Donald Wilson
Author and Producer
Nov. 23, 1963: <cite>Doctor Who</cite> Materializes on BBC...Canadian Sydney Newman, BBC's head of drama, the day-to-day creation of the show's first season fell to script department head Donald Wilson, BBC staff writers C. E. Webber and Anthony Coburn, story editor David Whitaker, and producer Verity... In this article: Doctor Who, Tardis, BBC, William Hartnell, William Russell, Ian Chesterton, Doctor, Verity Lambert, and Jacqueline Hill |
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Doctor Who
...format document for the series being written by Newman along with the Head of the Script Department (later Head of Serials) Donald Wilson and staff writer C. E. Webber. Writer Anthony Coburn, story editor David Whitaker and initial producer...
In this article: Doctor Who, Doctor, Dalek, BBC One, Russell T Davies, Jon Pertwee, David Tennant, Time Lord, Tardis, and Peter Davison
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BBC television drama
...writers, Nigel Kneale and Philip Mackie. Barry later expanded the Script Department and installed the experienced film producer Donald Wilson as its head in 1955. Television was now developing beyond simply adapting stories from other media...
In this article: In-house, Jonathan Powell, BBC, BBC Two, BBC One, London, and Val Gielgud
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History of Doctor Who
...first episode of Doctor Who. In March 1962, Eric Maschwitz, the Head of Light Entertainment at BBC Television, asked Donald Wilson , the Head of the Script Department, to have his department's Survey Group prepare a study on the feasibility...
In this article: Doctor Who, Doctor, John Nathan-Turner, BBC One, BBC Television, William Hartnell, Tom Baker, Derrick Sherwin, and Graham Williams
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The Forsyte Saga (1967 series)
...Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1...
In this article: The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy, BBC Television, DVD, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Kingdom, BBC Two, Nobel prize for literature, and Jacob's Award
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Donald Wilson (writer and producer)
Donald Wilson (1 September 1910, Dunblane, Scotland - 6 March 2002, Gloucestershire, England) was a British television writer and producer, best known for his work on the BBC's adaptation of ''The Forsyte Saga '' in 1967. His initial...
In this article: Sydney Newman, Verity Lambert, BBC Television, Daleks, BBC Two, BBC One, and The First Churchills
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Sydney Newman
...drama department, with 175 staff under his control, into three separate divisions - series, serials and plays, headed by Elwyn Jones , Donald Wilson and Michael Bakewell, respectively, each reporting directly to Newman. In 1964 he initiated...
In this article: Sydney Cecil Newman, John Grierson, Shaun Sutton, Ted Kotcheff, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and ITV
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The First Churchills
...Duchess of Marlborough. It starred John Neville as the duke and Susan Hampshire as the duchess, was written and produced by Donald Wilson , and was directed by David Giles. The miniseries presents the lives of John and Sarah...
In this article: The First Churchills, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, John Neville, DVD, Abdelazer, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Henry Purcell, and Aphra Behn
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Donald Wilson (September 1 1910, Dunblane, Scotland – March 6 2002, Gloucestershire, England) was a British television writer and producer, best known for his work on the BBC's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga in 1967.
His initial career was in the film industry, working for MGM at Elstree Studios, where he was Assistant Director of such films as Jericho (1937) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). During the war he worked on documentary films, and then in 1955 was recruited to BBC Television by the then Head of Drama, Michael Barry. As the Head of the Script Department, Wilson was ultimately responsible for overseeing the commissioning and development of all the original scripts and adaptations transmitted by BBC Television.
When the Script Department was rendered redundant by Sydney Newman’s radical shake-up of the BBC Drama Department after his arrival as its head in 1962, the highly respected Wilson was given one of the most senior positions under Newman as Head of Serials. In this position, Wilson was responsible for overseeing the creation and development of a series that Newman himself had originally conceived; an educational science-fiction adventure serial for children entitled Doctor Who. It was Wilson, together with Newman and staff writer C. E. Webber, who co-wrote the first format document for the programme.
Wilson was responsible for much of the early development work on the show, although he did strongly attempt to dissuade producer Verity Lambert from using writer Terry Nation’s script featuring a race of aliens named Daleks. However, once the script had been made and transmitted to great success, he called Lambert into his office to admit that she clearly knew the show better than he did and told her that he would no longer interfere with her decisions.
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