Ian Levine(I)

He is often credited as an influential figure in bringing to an end the BBC's policy in the 1970s of wiping episodes of Docteur Who (1963) and other popular series. In 1978 he discovered The Dead Planet (1963) at BBC Enterprises, where it was marked for destruction. By this time, the BBC had already purged hundreds of episodes of Docteur Who (1963), but the BBC ended the policy the same year and established a new archiving policy which preserved all episodes the BBC had left and enabled future repeat showings, as well as commercial releases on video cassette and DVD.

Docteur Who (1963) had eight producers up until 1979. There were always fresh ideas coming in. But in 1980, Nathan-Turner took over and kept going right until the bitter end in 1989. I just hate everything he did to Docteur Who (1963). He's a light entertainment producer and he was inspired by Morecambe (Eric Morecambe) and Wise (Ernie Wise), so he kept putting in guest-stars - Joan Sims, Nicholas Parsons, Beryl Reid... Hale (Gareth Hale) and Pace (Norman Pace)! That really was the final straw. John Nathan-Turner is the man who single-handedly killed Docteur Who (1963).