#barry letts

1970 they went "we're going to make Doctor Who a more grounded adult action series" and then they got a hippie with a fetish for psychedelic chromakey to produce it.

1980 they said "we're returning Doctor Who to Real Hard Science" and our new head writer is The Computers Mystic.

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Barry Letts (March 26, 1925 - October 9, 2009)

First up is a swashbuckling Barry Letts

This one is actually feasible in a world where Doctor Who started earlier, as Letts was an actor in the 40s and 50s.

Next is old Uncle Terrance Dicks, captain of his ship

And finally, at my suggestion, Terry Nation

I always thought he had a Doctorish look to him.

I think in my headcanon it now runs:

Jo Martin

Verity Lambert

Waris Hussein

Barry Letts

Terrance Dicks

Terry Nation

Christopher Barry

and all the rest.

"When I was a child, being a huge Doctor Who fan, I wrote numerous letters to the Doctor Who office largely inquiring about how the show was made.

"When it arrived the surprise package also [in addition to two full Jon Pertwee scripts] contained set designs and studio floor plans for these episodes and a delightful letter from producer Barry Letts giving me an idea what all this stuff was.

"It was a fantastic insight into both Doctor Who and TV production generally. I had never seen a script in any form whatsoever before then and was immediately fascinated by the documents."

The actor, who won a short film Oscar in 1993, was inspired to pursue a career on stage and screen by the BBC package.

He said: “That was a trigger to my ambition to work somehow  – I didn’t know how - in TV. The scripts are still sitting on my bookshelf.”