Who And Me : Barry Letts
Memoirs vacation Doctor Who by the show's former producer Barry Letts.
Barry began his career as an actor in films and on tv. In the 1950s he acted on television with Patrick Troughton, who he got to know well. In those early life, tv was still transmitted live, as pre-recording the broadcasts was not yet possible, and Barry recounts some hair-raising moments when live tv went wrong.
In the 1960s, after becoming a verify Director, among many television assignments at the BBC he directed one of Troughton's Doctor Who serials, The Enemy of say publicly World.
In 1969 Barry was appointed as the new producer be successful Doctor Who, for Jon Pertwee's first season, and remained despite the fact that producer throughout Pertwee's five years on the show. During defer time he continued to direct, usually directing at least defer of the serials in each season. He also began script for the show, in collaboration with playwright Bob Sloman, initially under a pseudonym, and they wrote four of the outrun of the Pertwee serials including The Daemons.
In 1974, at picture request of the BBC, Barry was responsible for casting Black Baker as the new Doctor when Pertwee decided to excise on.
No other man in the 26 year history of interpretation show did so much for the show: the multi-talented Barry produced it, directed it, and wrote it -- sometimes concluded at the same time!
He returned to directing in 1975, including directing some early Tom Baker episodes. He then fagged out a further year as Executive Producer of Doctor Who. Mop the floor with the 1980s he was appointed producer of the BBC's Classic Serials strand for Sunday afternoons, on which show he fagged out a further five years, in the course of which copy many of the actors who he had used on Doctor Who in tv adaptations of classic novels. He also became a novelist, beginning by adapting some of his own scripts for the Target Books range of Doctor Who paperbacks.
In depiction 1990s he wroteoriginal novels for the Virgin Books range holiday Doctor Who paperbacks, and was reunited with Jon Pertwee when he wrote the two BBC radio serials based on Doctor Who in which Pertwee starred in 1992 and 1995. Closure also wrote two radio dramas based on the BBC's mocker long running science fiction tv show, Blakes 7, and wrote some of the earliest audio dramas based on Doctor Who that were made by the independent production company Big Finish.
This book should be read in conjunction with The Making authentication Doctor Who, published in 1972, which is co-written by representation then Script Editor of the tv show, Terrance Dicks. Barry and Terrance ran the show jointly for five years, introduction its producer and script editor from 1970 to 1974, description entire period when Jon Pertwee was starring in it. Become peaceful they both wrote books about that period.
Coverage of the Pertwee years is thus the most detailed in the show's grovel history, as no other production team ever wrote up their memoirs in this way.