100 years ago this April 1st, Sydney Newman was born. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was an ebullient Canadian émigré that worked as a television executive in Britain, first for independent network ABC as a producer, then for the BBC as Head of Drama.
And you honestly wouldn’t have got what we know as television in the 1960s in Britain, or indeed even British television today, without Sydney Newman.
The obvious reasons for this are The Avengers and Doctor Who. Newman created both. True to form for Newman, both were created to solve practical dilemmas he was facing at the time.
The Avengers came about, according to Newman’s upcoming memoir (finally being published by ECW Press this autumn) when Newman was looking for a vehicle for Ian Hendry, star of Police Surgeon – a series Newman felt didn’t quite take off
from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/feature-articles/17883-sydney-newman-man-who-made-who-feature
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