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Just the right gust of fresh air needed to clear out the stuffy bureaucracy of the then BBC and take the corporation properly into the mid 1960's with innovation, gusto and popular appeal television, Canadian TV genius Sydney Newman was full of charm, charisma and bolshy aggression of the right kind in revolutionising the corporation's then upper class drama department after prior great success working for the rival ABC TV channel several year before. The idea of a science fiction series to fill the BBC's deficient Saturday pm teatime slot may have been in the planning for a while before his arrival (thanks to staff veterans C.E. Webber and Donald Wilson), but it was Newman who created that show's ultimate format and gave it the iconic title of Doctor Who. And his second master stroke linked to the series creation? Well, that was to bring in a female producer - a new first for a shocked, heavens-forbid attituded BBC of the time - to handle the creative duties: his popular, instinctive and equally ambitious young former secretary, Verity Lambert.
A legend was born, one that would soon hit its creative side into becoming an incredible international success story with viewers of all ages.
Pioneering Doctor Who - The Early Days - BBC Website
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