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Barry Letts
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Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of Doctor Who from 1969 to 1974. 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.
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Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster
Doctor Who and the Third Man
IMC Needs You!
The Doctor's Moriarty
Life on Earth
Come in Number Five
The Tin Men and the Witch
Warriors of Mars
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
Roger Delgado: The Master
The Frighten Factor
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
Hello Sailor!
Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
Exodus
Are Friends Electric?
The Worst Journey in the World
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
The Story of Doctor Who
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
30 Years in the TARDIS- DIDial M for Murder
Reach for the Sky
The Cruel Sea
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Scott of the Antarctic
To the Public Danger
Frieda
San Demetrio London
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Dæmos Rising
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Doctor Who: Meglos
Treasure Island
Doctor Who: Robot
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Doctor Who: The Mutants
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Doctor Who: Inferno
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Doctor Who and the Silurians