David Mitton (13 July 1938 – 16 May 2008) was a British television producer, director and writer, and an experienced model-maker and author, best known for producing and directing the children's TV programmes Thomas & Friends and Tugs. During the 1960s, he worked with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson as a special effects technician on series such as Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90, The Secret Service and UFO.

David Mitton was born in Preston, East Lothian and educated at The Strathallan School in Perthshire. On leaving school, he briefly attended art school before joining the Royal Navy air-sea rescue service and being assigned to Aden, in what is now Yemen in the Middle East.

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