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Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who, was born in London on 27 November 1935. She served as producer from An Unearthly Child to Mission to the Unknown. Her work on Doctor Who was the first time she had been a full producer and was one of the first times a woman had such a role in television. Lambert died on 22 November 2007, the very day before the forty-fourth anniversary of the show's debut.

The women who gave Doctor Who back to us

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Think Doctor Who is just for boys? Don't you believe it. Not only was the show's very first producer a woman, but it would never have come back without the fierce advocacy of Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner. Considering her importance to Doctor Who it's somewhat ironic that Tranter's only on-screen credits are for Torchwood: Miracle Day. But Gardner, her "partner in crime", is tied only with Russell T Davies as the most prolific producer in Doctor Who history.

Industrial action

Click for a video of a 21st century geek as he takes delivery of one of the two Paintboxes used by the BBC in the 1980s

The Quantel Paintbox was a graphics workstation that allowed Doctor Who to have a primitive form of colour grading in the 1980s. To find out more about the "business of show", go to category:production information, where you can read about colour separation overlay, low loaders, telerecordings, vidFIRE, rostrum cameras, 2" quad tape, Ealing Studios and tons more.

Surprising guest star

Click to see Georgia Moffett with her soon-to-be husband David Tennant... or is he her father?

The real-life daughter of Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison, Georgia Moffett appeared in the new series as Jenny — the Tenth Doctor's daughter — in, well, The Doctor's Daughter. After first meeting Tenth Doctor actor David Tennant while filming this very episode, she then proceeded to marry Tennant, making her father the Doctor and her husband... her father? Find out more about the thousands of actors who have been on Doctor Who by exploring Doctor Who guest actors.

Ex-Doctors never die, they just make audios

The careers of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors are significantly longer in audio than on television. Check out their latest works at category:2024 audio stories

The relevance of comics

Officially, only The Lodger has been explicitly adapted from a comic strip — also called The Lodger.

However, several stories have clearly taken material from comic strips — often those in Doctor Who Magazine. The Shakespeare Code contains a good amount of material from A Groatsworth of Wit, and the notion of the Doctor absorbing the time vortex in order to spare a companion was explored in both The Parting of the Ways and The Flood.

The first of the "money men"

Donald Baverstock was the BBC executive who set the the wheels in motion that eventually led to the creation of Doctor Who. Essentially the original commissioner of the programme, he hired Sydney Newman and later imposed a sense of financial responsibility upon producer Verity Lambert.

But Baverstock wasn't the only BBC executive to have a profound impact on the development of Doctor Who. Make sure you read about Lorraine Heggessey, Mark Thompson, Danny Cohen, George Entwistle, Tony Hall, Shaun Sutton, Sydney Newman and others.

Things released on 19 April

1965 - Part five of the TV Comic story On the Web Planet was first published.
1969 - Episode one of The War Games was first broadcast on BBC1.
1969 - Part three of the TV Comic story Eskimo Joe was first published.
1975 - Part one of Revenge of the Cybermen was first broadcast on BBC1.
1975 - Part four of the TV Comic story Return of the Daleks was first published.
2002 - Part one of "Death Comes to Time" was first released online.
2006 - DWA 2 was first released by BBC Magazines.
2007 - Sting of the Zygons, The Last Dodo and Wooden Heart were first published by BBC Books.
2008 - Planet of the Ood was first broadcast on BBC One. Later, Oods and Ends aired on BBC Three.
2012 - DWA 265 was first released by Immediate Media Company London Limited.
2012 - DWMSE 31 was first released by Panini Comics.
2017 - Alien Heart and Dalek Soul were first released by Big Finish Productions.
2017 - Part two of Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth was first published in 10DY3 4.
2018 - DWMSE 49 was first released by Panini Comics.
2018 - DWFC 122 was first released by Eaglemoss Collections.
2019 - TCH 19 was first released by Hachette Partworks.
2020 - Farewell, Sarah Jane was released on the Doctor Who website.
2021 - Series 8 was released in a Steelbook Blu-ray box set.

Did you know…

... that McCoy-era script editor, Andrew Cartmel, has written for the Torchwood franchise in the form of the prose story The Wrong Hands?

... that Elvis Presley signed a 1957 stratocaster that ended up in the hands of the Eighth Doctor? (PROSE: The Taint)

... that the Battle of Monte Cassino ended only about a month before the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrived in World War II Italy? (COMIC: Treasure Trail)

... that Martha Jones once thought the Tenth Doctor was taking her to the titular New York City location of the film Breakfast at Tiffany's — but instead he brought her to the Tiffany's on the planet Arkon? (PROSE: Wetworld)

... that Mirrorlings use mirrors to trap their victims in other dimensions? (COMIC: Mirror Image)

19 April births and deaths

1907 - Actor Alan Wheatley was born.^[1]
1912 - Actor Jack Cunningham was born.^[2]
1918 - Conductor Marcus Dods was born.^[3]
1945 - Actor John Abbott was born.^[4]
1945 - Actor Cleo Sylvestre was born.^[5]
1960 - Actor Mark Greenstreet was born.^[6]
1964 - Actor Marcus Harris was born.^[7]
1972 - Actor Pandora Colin was born.^[8]
1980 - Actor Tony Beckley died.^[9]
1983 - Actor Chris Gannon died.^[10]
1983 - Actor Victoria Yeates was born.^[11]
1989 - Actor Belinda Owusu was born.^[12]
1992 - Presenter and Actor Christel Dee was born.^[13]
2001 - Actor Demi Papaminas was born.^[14]
2004 - Actor Philip Locke died.^[15]
2011 - Actor Elisabeth Sladen died.^[16]
2016 - Actor Graeme Eton died.^[17]

Production history for 19 April

1968 - Episode three of The Wheel in Space was recorded at BBC Television Centre Studio 1. (TCH 12)
1968 - The Mind Robber was extended from four parts into five, with Derrick Sherwin commissioned to write a new opening episode for the story.^[18]
1971 - Location filming for The Dæmons took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor)
1980 - Studio filming for The Leisure Hive took place at BBC Television Centre studio 3. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor)
1989 - Location filming for The Curse of Fenric took place. (Doctor Who The Handbook: The Seventh Doctor)
2005 - The Big Finish audio story The Council of Nicaea took place at the Moat Studios.
2010 - Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Resurrecting the Past was recorded.
2010 - The BBC Press Office announced that Katy Manning would return to the role of Jo Grant for a fourth season storyline of The Sarah Jane Adventures, an episode also to feature Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor.^[19]
2018 - Big Finish's audio anthology Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume Two took place at the Moat Studios.
2020 - Doctor Who: Lockdown! hosted a tweetatlong of The Stolen Earth/Journey's End in commemoration of the ninth anniversary of Elisabeth Sladen's death.
2021 - The Big Finish audio story Watchers was recorded remotely.

[1] Find a Grave

[2] IMDb

[3] Doctor Who Guide

[4] Doctor Who Guide

[5] Celebrities Galore

[6] Doctor Who Guide

[7] People Pill

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[9] Doctor Who Guide

[10] Randall and Hopkirk (Declassified)

[11] People Pill

[12] Famous Birthdays

[13] Twitter

[14] Doctor Who Guide

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[16] Famous Birthdays

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[19] BBC Press Office - The Doctor and Jo to join CBBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures

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