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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. | 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]]''. | 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]]''. | ||
== In the DWU == | |||
By [[2003]], [[Jocelyn Stevens]] was Director-General of the BBC. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Global Conspiracy? (home video)|Global Conspiracy?]]'') | |||
One [[Director-General (Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life)|Director-General]] assisted the [[Fifth Doctor]] in defeating the [[Xyz]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (short story)|Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life]]'') | |||
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