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<div class="tr-box two"><h1>[[Donald Baverstock]]</h1>'''Donald Baverstock''' was the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] executive who set the the wheels in motion that eventually led to the creation of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Essentially the original commissioner of the programme, he hired [[Sydney Newman]] and later imposed a sense of financial responsibility upon its producer, [[Verity Lambert]]. By choosing to commission only a few weeks at a time, Baverstock managed to exercise very specific financial control over the production, threatening to end ''Doctor Who'' several times over the course of its first year. It was largely he that was responsible for preventing actors' salaries from massively inflating after the show became a surprise hit after the [[Dalek]]s were introduced.</div>
<div class="tr-box two"><h1>[[Donald Baverstock]]</h1>'''Donald Baverstock''' was the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] executive who set the the wheels in motion that eventually led to the creation of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Essentially the original commissioner of the programme, he hired [[Sydney Newman]] and later imposed a sense of financial responsibility upon its producer, [[Verity Lambert]]. By choosing to commission only a few weeks at a time, Baverstock managed to exercise very specific financial control over the production, threatening to end ''Doctor Who'' several times over the course of its first year. It was largely he that was responsible for preventing actors' salaries from massively inflating after the show became a surprise hit after the [[Dalek]]s were introduced.</div>
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<div class="tr-box three">The '''Quantel Paintbox''' was a graphics workstation that allowed ''[[Doctor Who]]'' to have a primitive form of [[colourist|colour grading]] in the [[1980s]].</div>
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Verity Lambert
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Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who, was born in London on 27 November 1935. She served as producer from An Unearthly Child to Mission to the Unknown. Her work on Doctor Who was the first time she had been a full producer and was one of the first times a woman had such a role in television. Lambert died on 22 November 2007, the very day before the forty-fourth anniversary of the show's debut.

Jane Tranter

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Jane Tranter was an important advocate for the return of Doctor Who to BBC One in the early 2000s.

Donald Baverstock

Donald Baverstock was the BBC executive who set the the wheels in motion that eventually led to the creation of Doctor Who. Essentially the original commissioner of the programme, he hired Sydney Newman and later imposed a sense of financial responsibility upon its producer, Verity Lambert. By choosing to commission only a few weeks at a time, Baverstock managed to exercise very specific financial control over the production, threatening to end Doctor Who several times over the course of its first year. It was largely he that was responsible for preventing actors' salaries from massively inflating after the show became a surprise hit after the Daleks were introduced.
The Quantel Paintbox was a graphics workstation that allowed Doctor Who to have a primitive form of colour grading in the 1980s.
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  1. ↑ Colditz. Big Finish, via Internet Archive. Retrieved on 7 November 2001.
  2. ↑ Nerf-Herders Anonymous
  3. ↑ The Guardian
  4. ↑ IMDb
  5. ↑ Twitter
  6. ↑ British Council Literature
  7. ↑ Aveleyman
  8. ↑ Doctor Who Guide
  9. ↑ People Pill
  10. ↑ DWM 572
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