A young Verity Lambert began her career as TV producer when given the chance to produce the new children's television sci-fi series _"Doctor Who" was given guardian role over the series, but Verity's talents were soon recognised, and she was given full control. Verity Lambert now owns her own production company, "Cinema Verity", and is a well known and respected person in the UK television scene.
She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the order of the British Empire) in January 2002 in recognition of her services to film and television.
She was chosen by BBC Head of Drama Sydney Newman to be the first producer of the science-fiction series "Doctor Who" . She had previously worked with Newman, as a production secretary on Armchair Theatre at ABC.
She worked as a Production Secretary at ABC TV, Didsbury, Manchester, UK, around 1960, working with a young Canadian Director called Ted Kotcheff.
In the Doctor Who episode "Doctor Who" {The Family of Blood (#3.9)} , a character mentions that his parents were called Verity and Sydney. This is a tribute to Verity Lambert, the first producer of the original series "Doctor Who" , and Sydney Newman , the Head of Drama at the BBC who gave her this job.
She was due to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Women in Film and Television Awards in December 2007 but died a few weeks before the award could be presented to her. It was awarded posthumously on 7th December 2007.
After her stint as a producer at BBC TV (1963-1974), she held several executive roles at other companies, such as Controller, Drama Department, Thames TV (1974-1976), Director of Drama (1981-1982), director (1982-1985); Chief Executive, Euston Films (1979-1983); Director of Production, Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment (1982-1985); Director, Cinema Verity Productions (1985-2007).
She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to television culture.
It has a little bit of what it used to be, but is something for today,which is how it should be.
[on "Doctor Who" (2005) ] Nowadays they do do a few historical,ones which are rather nice and work very well. .
