Barry Letts

Known for ProductionBorn 1925-03-26Died 2009-10-09

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Small House at Allington

The Swish of the Curtain

The Children of the New Forest

Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

Goodbye Mr Chips

Doctor Who: Inferno

Doctor Who: The Green Death

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

The Story of Doctor Who

30 Years in the TARDIS

Pinocchio

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

The Invisible Man

The Avengers

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken

Doctor Who: State of Decay

The Old Curiosity Shop

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

The Frighten Factor

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Jane Eyre

Doctor Who: The Mutants

Z-Cars

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

Gulliver in Lilliput

Stalky & Co

Beau Geste

Doctor Who: Logopolis

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

A Tale of Two Cities

Nicholas Nickleby

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

Maigret

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

Moonbase 3

Scott of the Antarctic