Who And Me.

Who And Me.

Last updated: 7/2008

Memoirs Of Dr Who Producer, Barry Letts.
Who and MeDo you want to find out everything you can about Dr Who in the classic days? What Jon Pertwee was really like?

How Katy Manning and Lis Sladen were chosen to star alongside Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker?

How Patrick Troughton was one of the first British TV stars?

How Roger Delgado became the Master the moment the character was born?

What it was like to be asked to take over a failing programme and be part of the turnaround that made it the smash hit that is one of the top shows thirty-five years later?
Barry Letts was the producer of Dr Who from 1970 to1975. He tells you things in his book, Who and Me, that you'd never expect to hear. He tells you about the grinding hard work hidden behind the glamour of television. He tells you what it takes to produce the sort of show that grabs people as Dr Who has done.

He tells you what it was like to be an actor in the pioneer days of live drama on TV – and the secrets of success if you are a writer or a director.
* There is so much to tell that there will be a second book next year
*The new Dr Who series would never have got off the ground without the sheer determination of principal writer and co-executive producer, Russell T Davies. He was born in the same year as the programme, 1963, which meant that when Jon Pertwee became the Doctor in the 1970 season, Russell was coming up to seven years old, just the right age to be hooked.

He became an avid fan, right through the five years of Jon's time, and on into the Tom Baker era and beyond, staying faithful until it left the screen in 1989.

From that moment, he made up his mind that one day it would be revived, preferably with himself in charge; and when he'd acquired enough clout as a writer and producer, he bullied and badgered the BBC into letting him have a go.Russell T Davies says that he thinks that the time when Barry Letts was the producer, and Terrance Dicks the script editor, was the time that Dr Who was at its best – and that in the new series he has tried to take what they had done and bring it into the twenty-first century.

In Who and Me, Barry Letts tells you the story of that time, the story of the actors who were in it, the story of how the programme was made, and the story of the dedicated teams who made it. He shows you what it was like behind the scenes; he reveals the real people behind the public faces; and he tells you more than has ever been told before.