Thread: RIP Verity Lambert OBE
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23rd Nov 2007, 11:54 AM #1
RIP Verity Lambert OBE
Confirmed by Tom Spilsbury on OG, I understand.
Sad irony that it should be announced on this date.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:22 PM #2Pip Madeley Guest
What awful news on the anniversary of the programme that would've got nowhere without such a wonderful lady. Verity was so talented and brave - the youngest drama producer at the time & the only female, and she paved the way so many other new, young, talented females in broadcasting media.
Rest in peace, Verity. I will be watching the first episode tonight in your honour.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:26 PM #3
Sorry to hear that news - I'd only become familiar with her in recent years with the DVD extras.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:30 PM #4
OH NO!
This is appalling. On today of all days.
Si.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:31 PM #5
Oh my goodness!
I really hadn't expected we'd hear this news for years. She's always been such a wonderful advocate of the show and one of the true legends of British TV. I am going to miss her wonderful inputs into the DVDs and her array of wigs.
As Iain said, it's ironic that it's today the news has broken, and that me and Steve have been watching the first story this week (and listened to some of her commentary only last night).
We'll miss you. Thank you for giving us the best show there's ever been.
RIP Verity
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:32 PM #6
What awful news, and today of all days.
Television would be a very different place today if it wasn't for Verity.
This makes it all the more tragic:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=14&cs=1
RIP.Last edited by Antony Cox; 23rd Nov 2007 at 12:40 PM.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:41 PM #7
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:48 PM #8WhiteCrow Guest
Yes sad news - her death seems more premature than it should have been.
But what a wonderful person she came accross as in interviews.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:52 PM #9
We're gradually losing the stars that made original Doctor Who. There's only really Carole Ann-Ford, William Russell and Waris Hussein left now. That magical original team is just vanishing into a time vortex...
Si.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:55 PM #10
I've just spent five minutes staring speechlessly at the monitor. How tragic that this should have happened today of all days. I can't think of a suitable eulogy, so I'll just say rest in peace, Verity, and thanks for everything.
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23rd Nov 2007, 12:56 PM #11
Oh no, that's awful news. She always seemed in excellent form and still looked fab in recent photos. Irrespective of the date, it's very upsetting She was so enthusiastic about everything.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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23rd Nov 2007, 1:01 PM #12
This is very sad news indeed. RIP verity, and thanks.
I’m being extremely clever up here and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?
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23rd Nov 2007, 1:05 PM #13
I'm not sure I can add much to the lovely comments already said, I'd already decided to watch An Unearthly Child later, I'll do the extras as well.
Very sad news, the Mother of Doctor Who has died.
Thank you for the best TV programme in my lifetime.
Rest in peace Verity.
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23rd Nov 2007, 1:46 PM #14
That's terrible! Its seems very sudden. I liked her. She always seemed to be up for talking about the show and was quite rightly very proud of it.
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23rd Nov 2007, 1:55 PM #15WhiteCrow Guest
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23rd Nov 2007, 2:18 PM #16Pip Madeley Guest
Now confirmed by the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7109538.stm
Doctor Who's first producer dies
Doctor Who's first producer, and the BBC's first female TV producer, Verity Lambert, has died aged 71. She was also the youngest person to take charge of a BBC television show when the sci-fi drama started in 1963.
Lambert also produced dramas including Minder, Quatermass, Rumpole of the Bailey and Jonathan Creek, while her company made 1990s BBC soap Eldorado. She was made an OBE in recognition of her services to film and television in January 2002.
Russell T Davies, the current writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, said: "There are a hundred people in Cardiff working on Doctor Who and millions of viewers, in particular many children, who love the programme that Verity helped create. This is her legacy and we will never forget that," he added.
Jane Tranter, controller of BBC Fiction said: "Verity was a total one-off. She was a magnificently, madly, inspirationally talented drama producer."
Lambert had been due to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Women in Film and Television Awards next month.
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23rd Nov 2007, 2:25 PM #17
About time, I sent them an e-mail about the lack of news about 40 minutes ago.
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23rd Nov 2007, 2:32 PM #18
This is very sad news, we have had many deaths from people with links to Doctor Who over the years but this is the first time that I have reacted with true genuin sadness with out Verity, we would not have a show called Doctor Who.
She was a wonderfull woman and I would hope that DWM, devotes it's next issue as a tribute to her
and a wonderfull thing for RTD to do would be to dedicate this years christmas special to her memory.
R I P.
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23rd Nov 2007, 2:39 PM #19WhiteCrow Guest
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23rd Nov 2007, 3:47 PM #20
It's the biggest loss since Jon Pertwee really.
Si.
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23rd Nov 2007, 3:56 PM #21
Or since JNT perhaps.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Nov 2007, 4:03 PM #22WhiteCrow Guest
He's one of those people I keep thinking is still alive, and get all surprised to find out he's not.
We've all grown up watching Doctor Who, and every time someone like this dies it feels like we've lost a friend and a character, and it can feel like a bit of our childhood gets lost along the way.
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23rd Nov 2007, 4:24 PM #23
I am truly shocked, stunned, saddened by this news, on this day of all days.
We all realise how much we owe to Verity Lambert, the production of those early episodes, her persistance, in producing the Daleks, the "bug eyed monsters" as Sydney Newman called them, and her arguments for their introduction in the series. In later years she formed her own production company and produced many classic series and plays for both ITV and BBC, too many to mention here but they include Budgie, The Naked Civil Servant and Jonathan Creek.
Let's hope that she gets a posthumous award at the Women in TV and Films next month, she deserves to be remembered in this way.
I had already planned to watch An Unearthly Child later, this has made me more determined to do so.
RIP Verity Lambert, you will be sadly missed.
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23rd Nov 2007, 4:37 PM #24
Very sad news. I'm stunned!
RIP Verity
Full BBC Press Release
Originally Posted by BBC Press Office
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23rd Nov 2007, 4:50 PM #25WhiteCrow Guest
I think maybe we should have her on the banner to commemorate her life.
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