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}}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' ([[20 February (people)|20 February]] [[1913 (people)|1913]]-[[10 August (people)|10 August]] [[1996 (people)|1996]]<ref>[http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/person.php?name=RexTucker Doctor Who Guide]</ref>) [[director|directed]] the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television story ''[[The Gunfighters (TV story)|The Gunfighters]]'' and contributed to the lyrics of "[[The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon]]"<ref name="INFO: The Gunfighters">[[INFO]]: ''The Gunfighters''</ref>. However, he did request that his director's credit be removed from the closing captions of "[[The Gunfighters (TV story)|The O.K. Corral]]" following a disagreement with [[Innes Lloyd]] over the editing of the gunfight sequence<ref name="INFO: The Gunfighters">[[INFO]]: ''The Gunfighters''</ref>. He was credited for all the others. | }}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' ([[20 February (people)|20 February]] [[1913 (people)|1913]]-[[10 August (people)|10 August]] [[1996 (people)|1996]]<ref>[http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/person.php?name=RexTucker Doctor Who Guide]</ref>) [[director|directed]] the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television story ''[[The Gunfighters (TV story)|The Gunfighters]]'' and contributed to the lyrics of "[[The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon]]"<ref name="INFO: The Gunfighters">[[INFO]]: ''The Gunfighters''</ref>. However, he did request that his director's credit be removed from the closing captions of "[[The Gunfighters (TV story)|The O.K. Corral]]" following a disagreement with [[Innes Lloyd]] over the editing of the gunfight sequence<ref name="INFO: The Gunfighters">[[INFO]]: ''The Gunfighters''</ref>. He was credited for all the others. | ||
Tucker joined the BBC in 1937, working in the Radio department for several years before moving in work on television drama. | |||
Tucker also had a significant impact upon the very origins of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Despite a lack of screen credit, he was the programme's first [[producer]]. Appointed in May 1963 as an "interim" or "caretaker" producer until [[Sydney Newman]] could find a permanent replacement, Tucker was also, for many months, the [[director]] of ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]''. Had the show been filmed for its original 24 August 1963 launch date, he would have been ''Doctor Who''{{'}}s first director. | Tucker also had a significant impact upon the very origins of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Despite a lack of screen credit, he was the programme's first [[producer]]. Appointed in May 1963 as an "interim" or "caretaker" producer until [[Sydney Newman]] could find a permanent replacement, Tucker was also, for many months, the [[director]] of ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]''. Had the show been filmed for its original 24 August 1963 launch date, he would have been ''Doctor Who''{{'}}s first director. | ||
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He also began the process of staffing for the show. He was the original point of contact between ''Doctor Who'' and [[Tristram Cary]]. Though Cary would ultimately not provide the [[Doctor Who theme|theme]] and [[incidental music]] for the first [[serial]], he would be in place to score ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'' and ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'', cementing some musical punctuation into the fabric of ''Doctor Who''. Tucker would also bring back Cary for ''The Gunfighters''. | He also began the process of staffing for the show. He was the original point of contact between ''Doctor Who'' and [[Tristram Cary]]. Though Cary would ultimately not provide the [[Doctor Who theme|theme]] and [[incidental music]] for the first [[serial]], he would be in place to score ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'' and ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'', cementing some musical punctuation into the fabric of ''Doctor Who''. Tucker would also bring back Cary for ''The Gunfighters''. | ||
Tucker was also involved in initial casting. He was the first person to offer the role of [[the Doctor]] to an actor, [[Hugh David]]; he also held casting sessions for the part of [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and Miss McGovern, a character who would become [[Barbara Wright]]. As with the Doctor, he was not able to select an actor for either of these parts. | Tucker was also involved in initial casting. He was the first person to offer the role of [[the Doctor]] to an actor, [[Hugh David]]; he also held casting sessions for the part of [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and Miss McGovern, a character who would become [[Barbara Wright]]. As with the Doctor, he was not able to select an actor for either of these parts. Notably, when later casting ''The Gunfighters, ''his initial casting choice for [[Johnny Ringo]] was [[Patrick Troughton]] but he declined the role.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5LhY4XxFjdNj8PXmhBKg2dT/rex-tucker</ref> | ||
He was also responsible for | He was also responsible for tempering [[C. E. Webber]]'s contributions to early ''Doctor Who''. He rejected Webber's ''The Giants'', the first of three attempts to write a story about a miniaturised [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] crew. This story would have been the programme's first serial, the one Tucker was slated to direct. Instead, Donald Wilson and he tapped [[Anthony Coburn]] to bring his story, then called ''The Tribe of Gum'', to the first position, but to rewrite it so that it incorporated some elements of Webber's first episode. | ||
He was known to have worked out a production schedule for the first serial that would have allowed recording to begin about 19 July 1963. On 1 July, however, [[Donald Baverstock]]'s office informed the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' office that the series would not begin transmission until 9 November. This meant that the recording of ''The Tribe of Gum'', as it was still known, would largely happen whilst Tucker was on his scheduled vacation. For a brief time, he was assigned to the second story and then bumped to the fourth story, which was, at the time, the [[Terry Nation]] script; he might have become the director who introduced the [[Dalek]]s. It is unclear, however, what preparatory work, if any, he did for that serial. By the time he left for holiday on 30 August he had begged off ''Doctor Who'' and been re-assigned to ''Madame Bovary'', a serial on which he would again be joined by Tristram Cary. ([[REF]]: ''[[The First Doctor Handbook]]'') | He was known to have worked out a production schedule for the first serial that would have allowed recording to begin about 19 July 1963. On 1 July, however, [[Donald Baverstock]]'s office informed the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' office that the series would not begin transmission until 9 November. This meant that the recording of ''The Tribe of Gum'', as it was still known, would largely happen whilst Tucker was on his scheduled vacation. For a brief time, he was assigned to the second story and then bumped to the fourth story, which was, at the time, the [[Terry Nation]] script; he might have become the director who introduced the [[Dalek]]s. It is unclear, however, what preparatory work, if any, he did for that serial. By the time he left for holiday on 30 August he had begged off ''Doctor Who'' and been re-assigned to ''Madame Bovary'', a serial on which he would again be joined by Tristram Cary. ([[REF]]: ''[[The First Doctor Handbook]]'') | ||
