Verity Lambert - Doctor Who's First Producer Dies

 It is with great sadness that it has been announced that Doctor Who's first producer, and the BBC's first female television producer, Verity Lambert, has died aged 71.

She was also the youngest person to take charge of a BBC television show when Doctor Who started in 1963. She oversaw the first two series before leaving in 1965. She went on to produce dramas including The Newcomers, Adam Adamant Lives!, Minder, Quatermass, Rumpole of the Bailey and Jonathan Creek, while her company made the 1990s BBC soap Eldorado.

She was made an OBE in recognition of her services to film and television in January 2002.

Russell T Davies, the current writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, is quoted as saying: "There are a hundred people in Cardiff working on Doctor Who and millions of viewers, in particular many children, who love the programme that Verity helped create. This is her legacy and we will never forget that."

Her death on Thursday 22nd Novemnber 2007 came the day before the 44th anniversary of the very first episode of the show she helped to bring to our television screens that we all enjoy to this day.

Verity Lambert 1935 - 2007