TV series, and also co-wrote 11 episodes of the season, including the first 5 episodes as well as the finale.

Outside the W.I.T.C.H. franchise, he is primarily known for his other television writing collaborations with Nicholls. Together they served as the head writers of the final years of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and also produced and wrote for a number of Canadian animated series.

Behind the scenes

• Vickers briefly discusses working on the TV series in a multi-part reflection on his career, highlighting an executive objection to "imitable behavior" that was also mentioned in Nicholls' book Valuable Lessons.^[1][2]
  • The scene with the Guardians saving a train actually made it into the episode The Stone of Threbe, with Taranee nearly being hit by the oncoming train while repairing the tracks.
  • A Service to The Community also had them walking along train tracks to find a portal.

Credits

All of the following credits are shared with Andrew Nicholls.

• Season 1: supervisory producers
• It Begins (episode 1): written by
• It Resumes (episode 2): written by
• The Key (episode 3): written by
• Happy Birthday Will (episode 4): written by
• A Service to The Community (episode 5): written by
• Divide and Conquer (episode 7): written by
• Ambush At Torus Filney (episode 8): written by
• The Princess Revealed (episode 12): written by
• The Battle of The Meridian Plains (episode 23): written by
• The Stolen Heart (episode 25): written by
• The Final Battle (episode 26): written by

References

External links

• Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers on Wikipedia
• Darrell Vickers on IMDb