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John Nathan-Turner

He was openly gay and lived with Gary Downie, who worked with Nathan-Turner as a production manager on Doctor Who (1963) in the 1980s. Downie himself died in 2006.
He was a huge fan of Coronation Street (1960) and he once said it was the series he would most like to have produced.
According to colleagues, one of his finest moments as producer of Doctor Who (1963) was when he saved The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: Part One (1988) from being abandoned after location recording had been completed but the studios at BBC Television Centre became unavailable because of an asbestos scare. Nathan-Turner was determined not to lose the production, so together with the efforts of David Laskey, the designer, they were eventually able to erect a tent in the car park at Elstree and finish it there.
He added the Nathan to his name to avoid confusion with actor John Turner.
According to Judy Cornwell, he was intending to make a film of her novel "Fear and Favour" shortly before he died.

[on Peter Davison in Doctor Who (1963)] Peter is an ideal actor for the role. He has the right combination of light humour, drama and realism, is very popular with children, and has a large following with feminine viewers.
I always liked wearing Hawaiian shirts, and Hawaiian shirts are very colourful, and I always felt that people took you very well, that they assumed you were a warm, friendly, funny, likeable, approachable sort of person if you were wearing a Hawaiian shirt, because of the bright colours and the patterns and so forth. So when it came to designing a costume for Colin Baker, I thought why not make it a Hawaiian shirt, but make it Edwardian, like the other Doctors wore, like Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee would have worn, sort of Tom Baker meets the Hawaiian shirt. So we decided on a multi-coloured motif. It stretched to the opening title sequence as well, we took the Peter Davison title sequence and added streams of multi-colours, just like on my favourite Hawaiian shirts. I thought it looked terribly nice.
She'll often be wearing leotards and bikinis. A lot of dads watch Doctor Who (1963) and I'm sure they will like Nicola [Nicola Bryant].