RIP: Verity Lambert
Guardian obituary is a little h'mmmm-some:
Verity Lambert, who has died aged 71 of cancer, will always be remembered as the presiding genius behind Doctor Who, the science-fiction romp which has intermittently flourished on television for nearly 45 years. [...]
She contrived to get an opening in ABC Television, where Sydney Newman was in charge of production. Lambert's enthusiasm caught his eye. She worked on the regular Sunday night Armchair Theatre, and when Newman was headhunted by the BBC in 1963 she was one of several colleagues he took with him. Doctor Who, dreamed up by Newman himself with the writer Terry Nation, and starring William Hartnell, was an immediate project. Lambert was involved from the outset, and for the second batch of episodes was producer, credited with introducing the most celebrated of the doctor's adversaries, the Daleks.
This gives Nation a little too much credit, I'd think.
Verity Lambert, who has died aged 71 of cancer, will always be remembered as the presiding genius behind Doctor Who, the science-fiction romp which has intermittently flourished on television for nearly 45 years. [...]
She contrived to get an opening in ABC Television, where Sydney Newman was in charge of production. Lambert's enthusiasm caught his eye. She worked on the regular Sunday night Armchair Theatre, and when Newman was headhunted by the BBC in 1963 she was one of several colleagues he took with him. Doctor Who, dreamed up by Newman himself with the writer Terry Nation, and starring William Hartnell, was an immediate project. Lambert was involved from the outset, and for the second batch of episodes was producer, credited with introducing the most celebrated of the doctor's adversaries, the Daleks.
This gives Nation a little too much credit, I'd think.