Milo Lewis worked as a director on Coronation Street with 12 episodes to his credit from February to June 1964. An actor in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he moved to directing with Associated Rediffusion when it began transmissions in 1955 and later worked on a number of sitcoms and variety shows including The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge, The Cyril Fletcher Show, Gert and Daisy, Tell It to the Marines, Foreign Affairs and The Frankie Howerd Show. For a period in the late 1960s he was the producer of the popular talent show Opportunity Knocks!.