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Barry Letts

English producer (1925–2009)

Barry Letts
Born	Barry Leopold Letts (1925-03-26)26 March 1925 Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Died	9 October 2009(2009-10-09) (aged 84)
Occupation(s)	Actor, director, producer, writer
Years active	1946–2009
Spouse	Muriel Letts ​ ​ (m. 1951; died 2009)​
Children	3

Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009)^[1] was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of Doctor Who from 1969 to 1974.^[2]

Born in Leicester, he worked as an actor in theatre, films and television before retiring in his early forties and becoming a television director. He then became the producer of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who for five years, overseeing almost the entirety of Jon Pertwee's tenure as the Third Doctor and casting Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. He produced or directed many of the BBC's Sunday Classic drama serials from 1976 to 1986, and returned to Doctor Who in 1980 to be the executive producer for its eighteenth season.

The Guardian described Letts on his death as "a pioneer of British television" who "served the medium for more than half

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Barry Letts

Barry Letts started his career as an actor. He began in repertory in York whilst also working for a local radio station in Leeds. After a chance meeting with BBC producer/director Rex Tucker, Letts started working with him first on radio and then on television. His first television appearance was with Patrick Troughton in a 1950 production of Gunpowder Guy, about Guy Fawkes. Eventually Letts decided he wanted to go into directing and attended the BBC director's course in 1967. He worked on episodes of Z Cars and The Newcomers before directing the six-part Doctor Who story 'The Enemy of the World' in 1967. Following this he became producer of Doctor Who in 1969. After he left Doctor Who in 1974, he found himself marking time by working as a sort of assistant to Head of Drama, Ronnie Marsh, until he decided to return to directing and approached various producers for work. It was because of this that he came to direct 'The Android Invasion' for Doctor Who in 1975. Straight after that came a production of The Prince and the Pauper for John McCrae. However, McCrae was promoted to Head of Drama for a New Zealand TV station and so Letts was asked to take over as producer of the classic serials on BBC1. In the late Seventies and early Eighties Letts