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    Sydney Cecil Newman OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television...
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  • Doctor Who (category Television series created by Sydney Newman)
    television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial...
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  • professor Sue Newman, Australian squash player Sydney Newman (1917–1997), Canadian-British film and television producer Terence Newman (born 1978), American...
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  • Thames Television took over from mid-1968. The Canadian-born producer Sydney Newman was in charge of Armchair Theatre between September 1958 and December...
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  • behind-the-scene events with the production staff, including the involvement of Sydney Newman, Verity Lambert and Waris Hussein. The television film received positive...
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    Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He...
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  • The Avengers (TV series) (category Television series created by Sydney Newman)
    and a Lotus Europa. Lady Diana Forbes Blakeney drove an MGC Roadster. Sydney Newman, who would later go on to spearhead the creation of Doctor Who for the...
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    co-creator Sydney Newman in a 1986 exchange with then-BBC One controller Michael Grade after the dismissal of Sixth Doctor actor Colin Baker; Newman envisaged...
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  • present. The character of the Doctor was created by BBC Head of Drama, Sydney Newman. The first format document for the programme that was to become Doctor...
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  • gap between children's and young adult programming. Canadian producer Sydney Newman, recently made Head of Drama at the BBC, was tasked with creating the...
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  • Noble", "Aurelian Winton", "Magnus Hawke" and even "Darius Crud" before Sydney Newman settled on Adam Adamant, named after the generic mineral term adamantine...
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    Aliesha Newman (born 16 September 1995) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Greater Western Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. She...
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    Magic Narrator 2010 On Expenses Michael Martin MP 2011 The Sinking of the Laconia Captain Rudolph Sharp 2013 An Adventure in Space and Time Sydney Newman...
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  • Polo's adventures—was suggested to producers by Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman when the show was early in development. Throughout production, the script...
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  • September 1964. The show was created by BBC Television head of drama Sydney Newman to fill the Saturday evening timeslot and appeal to both the younger...
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  • Lambert were impressed, despite disapproval from the show's creator Sydney Newman, who wanted to avoid serials with "bug-eyed monsters". Barry directed...
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  • major factor in the supervising producer of CBC's television dramas, Sydney Newman, being brought across to work in the UK. There he made a significant...
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  • Head of Drama in 1961, being replaced the following year by his friend Sydney Newman, who oversaw major changes in the department. After a brief and unsuccessful...
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  • which were then overseen by the new Head of Drama, Canadian producer Sydney Newman. Catastrophic incidents could occur on live television of this era....
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    science-fiction series Doctor Who. Cox portrayed Canadian television executive Sydney Newman, the driving force behind the creation of the iconic programme. He appeared...
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  • 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...
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  • Winter King Kate Brooke Ed Whitmore Sony Pictures Television Doctor Who Sydney Newman C.E. Webber Donald Wilson BBC Studios (United Kingdom and Ireland) Disney+...
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  • script editor Tony Williamson and the BBC's Head of Television Drama, Sydney Newman. The series was produced by Verity Lambert. The female lead was originally...
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    Australian cast of The Book of Mormon. Newman has performed extensively with leading theatre companies in Melbourne and Sydney. Her theatre credits include Miss...
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  • stylistic opportunities. The producer Leonard White and series creator Sydney Newman both congratulated him on giving the early episodes their distinctive...
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    dealt with breaches in the fabric of time. In 1986, television producer Sydney Newman suggested Lumley for the role of the Doctor but his idea was dismissed...
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  • credit. For example, Sydney Newman, the accepted creator of The Avengers (1961–69), was never given an explicit credit as creator; Newman never thought to...
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  • Dead Space universe by Glen Schofieled The Whoniverse co-created with Sydney Newman, Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield, Anthony Coburn and C.E. Webber, among...
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  • co-wrote the first format document for the series with Donald Wilson and Sydney Newman. Webber and his scripts were ultimately not used as he was felt to not...
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  • Police Surgeon (British TV series) (category Television series created by Sydney Newman)
    Operation Mangle The Bigger They Are The series was created for ABC by Sydney Newman. Most episodes were made at ABC's Didsbury Studios in Manchester, but...
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