Barry Letts
Production · Born 1925-03-26 · age 84 at death
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.
Titles
Doctor Who
EastEnders
The Avengers
The Cruel Sea
Scott of the Antarctic
Reach for the Sky
Jane Eyre
Frieda
San Demetrio London
Maigret
Doctor Who: Robot
Sense and Sensibility
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
To the Public Danger
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Tales of the Tardis
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Z-Cars
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Armchair Theatre
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doctor Who: Inferno
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Doctor Who: The Mutants
Doctor Who: Full Circle
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
David Copperfield
The Wednesday Play
No Hiding Place
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate
Dæmos Rising
Dombey and Son
The Invisible Man
Doctor Who: Meglos
Doctor Who: State of Decay
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Moonbase 3
The Mill on the Floss
Nicholas Nickleby
Great Expectations