Barry Letts
Production
1925-03-26
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.
Filmography
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
2023 · Movie
Tales of the Tardis
2023 · Series
Time and Atlantis: Chronicling The Time Monster
2023 · Movie
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019 · Movie
IMC Needs You!
2011 · Movie
The Doctor's Moriarty
2011 · Movie
Life on Earth
2011 · Movie
Come in Number Five
2011 · Movie
The Tin Men and the Witch
2010 · Movie
Warriors of Mars
2010 · Movie
Roger Delgado: The Master
2009 · Movie
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009 · Movie
The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
2009 · Movie
The Frighten Factor
2009 · Movie
Hello Sailor!
2008 · Movie
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
2008 · Movie
Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
2007 · Movie
Exodus
2007 · Movie
Are Friends Electric?
2007 · Movie
The Worst Journey in the World
2007 · Movie
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006 · Movie
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2006 · Movie
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
2005 · Movie
Dæmos Rising
2004 · Movie
The Story of Doctor Who
2003 · Movie
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998 · Movie
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993 · Movie
David Copperfield
1986 · Series
EastEnders
1985 · Series
The Prisoner of Zenda
1984 · Series
The Invisible Man
1984 · Series
Goodbye Mr Chips
1984 · Series
Jane Eyre
1983 · Series
Dombey and Son
1983 · Series
Beau Geste
1982 · Series
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1982 · Series
Stalky & Co
1982 · Series
Gulliver in Lilliput
1982 · Series
Great Expectations
1981 · Series
Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
1981 · Movie
Sense and Sensibility
1981 · Series
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate
1981 · Movie
Doctor Who: State of Decay
1980 · Movie
Doctor Who: Full Circle
1980 · Movie
Doctor Who: Meglos
1980 · Movie
A Tale of Two Cities
1980 · Series
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
1980 · Movie
The Swish of the Curtain
1980 · Series
The Old Curiosity Shop
1979 · Series
The Mill on the Floss
1978 · Series
Pinocchio
1978 · Series
Pinocchio
1978 · Movie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1978 · Series
The Children of the New Forest
1977 · Series
Treasure Island
1977 · Movie
Nicholas Nickleby
1977 · Series
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1976 · Series
The Prince and the Pauper
1976 · Series
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
1975 · Movie
Ten from the Twenties
1975 · Series
Doctor Who: Robot
1975 · Movie
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
1974 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
1974 · Movie
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
1974 · Movie
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1974 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
1974 · Movie
Moonbase 3
1973 · Series
Doctor Who: The Green Death
1973 · Movie
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973 · Movie
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
1973 · Movie
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
1973 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1972 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Mutants
1972 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
1972 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
1972 · Movie
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
1972 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
1971 · Movie
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
1971 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1971 · Movie
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
1971 · Movie
Doctor Who: Inferno
1970 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970 · Movie
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970 · Movie
Adventure Weekly
1968 · Series
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
1968 · Movie
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Series
Doctor Who
1963 · Series
City Beneath the Sea
1962 · Series
Dial M for Murder
1962 · Movie
Z-Cars
1962 · Series
The Avengers
1961 · Series
Maigret
1960 · Series
The Small House at Allington
1960 · Series
No Hiding Place
1959 · Series
The Silver Sword
1957 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Reach for the Sky
1956 · Movie
The Cruel Sea
1953 · Movie
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
1949 · Movie
Scott of the Antarctic
1948 · Movie
To the Public Danger
1948 · Movie
Frieda
1947 · Movie
San Demetrio London
1943 · Movie