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[[File:MarkThompsonUnderBBC.jpg|[[Mark Thompson]], the Director-General for much of the life of the [[BBC Wales]] version of ''[[Doctor Who]]''|thumb]]

The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the highest-ranking executive at the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]]. Their impact on the day-to-day production of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was generally quite indirect. They tended to set the tone that the ''Doctor Who'' production office then had to follow. However, there were some occasions on which the Director-General had a noticeably more profound impact, such as when [[Hugh Greene]] directly hired [[Sydney Newman]], or when [[Charles Curran]] apologised to [[Mary Whitehouse]] for the content of ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', then had [[Philip Hinchcliffe]] transferred to another programme.

Public support of ''Doctor Who'' from the Director-General has traditionally been rare. However, in [[September]] [[2012]], the newly-installed Director-General [[George Entwistle]] made a number of conspicuous and positive remarks about ''Doctor Who'', and even told {{wi|The Independent}} that he had gotten into television because of watching [[Jon Pertwee]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]''.