Barry Letts

Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of Doctor Who from 1969 to 1974. Born in Leicester, he worked as an actor in theatre, films and television before retiring in his early forties and becoming a television director. He then became the producer of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who for five years, overseeing almost the entirety of Jon Pertwee's tenure as the Third Doctor and casting Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. He produced or directed many of the BBC's Sunday Classic drama serials from 1976 to 1986, and returned to Doctor Who in 1980 to be the executive producer for its eighteenth season.

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Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

Release Date1962-01-02

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JobDirector

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Episode Count3

Vote Count6

The Cruel Sea

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer

Release Date1953-02-24

Charactersd Raikes

Vote Count77

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

Release Date1949-05-23

Charactersd Syd

Vote Count8

San Demetrio London

Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.

Release Date1943-12-07

Charactersd Apprentice John Jones - M.V. San Demetrio

Vote Count11

Scott of the Antarctic

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him

Release Date1948-11-29

Charactersd Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Vote Count39

The Small House at Allington

Dramatisation of Trollope's fifth novel set in the fictional county of Barsetshire.

Release Date1960-08-19

Charactersd Captain Bernard Dale

Episode Count6

To the Public Danger

Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.

Release Date1948-09-01

Charactersd Fred Lane

Vote Count9

Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster

A look at the making of the Doctor Who story, The Time Monster.

Release Date2023-03-20

Charactersd (archive footage)

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

The genesis and development of the Sontaran race through the history of the series, as told by some of the actors and production team involved. This specially produced documentary includes contributions from Terrance Dicks, Elisabeth Sladen, Anthony Read, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Bob Baker, Eric Saward and Stuart Fell.

Release Date2006-10-09

Charactersd (archival footage)

Vote Count1

Exodus

The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother in the shanty town, Dreamland, where she’s been ghettoised with other ‘undesirables’. He takes on his father, Pharaoh, and leads a radical campaign to liberate the people of Dreamland.

Release Date2007-09-04

Charactersd Professor Marcus

Vote Count2

Doctor Who: Inferno

UNIT is providing security cover at an experimental drilling project at Eastchester, designed to penetrate the Earth's crust and release a previously untapped source of energy. Soon, however, the drill head starts to leak an oily green liquid that transforms those who touch it into vicious primeval creatures with a craving for heat. The Doctor is accidentally transported "sideways in time" by the partially repaired TARDIS control console into a parallel universe where the drilling project is at a more advanced stage. Thwarted by his friends' ruthless alter egos, he works to save both universes.

Release Date1970-05-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Loudspeaker Voice

Vote Count4

Frieda

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.

Release Date1947-06-19

Charactersd Jim Merrick

Vote Count14

Reach for the Sky

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.

Release Date1956-07-05

Charactersd Tommy

Vote Count37

Come in Number Five

A special retrospective of Peter Davison's tenure as the Fifth Doctor.

Release Date2011-03-28

Charactersd (archive footage)

The Worst Journey in the World

Drama documentary exploring Captain Scott's 1912 Antarctic expedition, which saw him and two colleagues conducting scientific experiments in harsh conditions for two years.

Release Date2007-04-29

Charactersd Narrator

Vote Count2

30 Years in the TARDIS

A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material.

Release Date1993-11-29

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count3

Life on Earth

A documentary about the making of Terror of the Autons. Actors Katy Manning and Richard Franklin, both of whom made their debuts in this story, recount the production with the help of Jon Pertwee (through an archive interview), Script Editor Terrance Dicks and Producer Barry Letts who, along with new series Producer Phil Collinson, discuss how the series' production regimes differed between the new series and the old.

Release Date2011-05-09

Charactersd Self

The Doctor's Moriarty

With the introduction of the Master, the Doctor now had his very own Moriarty, who would be the dark figure behind every story in Season 8, and many more beyond that. This documentary discusses the enduring appeal of the character.

Release Date2011-05-09

Charactersd Self

Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals

Behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running sci-fi drama. There are tales of stunts that went dangerously wrong and secrets of how the crew brought monsters to life, as well as revelations about how some storylines proved to be so scary the BBC were forced to re-edit episodes.

Release Date2023-11-25

Charactersd Self - archive

Vote Count3

Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who

A documentary about the writer Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks.

Release Date2007-11-06

Charactersd Self

EastEnders

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

Release Date1985-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count22

Vote Count218

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Release Date1963-11-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count29

Vote Count678

Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate

The Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 encounter the enslaved time-sensitive Tharils, who lead them to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a spaceship - a dimension that might be the key to escaping E-Space.

Release Date1981-01-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Autons and killer plastic daffodils - unless the Doctor, joined by new assistant Jo Grant, can stop them.

Release Date1971-01-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war between Earth and Draconia.

Release Date1973-03-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count3

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

When scientists start to go missing in the 20th century, the Doctor is called in by the Brigadier to investigate. His investigations lead him to deduce that they are being kidnapped through time and he sets off in pursuit, unknowingly kidnapping journalist Sarah Jane Smith in the process. Arriving in the middle ages, the Doctor and Sarah find themselves caught up in the machinations of the robber baron Irongron and his man from the stars. The alien, a Sontaran named Linx, is arming him with modern weapons in return for helping him repair his damaged ship, and it's up to the Doctor and Sarah to stop him from ruining the Earth's timeline.

Release Date1974-01-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Doctor Who: Colony in Space

When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation.

Release Date1971-05-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Doctor Who: State of Decay

Still trapped in E-Space, the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 encounter a medieval civilisation dominated by the Three Who Rule, vampires who govern from their mighty castle.

Release Date1980-12-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken

The Doctor and Adric learn from the wizened Keeper of Traken that a great evil has come to his planet in the form of a Melkur - a calcified statue. The Keeper of Traken is nearing the end of his reign and seeks the Doctor's help in preventing the evil from taking control of the bioelectronic source that is the keystone of the Traken Union's civilisation.

Release Date1981-02-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4

Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

The Doctor returns to Peladon fifty years after his last visit, to find Queen Thalira, daughter of the late King Peladon, on the throne. A tense labour dispute between Pel nobility and miners is worsened when apparitions of their deity Aggedor attack and kill several miners. The Galactic Federation desperately needs trisilicate for its war against Galaxy 5 and sends in brutal Ice Warrior troopers to ensure production. The Doctor discovers a devious plot at the heart of Aggedor's appearances.

Release Date1974-04-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis, where a takeover by the Argolins' historic enemy is underway.

Release Date1980-09-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. It turns out the dinosaurs are being brought to London via a time machine to further a plan to revert London to a pre-technological level.

Release Date1974-02-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

The blue crystal that the Doctor took from Metebelis III in a previous adventure is desperately sought by the Eight Legs, a race of mutated spiders, as the final element in their plan for universal domination. With help from an old mentor, the Doctor realises the only way to foil the plot is to make the ultimate sacrifice. The Doctor must risk death to return to the cave of the Great One and save the universe.

Release Date1974-06-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric, intelligent reptiles who went into hibernation before man evolved. But now they have woken up, and they are prepared to wipe out mankind with a killer plague to get their planet back.

Release Date1970-03-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

Doctor Who: The Mutants

The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in the 30th century. They are caught quickly in a power struggle between the cruel Marshal of Solos and the young Solonian Ky over the future of Solos - a future that hinges on the contents of the message.

Release Date1972-05-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss is a British television drama adaptation of George Eliot's 1860 novel of the same name about the lives of rural 19th century siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver.

Release Date1978-12-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Dæmos Rising

Trapped in an isolated cottage, Captain Cavendish thinks he is seeing ghosts. The only person who might understand and help is Kate Lethbridge-Stewart ... but when she arrives, she realises that Cavendish is key in a plot to summon the Daemons back to the Earth. With time running out, Kate discovers that sometimes even the familiar can turn out to be your worst nightmare.

Release Date2004-03-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Consultant

Vote Count3

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and woods stalked by white-clad figures.

Release Date1975-11-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time. The creature is summoned but proves to be uncontrollable.

Release Date1972-06-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count3

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Prison for a demonstration, things start to go horribly wrong - especially when they discover that the Doctor's old enemy the Master is responsible for the machine.

Release Date1971-03-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

On the eve of May Day, dark elemental forces begin to disturb the village of Devil's End as the Master summons the demon Azal: unexplained murders, a stone gargoyle come to life, and a nigh-impenetrable infernal energy dome. With the Master fully prepared to destroy the Earth, the Doctor and UNIT - aided by a benevolent practitioner of witchcraft - battle the wicked rites of a secret science wielded by an alien from another world.

Release Date1971-06-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Doctor Who: The Green Death

The Doctor and UNIT investigate a deadly infection lurking underneath the Welsh mining town of Llanfairfach. It's an adventure that will change Jo Grant's life forever...

Release Date1973-06-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

The Doctor and Jo find themselves trapped inside an alien peepshow machine which showman Vorg and his assistant Shirna have brought to amuse the populace of the planet Inter Minor. Can they escape Vorg and the ferocious Drashigs?

Release Date1973-02-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Tales of the Tardis

Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.

Release Date2023-11-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

The planet Peladon has applied to join the Galactic Federation, and The Doctor is mistaken for the chairman of the committee sent to assess its application, while Jo is taken for an Earth princess, with the mythical curse of Aggedor apparently striking chancellor Torbis dead, The Doctor must discover who is desperate to stop Peladon joining, but soon he is sentenced to death and his only Allies seem to be Jo and the Ice Warrior Delegates.

Release Date1972-02-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

Doctor Who: Robot

The newly-regenerated Doctor helps UNIT battle a sentient robot being manipulated by a corrupt scientific organization.

Release Date1975-01-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the scientist/politician Salamander. He is hailed as the "shopkeeper of the world" for his efforts to relieve global famine, but why do his rivals keep disappearing? How can he predict so many natural disasters? The Doctor must expose Salamander's schemes before he takes over the world.

Release Date1968-01-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Doctor Who: Full Circle

On the planet Alzarius in the alternate universe of E-Space, the Doctor, Romana and K9 find survivors of a crashed starliner, strange creatures lurking in the marshes and a genetic riddle which stretches back centuries.

Release Date1980-11-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count3

The Invisible Man

A deranged scientist discovers a formula by which to make himself invisible, but is driven mad by his inability to reverse the formula and is evoked to use his invisibility to terrorise those around him.

Release Date1984-09-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Jane Eyre

A young governess falls in love with her mysterious employer, but a terrible secret puts their happiness at risk.

Release Date1983-10-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count11

Vote Count28

Treasure Island

Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver have plans to take the treasure for themselves by way of mutiny.

Release Date1977-10-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords' past hell-bent on destruction. The only way to defeat him is to break the First Law of Time and let the Doctor help himself — literally...

Release Date1973-01-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count11

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

Guerillas time-jump back from the 22nd century to assassinate Sir Reginald Styles - a diplomat working for World Peace, The Doctor discovers they are from a future where the Daleks have invaded the Earth (Following wars precipitated by Styles's destruction at the peace conference). With the Daleks desperate to maintain their version of history, The Doctor and Jo find themselves in a totalitarian future, where they must discover who really happened and prevent it.

Release Date1972-01-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island off the south coast of England. The governor, Colonel Trenchard, says ships have been disappearing mysteriously at sea. The Doctor discovers that Trenchard and the Master are in league to contact the Sea Devils, a race of reptiles in hibernation in a base beneath the sea, who have been awoken by recent work on a nearby sea fort. The Master intends to use his new allies to help him conquer the world!

Release Date1972-04-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

On the jungle planet Spiridon, the Doctor, Jo and a Thal group find a slumbering army of Daleks ready to awaken.

Release Date1973-05-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

Release Date1977-03-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Release Date1979-12-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count9

Vote Count1

The Hound of the Baskervilles

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. A British television serial based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.

Release Date1982-10-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count4

Vote Count5

The Prisoner of Zenda

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

Release Date1984-11-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Sense and Sensibility

A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility.

Release Date1981-02-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count7

Vote Count11

Doctor Who: Meglos

On the lush planet Tigella, two opposing factions are divided over the usage of the Dodecahedron, an ancient and powerful artefact which provides the entire planet's energy. The Doctor is summoned to arbitrate the conflict, but the power-crazed Meglos intercepts the call and impersonates him in order to steal the Dodecahedron.

Release Date1980-10-18

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1986-10-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count4

A Tale of Two Cities

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

Release Date1980-10-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

An energy drain traps the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith on the planet Exxilon with its hostile natives, causing the travellers to make an uneasy alliance with a Marine Space Corps expedition and a squadron of Daleks. The key to escape for all of them lies at the heart of a powerful and mysterious lost city, but only after a series of deadly traps.

Release Date1974-03-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son is a television mini-series produced by the BBC in 1983. It was based on the book Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens. It was adapted by James Andrew Hall and directed by Rodney Bennett.

Release Date1983-01-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count10

Vote Count3

Gulliver in Lilliput

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu.

Release Date1982-01-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Doctor Who: Logopolis

After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe.

Release Date1981-03-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count5

Moonbase 3

The adventures of David Caulder and his crew stationed on Moonbase 3.

Release Date1973-09-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1981-10-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count13

Vote Count2

Stalky & Co

Stalky & Co. is a faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name (less one chapter and the afterstory chapter). Kipling was telling tales based on his own public school experiences as a boy (he is 'Beetle' in the book), and he did an excellent job of capturing the tenor of life in 'the Coll,' a school that catered to boys who would go on to govern and defend the British Empire in the Civil Service, Foreign Service and the military.

Release Date1982-01-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Goodbye Mr Chips

Goodbye Mr Chips is a 1984 BBC television miniseries based on James Hilton's 1934 novella of the same name. Adapted by Alexander Baron and directed by Gareth Davies, the six-episode serial stars Roy Marsden as the title character. Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Charles Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.

Release Date1984-01-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Pinocchio

Based on the Carlo Collodi book, a macabre 4 part BBC live action Alec Drysdale dramatisation, directed by legendary Doctor Who producer Barry Letts.

Release Date1978-12-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count4

The Swish of the Curtain

Seven kids form a theatre troupe, staging plays for family and friends. Seeking recognition and the coveted Seymore Trophy, they utilize their talents while overcoming parental doubts.

Release Date1980-04-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count4

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

Astronauts rescued from a mission to mars are kidnapped when they arrive back on earth. They seem to have been irradiated, and can now kill people merely by touching them. But the Doctor discovers the astronauts have been replaced with Alien ambassadors who are being forced to behave in a hostile manner. With The Doctor traveling to the alien mother ship, and Liz kidnapped, The Brigadier is left wondering who to trust.

Release Date1970-05-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...

Release Date1971-04-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Adventure Weekly

Release Date1968-12-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

Release Date1961-01-07

Episode Count1

Vote Count143

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.

Release Date1959-09-16

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Maigret

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.

Release Date1960-10-31

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Softly, Softly

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

Release Date1966-01-05

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Warriors of Mars

A brief history of the Ice Warriors in Doctor Who by the people who designed and brought them to life.

Release Date2010-01-18

The Tin Men and the Witch

The making of Revenge of the Cybermen, with director Michael E Briant, incoming producer Philip Hinchcliffe and outgoing producer Barry Letts.

Release Date2010-08-09

Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

With a writing career spanning 6 decades, this special documentary looks at Terrance Dicks' work for books and television, with contributions from many of his friends and colleagues. Featuring contributions from Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, Christopher Barry, Louis Marks, Eric Saward, Paul Cornell, Peter Darvill-Evans and Brenda Gardner.

Release Date2005-01-17

The Story of Doctor Who

Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series.

Release Date2003-12-30

Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation

A look at an extraordinary era of musical experimentation within Doctor Who, with special emphasis on the musical scores for Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Sea Devils. Featuring producer Barry Letts, composer Mark Ayres and directors Timothy Combe, Christopher Barry and Michael Briant, with an archive appearance from Radiophonic composer Malcolm Clarke.

Release Date2008-01-14

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

A special 50-minute documentary that looks at the making of The Hand of Fear, and also examines the special relationship between the Doctor and his companion, Sarah Jane Smith.

Release Date2006-07-24

Vote Count1

The Frighten Factor

What exactly is Doctor Who's 'Frighten Factor'? A diverse panel of experts try to answer the question.

Release Date2009-05-11

Vote Count1

Hello Sailor!

Cast and crew discuss the making of The Sea Devils, from the television series Doctor Who.

Release Date2008-01-14

IMC Needs You!

Cast and crew look back at the making of Colony in Space.

Release Date2011-10-03

The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

In the far future, the remaining population of an oxygen-depleted planet Earth lies in enforced stasis in The Field of Dreams. Looking for ideas to help him re-connect to his captive audience, Zed, a young scenariosmith, turns to the world of Doctor Who for inspiration...

Release Date2009-10-05

City Beneath the Sea

Release Date1962-11-17

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

The Silver Sword

Release Date1957-11-24

Episode Count7

Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

By her own admission, Katy Manning is ‘as blind as a bat’ and never knows where she’ll end up. When she suddenly arrived in the UK, Katy was probably as surprised as the rest of us! Determined to thank the legion of Doctor Who fans who had written and supported her during her years abroad, Katy embarked on a whirlwind tour of British conventions and shops before leaving (yet again) for Australia… Along the way bump into Nicholas Courtney, Richard Franklin, John Leeson, Sophie Aldred, Sylvester McCoy, Michael Sheard and other surprise guest stars!

Release Date1998-01-01

Vote Count1

Doctor Who and the Third Man

A retrospective documentary on the tenure of Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor in the show Doctor Who.

Release Date2019-07-08

Roger Delgado: The Master

A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those who knew and loved him.

Release Date2009-10-05

Are Friends Electric?

This documentary examines Tom Baker's introduction as the Doctor and the making of his first story, Robot.

Release Date2007-06-04

The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

Continuing his search for inspiration, Zed resumes his studies of twentieth-century television's Doctor Who. What he finds will have a profound effect...

Release Date2009-10-05