Verity Lambert

Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek, Love Soup and Eldorado. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963, she was BBC Television's only female drama producer, as well as the youngest. The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media". The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Description above from the Wikipedia article Verity Lambert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

She's Out
10.0

She's Out

Dolly Rawlins is free again. She has served the eight year prison sentence for her husband's murder and is now set to collect the six million pounds worth of diamonds that she stashed before she was sent down. The money will enable her to follow her dreams and start a new life. But her former cell mates have their own ideas...

Release Date1995-03-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

The Cazalets
8.5

The Cazalets

The Cazalets is a 2001 television drama series about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex. The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, and adapted by the screenwriter Douglas Livingstone. The series was originally produced by Cinema Verity for BBC One and is available on DVD.

Release Date2001-06-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count4

Dr. Forever!
8.0

Dr. Forever!

Dr. Forever! was a five-part series of documentary featurettes that were included on several Doctor Who DVD releases.

Release Date2013-03-11

CharacterHerself

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

Love Soup
8.0

Love Soup

Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.

Release Date2005-09-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count18

Vote Count5

7.9

Doctor Who: The Romans

The TARDIS crew take up residence near Rome in 64AD, where Ian and Barbara are kidnapped by slave traders, and the Doctor's imitation of Maximus Pettulian sees him taken to the court of Emperor Nero where he inadvertently plays a part in deciding the course of history...

Release Date1965-02-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

Doctor Who
7.9

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

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count81

Vote Count655

7.7

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler

In England, 1066, the Doctor confronts a mysterious Monk who is attempting to change history.

Release Date1965-07-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

7.6

Doctor Who: The Aztecs

The TARDIS materialises inside an Aztec tomb. Outside it, the Doctor and his companions soon discover that Mexico in the 15th century is a bloodthirsty and dangerous place... And with Barbara mistaken for a reincarnation of an ancient high priest called Yetaxa, the history teacher thinks that she can put an end to the barbaric human sacrifices once and for all. But can she rewrite history without disastrous consequences?

Release Date1964-06-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

Jonathan Creek
7.5

Jonathan Creek

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

Release Date1997-05-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

Vote Count64

7.5

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

CharacterHerself

Vote Count3

Adam Adamant Lives!
7.5

Adam Adamant Lives!

Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.

Release Date1966-06-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count29

Vote Count4

7.4

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, two humble teachers during 1963, discover a genius student's grandfather, simply known as "the Doctor", and his police box time machine. Deciding that the pair knows too much about his otherworldly origins, they are whisked away on a journey through time and space.

Release Date1963-11-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count16

Sleepers
7.3

Sleepers

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been "lost." A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counter-plots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

Release Date1991-04-10

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count4

Vote Count5

7.3

Macbeth

Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes.

Release Date1979-02-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count10

7.3

Doctor Who: Marco Polo

The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fabled Silk Road to see the Emperor Kublai Khan. The story concerns the Doctor and his companions' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.

Release Date1964-04-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

7.2

Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth

The TARDIS arrives in a desolate future London, where the Doctor discovers his old enemies the Daleks have taken control of Earth.

Release Date1964-12-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

7.2

Doctor Who: The Daleks

The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Susan, Barbara, and Ian to the planet Skaro where they meet two indigenous races — the Daleks, malicious mutant creatures encased in armoured travel machines, and the Thals, beautiful humanoids with pacifist principles. They convince the Thals of the need to fight for their own survival.

Release Date1964-02-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count21

Reilly: Ace of Spies
7.0

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

Release Date1983-09-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count12

Vote Count20

Widows
7.0

Widows

Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their widows--Dolly Rawlins, Shirley Miller, and Linda Pirelli--find their husbands' plans for the robbery and decide to stage it themselves.

Release Date1983-03-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count12

Vote Count6

7.0

Doctor Who: Planet of Giants

When the TARDIS malfunctions, it and its travellers land on Earth at the size of insects. They uncover a murderous plot involving a new insecticide, but how can they stop the crime in their miniaturised condition?

Release Date1964-11-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

So Haunt Me
6.8

So Haunt Me

So Haunt Me is a British television sitcom about a family that moves into a home occupied by the ghost of its previous resident, a middle-aged Jewish mother. The show was produced by Cinema Verity for the BBC and originally aired from 1992 to 1994. Peter Rokeby loses his job as advertising copywriter, and resolves to become a freelance writer. Owing to this change in circumstances, he and his wife Sally move with their children into a more modest home in Meadow Road, Willesden. The family soon finds that the ghost of a previous owner, Yetta Feldman, still occupies the residence, and has been scaring occupants away for years. Yetta is a stereotypical interfering, middle-aged Jewish mother who died suddenly after choking on a chicken bone. While Sally can both see and speak to their ghost, Peter — much to his frustration — initially cannot. The family agrees to help Yetta find her grown-up daughter Carole. So Haunt Me aired on BBC1 as 18 half-hour episodes in three series and one special from 1992 to 1994. The show was created by Paul Mendelson. The Rokeby children David and Tammy were played by Jeremy Green and Laura Howard respectively. Neighbour Mr Bloom was played by David Graham.

Release Date1992-02-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count19

Vote Count5

Minder
6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Release Date1979-10-29

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count24

6.8

The Naked Civil Servant

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

Release Date1975-12-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count40

6.7

Evil Angels

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

Release Date1988-11-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count215

May to December
6.7

May to December

Comedy about a Pinner solictor who falls for a woman half his age.

Release Date1989-04-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count38

Vote Count6

6.7

Dreamchild

Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a close friendship with the writer, and their relationship was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she realizes the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.

Release Date1985-10-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count32

Quatermass
6.6

Quatermass

In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.

Release Date1979-10-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Vote Count16

6.6

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.

Release Date1964-09-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

G.B.H.
6.5

G.B.H.

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.

Release Date1991-06-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count15

6.5

The Last Moguls

Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!

Release Date1986-05-23

CharacterSelf

Vote Count2

6.5

Doctor Who: The Space Museum

On the planet Xeros, the TARDIS crew discover their own future selves frozen in time as exhibits in a galactic museum and must avert this potential future.

Release Date1965-05-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

6.3

Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour

The very first crew of the TARDIS land in a petrified forest on an alien planet. Determined to explore, the Doctor leads his companions into the metal city, where they discover danger at every corner and what will become his deadliest enemy... the mutant Daleks. It's time to encounter the Daleks once again, but this time in a way you've never seen them before. Originally transmitted in December 1963 to February 1964, the seven original episodes of the first Dalek story have received a cosmic makeover, dazzlingly colourised and woven together into a 75-minute blockbuster with brand-new sound and a brand-new score created by Mark Ayres. The Daleks has been gloriously updated, whilst ensuring the original story remains as thrilling as it was in 1963.

Release Date2023-11-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

6.2

Clockwise

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.

Release Date1986-03-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count197

6.2

Link

Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.

Release Date1986-02-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count122

6.2

Doctor Who: The Chase

The Doctor and his companions are pursued through time and space by the Daleks on the desert planet Aridius and beyond.

Release Date1965-06-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

6.2

Doctor Who: The Crusade

In 12th century Palestine, the Doctor and his friends are drawn into the holy war between the forces of King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen ruler Saladin.

Release Date1965-04-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

6.2

Doctor Who: The Rescue

On the planet Dido, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara meet two survivors from a crashed spaceship who are terrorised by the monster Koquillion.

Release Date1965-01-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Boys from the Bush
6.0

Boys from the Bush

BBC comedy-drama series about the life of Reg Toomer (Tim Healy), an ex-pat Briton living in Australia and running Melbourne Confidential, a failing private detective agency with his shifty business partner Dennis Tontine. His estranged young cousin Leslie arrives in Melbourne from the United Kingdom after a painful divorce looking for fun and excitement in the new world, instead he finds himself used as a drone for Melbourne Confidential.

Release Date1991-01-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count20

Vote Count5

The Flame Trees of Thika
6.0

The Flame Trees of Thika

Elspeth and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nature, and new friendships with both Africans and British expatriates. A side plot involves the beautiful and bored British Lettice Palmer who enters into an affair with a handsome safari guide. Eventually, however, the excitement of Elspeth's life is disrupted by the onset of WW I, and the changes it brings.

Release Date1981-09-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

6.0

The Sailor's Return

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community.

Release Date1978-11-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count5

Rock Follies
6.0

Rock Follies

Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a musical drama shown on British television in the 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and two series, followed the ups and downs of a fictional female rock band called the "Little Ladies" as they struggled for recognition and success. The series starred Rula Lenska, Charlotte Cornwell and Julie Covington as the Little Ladies, with support from Emlyn Price, Beth Porter, Sue Jones-Davies, Stephen Moore and Little Nell among others. The series was made with a very low budget for Thames Television, with a style inspired by fringe theatre. The series was a success, winning three BAFTA Awards and the soundtrack album reaching No.1 in the UK Charts.

Release Date1976-02-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count12

Vote Count4

5.9

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Marinus on an island of glass surrounded by a sea of acid. The travellers are forced by the elderly Arbitan to retrieve four of the five operating keys to a machine called the Conscience of Marinus, of which he is the keeper. These have been hidden in different locations around the planet to prevent them falling into the hands of the evil Yartek and his Voord warriors, who plan to seize the machine and use its originally benevolent mind-influencing power for their own sinister purposes.

Release Date1964-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count11

Fox
5.7

Fox

Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980. The thirteen-part series was based around the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in London and had gangland connections. The series was written by Trevor Preston, produced by Verity Lambert and directed by Jim Goddard.

Release Date1980-03-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count13

Vote Count3

5.7

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4

The Doctor, Vicki and Steven arrive on an arid planet where they meet the beautiful Drahvins and the hideous Rills. Each has crash-landed after a confrontation in space. The Rills are friendly, compassionate explorers. The Drahvins are dull-witted, cloned soldiers, terrorised by the intelligent, warlike matriarch Maaga.

Release Date1965-10-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count3

5.7

Doctor Who: The Web Planet

On the planet Vortis, the Doctor and his companions aid the butterfly-like Menoptra in their battle against the parasitic Animus and its mind-controlled minions, the ant-like Zarbi.

Release Date1965-03-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

5.7

Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction

In this completely TARDIS-based story, the crew find themselves and their ship acting very strangely indeed. Blame runs high for the Ship's unusual behavior, until the Doctor realizes the TARDIS itself may be trying to warn them...

Release Date1964-02-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count16

A Perfect State
5.0

A Perfect State

A Perfect State was a 1997 British situation comedy starring Gwen Taylor, Richard Hope, Trevor Cooper, Emma Amos and Danny Webb. It debuted on BBC1 on Thursday 27 February 1997 and ran for seven episodes. Taylor took the leading role of Laura Fitzgerald, the Deputy Mayor of Flatby, a town on the East Coast of England. As the series begins, she is informed that because Flatby was never surveyed for the Domesday Book, it has never officially been annexed into the United Kingdom. As a result, and much to the chagrin of the Government in London, Laura rallies the townsfolk to declare Flatby an independent state. Most of the filming was carried out in Wivenhoe in Essex.

Release Date1997-02-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

Shoulder to Shoulder
5.0

Shoulder to Shoulder

The lives of the Pankhurst women and their role in the Suffragette Movement.

Release Date1974-04-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

5.0

Doctor Who: The Sensorites

The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in the TARDIS on board a spaceship. Their initial concern is for the ship's human crew, who are suffering from telepathic interference from the Sensorites, but Susan communicates with the Sensorites and finds the aliens fear an attack by the humans and are just defending themselves. Travelling to the Sense Sphere (the Sensorites' planet) the Doctor seeks to cure an illness to which the Sensorites and Ian have succumbed, but finds it has been caused by deliberate poisoning. The political manoeuvring of the Sensorite City Administrator poses another threat to the TARDIS crew as he seeks to discredit and implicate them.

Release Date1964-08-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

4.7

Morons from Outer Space

The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...

Release Date1985-03-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count43

4.6

Saigon: Year Of The Cat

The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.

Release Date1983-11-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

Tales of the Tardis
4.4

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 Count5

4.3

American Roulette

Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4

1.0

Stainless Steel and the Star Spies

The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collides with another craft – sending the Kleptonite Ball, their precious cargo and the key to Universal Conquest, hurtling to a planet inhabited by primitive life forms: Earth. Having materialised in a bar, the Ball variously functions as a Christmas tree decoration, a bathroom ornament, and a fortune-teller's prop. The Metaliens must retrieve the Kleptonite Ball if their mission is ever to succeed. And that's when their problems really begin…

Release Date1981-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

1.0

Achilles Heel

A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.

Release Date1973-03-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years Behind The Scenes

Presented by “voice of the Daleks” Nicholas Briggs, these six documentaries are the best in-depth interviews with: Verity Lambert (Producer), John Wiles (Producer), Donald Tosh (Script Editor), Waris Hussein (Director), Dennis Spooner (Writer), Paul Erickson (Writer) and Tristram Cary (Composer), plus actors Lyn Ashley, Susanna Carroll, John Cater, Edward De Souza and Fiona Walker, ever undertaken!!!

Release Date2021-08-30

The Celestial Toyroom

A brief overview of the history of Doctor Who toys and related products, presented by Ayesha Antoine. Such toys include the first Daleks made during the initial run of the program and the massive impact they had along with Dalekmania. Other topics include other figures produced over the years such as with the Dapol toy line as well as a look at the modern action figures produced by toy company Character Options.

Release Date2013-03-11

Don't Lose Your Head

Don't Lose Your Head was a DVD documentary concerning Doctor Who that was released on 28 January 2013.

Release Date2012-01-28

CharacterHerself (archive footage)

Vision On

Vision On was a documentary of Clive Doig discussing the role of the vision mixer in making early Doctor Who episodes, including footage and discussion of studio mishaps that occurred on screen.

Release Date2012-01-23

Character(archive footage)

Verity Lambert: Drama Queen

A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.

Release Date2008-04-05

Character(Archive Footage)

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.

Release Date2007-02-03

CharacterSelf

Creation of the Daleks

The cast and crew's memories of the creation of the Daleks and the making of The Daleks.

Release Date2006-01-31

CharacterHerself

Doctor Who: Origins

A 55-minute documentary, detailing the creation of Doctor Who, including a rare interview with creator Sydney Newman, and new interviews with producer Verity Lambert, directors Waris Hussein and Richard Martin, actors William Russell and Carole Ann Ford, title sequence designer Bernard Lodge, and TARDIS sound effect creator Brian Hodgson

Release Date2006-01-30

CharacterSelf

Masters of Sound

Documentary on the sound effects of Doctor Who in the 1960s.

Release Date2006-01-30

CharacterSelf (archive footage)

Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS

A feature on Doctor Who: The Beginning box set which tells the stories of the Doctor's time machine - the TARDIS.

Release Date2006-01-30

CharacterSelf

Over the Edge: The Story of "The Edge of Destruction"

Documents the making of the Doctor Who Serial, "The Edge of Destruction". It was released on the DVD of the serial and hence in The Beginning box set.

Release Date2006-01-30

CharacterSelf

The Story of Doctor Who

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

Release Date2003-12-30

Remembering 'The Aztecs'

The guest actors of the 1964 "Doctor Who" (1963) story, "The Aztecs", reminisce about their time on the programme and making the series.

Release Date2002-10-21

CharacterSelf (in photo) (archive footage)

Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell

As the very first Doctor, William Hartnell created the character that made Doctor Who a success. No other actor made such a lasting contribution to the programme or influenced it so greatly. In this special Myth Makers, Nicholas Briggs meets William’s friends, colleagues and family and explores the personality of this shy, complex and private man. With contributions from William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Verity Lambert, Michael Craze, Anneke Wills, Donald Tosh, Christopher Barry and a revealing interview with Jack Pitt, who was an extra in Doctor Who and shared William’s flat in London. Also featured is Jessica Carney, who has written a biography of the grandfather’s life titled Who’s There? This is not just a Myth Makers tribute… it’s almost a chance to meet the man himself.

Release Date1999-06-02

A Night in with the Girls

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

Release Date1997-03-15

Running Late

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.

Release Date1992-10-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Sleepers

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

Release Date1991-04-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Doctor Who Then & Now

Doctor Who Then & Now

Television special about the origins of Doctor Who, featuring interviews with directors, creators, and actors.

Release Date1987-01-01

Episode Count1

The Nation's Health

The Nation's Health

The Nation's Health is a 4 episode series written by G.F.Newman based on his book of the same name, originally broadcast on the fledgling Channel 4 UK TV channel in 1983. The series consists of four episodes that are, in order, titled: Acute, Decline, Chronic, and Collapse. In it we are faced with a maelstrom of political issues, illnesses, fatalities, personal greed and professional vanities. As may be clear from these titles, the series draws a relentlessly bleak view of the NHS in 1980s Britain. The protagonist of the series is a newly-qualified doctor, Jessie Marvill (Vivienne Ritchie). The series follows Jessie through four different sectors of the NHS, although the episodes are not focused entirely through Jessie: the NHS is seen from a variety of different perspectives, from doctors and patients to administrators and kitchen staff.

Release Date1983-10-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

A.D.A.M.

Roger Empson builds a house for his disabled wife Jean that is completed automated and monitored by a computer called A.D.A.M. (Automated Domestic Appliance Monitor). But things take a nasty turn when A.D.A.M. starts to develop feelings towards Jean...

Release Date1973-04-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown

On the planet Kembel, Space Security Service agent Marc Cory is investigating a recent sighting of a Dalek spaceship. His suspicion that the creatures may have established a base proves well-founded. He learns of a plot by the Daleks to invade and destroy the Solar System.

Release Date1965-10-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

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