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| - John Nathan-Turner (12. August 1947 - 01. Mai 2002) war ein britischer TV-Produzent. Nach einiger Zeit sporadischer Mitarbeit im Produktionteam der Serie Doctor Who, wurde er für die 18. Staffel zum Produzenten der Serie und löste damit Graham Williams ab. Turner blieb für 9 Staffeln Produzent der Serie und damit der am längsten in dieser Position tätige Mitarbeiter der Serie.
- Many of JN-T's later traits as producer can be seen in his very earliest contact with the dramatic arts. As a teenager, he was interested in advertising. On a trip to a publicity firm, he realised that he was really more attracted to the show business side of producing commercials than to the gritty reality of advertising office spaces. He became a stage manager at a cabaret in Birmingham, where he dealt with a number of 1960s British celebrities like Shirley Bassey. He also worked as a property master on a pantomime in town, which cemented his career ambitions. In the mid-1960s, he met a young Graham Williams, whose girlfriend — a clerk to the Head of Costumes — could get him a job in television. His first contract with the BBC was a one-month gig as a male costume assistant. Though his t
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| - Many of JN-T's later traits as producer can be seen in his very earliest contact with the dramatic arts. As a teenager, he was interested in advertising. On a trip to a publicity firm, he realised that he was really more attracted to the show business side of producing commercials than to the gritty reality of advertising office spaces. He became a stage manager at a cabaret in Birmingham, where he dealt with a number of 1960s British celebrities like Shirley Bassey. He also worked as a property master on a pantomime in town, which cemented his career ambitions. In the mid-1960s, he met a young Graham Williams, whose girlfriend — a clerk to the Head of Costumes — could get him a job in television. His first contract with the BBC was a one-month gig as a male costume assistant. Though his time in this role was brief, he met several people who would become important to his later career. Most notably, he met Bill Sellars, the future producer of All Creatures Great and Small. Following this initial foray into television, he returned to the theatre for three years, where he was a stage manager and occasional bit player. This prepared him for his next assault on television. He joined the BBC as a floor assistant in 1968, and he first worked on Doctor Who in that capacity on The Space Pirates — recorded in Studio D of the Lime Grove Studios. Like Verity Lambert, he disdained those early Doctor Who facilities: "... [Studio D] was murder, as the studio was on the fourth floor and all the dressing rooms were in the basement and the ground floor. I spent a lot of time running up and down stairs." He continued to work on the show sporadically during the Jon Pertwee era — by which time Doctor Who had left Lime Grove behind. During the early 1970s, Nathan-Turner was rotated around several different projects, and so only worked on specific Doctor Who serials, rather than whole seasons. In particular, he was a part of the crew on The Ambassadors of Death and Colony in Space. In the first half of the decade, he was less associated with Doctor Who than with period dramas such as the Emmy-winning The Pallisers, and Nicholas Nickleby. He regarded the producer of those shows, Martin Lisemore, as a mentor. His breakthrough into genuine production came almost simultaneously from two directions at once. In 1977, he was engaged as production unit manager for Season 1 of All Creatures Great and Small and Season 15 of Doctor Who. Famously, his stint on All Creatures introduced him to Peter Davison, the future Fifth Doctor. But it also gave his dog, "Pepsi", the recurring role as "Pepper" — one of Sigfried Farnon's ubiquitous pets. He continued as both shows' production manager for two years. In November 1979, he was asked to take over from Graham Williams as producer of Doctor Who. Finally forced to choose between the two, he left All Creatures in the middle of its third season.
- John Nathan-Turner (12. August 1947 - 01. Mai 2002) war ein britischer TV-Produzent. Nach einiger Zeit sporadischer Mitarbeit im Produktionteam der Serie Doctor Who, wurde er für die 18. Staffel zum Produzenten der Serie und löste damit Graham Williams ab. Turner blieb für 9 Staffeln Produzent der Serie und damit der am längsten in dieser Position tätige Mitarbeiter der Serie.
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