Talk:C. E. Webber

Oh, Rabbits
No mention of his nickname, Bunny, which was widely used.



165.225.76.164talk to me 12:53, April 30, 2018 (UTC)


 * Added it to the "aka" in his infobox, though an actual mention in the article would probably also be appropriate here. – N8 ☎ 13:38, April 30, 2018 (UTC)

Webber's role
This piece will need a good going over as it's full of "correctly" and "incorrectly".

Webber definitely was one of the series's co-creators - Gary Gillatt's Doctor Who: From A to Z (annoyingly my copy is not to hand) devotes the first chapter to studying Webber's right up of the initial plans for the show from a meeting between him, Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson and concludes that Webber more than anyone else (even Newman and Wilson) deserves to be recognised as the series's creator. On the BBC file card for the very episode he is co-credited as writer alongside Anthony Coburn though not on screen - this co-writing is presumably because Coburn was building on the work Webber had done both for the series as a whole and The Giants, which was originally intended as the first story (and may also be a copyright assertion by the BBC that the show had originated with staffers).

Webber was largely forgotten because his name never appeared on any episodes, he died long before fandom got going and started exploring the origins of the series and (probably) because of the tendency in many fields to look for a single core creator rather than equal collaborators, with Newman's profile and role meaning he was the figure more often turned to. In 1994 a Doctor Who Magazine article about The Giants commented on how Webber's name meant nothing to most fans before proceeding to look at the story. Thanks to a number of discoveries in the BBC written archives the 1990s Who historians were soon able to rediscover him. Timrollpickering ☎  17:48, April 24, 2020 (UTC)