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'''Donald Baverstock''' was the [[Controller of BBC One]] who ordered [[Sydney Newman]] to create the Saturday tea time show that became ''[[Doctor Who]]''. He was significantly involved in the creation of the programme. | '''Donald Baverstock''' was the [[Controller of BBC One]] who ordered [[Sydney Newman]] to create the Saturday tea time show that became ''[[Doctor Who]]''. He was significantly involved in the creation of the programme. | ||
When [[Hugh Greene]], [[Director-General of the BBC]], decided to make Baverstock switch places with his [[BBC2]] counterpart in early [[1965]], Baverstock saw it as a demotion and resigned from the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]. In accordance with half of Greene's original plan, he was replaced by [[Michael Peacock]]. | |||
He then went on to Yorkshire Television where he helped to create, amongst other programmes, {{wi|Emmerdale Farm}}, the soap opera that would long employ ''[[Doctor Who]]'' actors from [[Frazer Hines]] to [[Jenna-Louise Coleman]]. | |||
== Fictional portrayals == | == Fictional portrayals == | ||
A caricature of him, called "Mr Borusa", was played by [[Mark Gatiss]] in ''[[The Pitch of Fear]]'', a broad fictionalisation of Newman's pitch meeting for ''Doctor Who''. | A caricature of him, called "Mr Borusa", was played by [[Mark Gatiss]] in ''[[The Pitch of Fear]]'', a broad fictionalisation of Newman's pitch meeting for ''Doctor Who''. | ||
