Verity Lambert dies.

November 23, 2007 12:40 PM

Verity Lambert dies. Verity was amongst other things the first producer of Doctor Who and essentially co-created the series along with writer Sydney Newman and the pilot director Waris Hussein. She would later have a hand in bringing everything from Minder to Jonathan Creek to the screen.

Worth noting how rare it was in the sixties to have a female producer at the BBC and although Sydney was dead against having bug eyed monsters in the series, she convinced him that this idea that Terry Nation was having about something called Daleks would be a really good thing to do.

posted by feelinglistless (26 comments total)

The wikipedia article is pretty good too.
posted by feelinglistless at 12:42 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by ceri richard at 12:50 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by wfrgms at 1:02 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by sebastienbailard at 1:16 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by Smart Dalek at 1:19 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by sarcasticah at 1:23 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 1:24 PM on November 23, 2007

.....ooooOOOOOEEEEE-OOOOOOOO, woooo-eeee-oooo, dumdedum, dumdedum, dadadum, dumdedum...
posted by Artw at 1:35 PM on November 23, 2007 [2 favorites]

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posted by o0o0o at 1:43 PM on November 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

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posted by Busithoth at 1:48 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by jdfalk at 3:09 PM on November 23, 2007

I'm going to mourn behind the sofa.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:23 PM on November 23, 2007 [5 favorites]

Thanks for the really nice obit, fl.

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posted by jessamyn at 3:42 PM on November 23, 2007

I liked that in the recent Human Nature episode of Doctor Who, in which the Doctor gave himself false memories of a human life, his parents were Verity and Sydney.

A solid . for this one.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 4:26 PM on November 23, 2007

She would later have a hand in bringing everything from Minder to Jonathan Creek to the screen.

Bitch.
posted by essexjan at 4:44 PM on November 23, 2007

Sorry.

I meant


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posted by essexjan at 4:45 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by Lokheed at 6:11 PM on November 23, 2007

There was a lovely moment in the last series, in the episode 'Human Nature', where the Doctor - temporarily human - talked about his parents, named Sydney and Verity. A touching little tribute from the current crew to the originators.

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posted by flashboy at 9:47 PM on November 23, 2007

(Which I completely missed JKF mentioning just a few comments up. Doh. Need sleep.)
posted by flashboy at 9:54 PM on November 23, 2007

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posted by itsjustanalias at 3:52 AM on November 24, 2007

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The first female producer at the BBC--and it was still the early 60s then--you go, Verity! (and Verity is such a great name, no?) : >
posted by amberglow at 8:19 AM on November 24, 2007

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posted by NucleophilicAttack at 10:53 AM on November 24, 2007

I love the name of her production company: Cinema Verity.


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posted by crossoverman at 9:30 PM on November 24, 2007

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posted by davros42 at 4:56 PM on November 27, 2007