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'''Joanna Spicer''' was the Assistant Controller of Television Planning for the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] for several years in at least the 1960s. She was always "in the loop" in the discussions surrounding the creation of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Indeed, she was in the room wither her boss [[Donald Baverstock]] and her lateral colleague [[Sydney Newman]] when the first discussions about how to fill [[Saturday]] evening television occurred in [[March (production)|March]] 1963. With Baverstock, she smiled on Newman's initial plans to create a science fiction programme for Saturday afternoons. | | image = JoannaSpicer.jpg | ||
| birth date = [[29 April (people)|29 April]] [[1906 (people)|1906]] | |||
| death date = [[17 March (people)|17 March]] [[1992 (people)|1992]] | |||
| job title = Assistant Controller of Television Planning | |||
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'''Joanna Spicer, CBE''' ([[29 April (people)|29 April]] [[1906 (people)|1906]]-[[17 March (people)|17 March]] [[1992 (people)|1992]]<ref>[https://peoplepill.com/people/joanna-spicer People Pill]</ref>) was the Assistant Controller of Television Planning for the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] for several years in at least the 1960s. She was always "in the loop" in the discussions surrounding the creation of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Indeed, she was in the room wither her boss [[Donald Baverstock]] and her lateral colleague [[Sydney Newman]] when the first discussions about how to fill [[Saturday]] evening television occurred in [[March (production)|March]] 1963. With Baverstock, she smiled on Newman's initial plans to create a science fiction programme for Saturday afternoons. | |||
As the project took shape over the months that followed, however, she raised a number of objections. She was particularly opposed to Newman's plan to reorganise production at the BBC Drama Group generally, such that ''Doctor Who'' be produced by the Serials department, rather than the Children's department. Indeed, after Newman returned to the BBC following a vacation in [[June (production)|June]] 1963, tensions between them rose considerably. He discovered that she had been rubbishing the Serials Department's conduct of pre-production on ''Doctor Who''. They had a blow-up on the phone on [[27 June (production)|27 June]] leading to him writing a memo called "[[Dr. Who Hassle]]", in which he tried to explain why he has restructured production responsibilities in the Drama Group. It was nevertheless an angry memo which began by stating he was "absolutely flabbergasted" by their earlier phone call and ended with a flat declaration that he didn't need any sort of permission by her office to continue. | As the project took shape over the months that followed, however, she raised a number of objections. She was particularly opposed to Newman's plan to reorganise production at the BBC Drama Group generally, such that ''Doctor Who'' be produced by the Serials department, rather than the Children's department. Indeed, after Newman returned to the BBC following a vacation in [[June (production)|June]] 1963, tensions between them rose considerably. He discovered that she had been rubbishing the Serials Department's conduct of pre-production on ''Doctor Who''. They had a blow-up on the phone on [[27 June (production)|27 June]] leading to him writing a memo called "[[Dr. Who Hassle]]", in which he tried to explain why he has restructured production responsibilities in the Drama Group. It was nevertheless an angry memo which began by stating he was "absolutely flabbergasted" by their earlier phone call and ended with a flat declaration that he didn't need any sort of permission by her office to continue. | ||
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She was also a key player in the fight over which studios would be used to produce ''Doctor Who''. She was largely the reason the show ended up in [[Lime Grove Studio D]] — a studio that the production team universally thought was unsuitable to the task. On this point she was challenged by Mair, who argued that they should acquiesce to the production team's desire for allocation of studio space at [[BBC Television Centre]], largely because it would avoid union problems. ([[REF]]: ''[[The First Doctor Handbook]]'') | She was also a key player in the fight over which studios would be used to produce ''Doctor Who''. She was largely the reason the show ended up in [[Lime Grove Studio D]] — a studio that the production team universally thought was unsuitable to the task. On this point she was challenged by Mair, who argued that they should acquiesce to the production team's desire for allocation of studio space at [[BBC Television Centre]], largely because it would avoid union problems. ([[REF]]: ''[[The First Doctor Handbook]]'') | ||
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