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Verity Ann Lambert OBE (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who from 1963 until 1965.
Verity Lambert (1935-2007) was the first producer of the original BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (1963) and a respected figure in the UK television industry. She also created and produced Shoulder to Shoulder (1974), a TV mini series about the suffragette movement, and owned her own production company, Cinema Verity.
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Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who, was born in London on 27 November 1935[1]. She served as producer from An Unearthly Child to Mission to the Unknown. Her work on Doctor Who was the first time that she had been a full producer and was one of the first times a woman had such a...
Verity Lambert was Doctor Who’s first producer. At the time of her involvement with the show, she was the youngest and only female drama producer at the BBC, but she was determined to see...
Nov 23, 2007 · Verity Lambert, who joined the BBC in 1963 as its youngest producer and its first female TV producer, has died aged 71. She also produced dramas such as Minder, Quatermass and Eldorado, and received an OBE in 2002.
Nov 26, 2007 · In a medium whose early history had been dominated by men, Verity Lambert was one of those who blazed a trail for women in television. When she produced the first episode of Doctor Who, in 1963,...
May 30, 2022 · Some major names in the history of British television gathered on Sunday 29th May to honour the pioneering producer Verity Lambert, as Doctor Who ’s very first director Waris Hussein and former...
