Thank you, Verity. Thank you so very much.
Thank you for making history…as the first female producer of drama at the BBC…and its youngest ever.
Thank you for accepting the assignment of producing what could have been a disposable little sci-fi program on Saturday evenings.
Thank you for assembling an amazing cast, including the indomitable figure of William Hartnell.
Thank you for taking meager resources and spinning that straw into tele-visual gold.
Thank you for hiring an amazing set of writers and directors to help bring your vision of this little sci-fi program to life…
…and above all else, thank you for two years of your life…two years in which you were at the helm of one of the greatest works of television ever conceived.
Verity Lambert, OBE – producer of innumerable television shows, pioneer for women in the television industry…and, as its very first producer, the mother of Doctor Who. Her death was announced today, on Doctor Who’s 44th birthday. Sad…ironic…and yet…entirely appropriate.
Rest in peace…and thank you from the bottom of my heart. If it wasn’t for you, my childhood (and that of millions of others) would have been MUCH different.
Further obits for Verity can be found at BBC News and the Doctor Who site…
