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Before joining the BBC early in the 1950s to work on live drama at Alexandra Palace, he spent over four years in "weekly rep" as director/theatre manager at the Royalty Theatre, Morecambe. Pinfield was the inventor of an early type of teleprompter, or autocue, which he called the Piniprompter. Out of all the people who worked on Doctor Who, his death was one of the earliest to occur over the long history of its production, less than three years after it had first debuted.

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  • Before joining the BBC early in the 1950s to work on live drama at Alexandra Palace, he spent over four years in "weekly rep" as director/theatre manager at the Royalty Theatre, Morecambe. Pinfield was the inventor of an early type of teleprompter, or autocue, which he called the Piniprompter. Out of all the people who worked on Doctor Who, his death was one of the earliest to occur over the long history of its production, less than three years after it had first debuted.
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  • Before joining the BBC early in the 1950s to work on live drama at Alexandra Palace, he spent over four years in "weekly rep" as director/theatre manager at the Royalty Theatre, Morecambe. Pinfield was the inventor of an early type of teleprompter, or autocue, which he called the Piniprompter. Out of all the people who worked on Doctor Who, his death was one of the earliest to occur over the long history of its production, less than three years after it had first debuted.
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