Okay, I know that for a TV show that’s been running for 50+ years and gone through many different reimaginings, it must be hard to get all the creators in there. But where’s Verity Lambert? Come on! There was a whole separate TV show about how she got Doctor Who to the screen!
Every time she walked into the BBC in the morning she was glared at by everyone because she had taken this tiny little program that wasn’t supposed to be a success and made she’d made it the biggest thing on television! And all these people who thought they knew how television was made, hated her and would glare at her every day. Richard Martin said, ‘Verity dear, how do you manage it?’ And she said, ‘Well I just buy a new hat every day and I assume they are looking at that!’
A biography of Doctor Who’s first producer is to be published next January. Drama and Delight: The Life and Legacy of Verity Lambert is being written by Richard Marson and will be brought out by Miwk Publishing Ltd.
Not only was Lambert the show’s first producer, it was also her first TV programme as a producer, having been poached from commercial rival ABC by drama boss Sydney Newman. At the time, she was also the youngest and only female drama producer at the BBC.
Lambert went on to have a hugely successful and influential career in TV production, becoming a head of drama herself – at Thames Television – and later setting up her own production company. She received an OBE in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to film and television production, and that same year also saw her presented with BAFTA’s Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television. She died of cancer in 2007 at the age of 71.
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They’re doing a Verity biography! Yay this will be really interesting.
