Doctor Who
Following service in the navy towards the end of the war, Innes Lloyd trained as an actor at the Central School. He joined the BBC in the 1950s initially in presentation moving into outside broadcasts. As an outside broadcast producer he covered many important sporting events such as tennis at Wimbledon, golf and motor racing. He also produced important state events such as the Queen's speech and Churchill's state funeral.
Lloyd began his drama career working on popular series such as Doctor Who in the 1960s. He was the third producer on the programme and his duration as producer ran for two seasons between The Celestial Toymaker and The Enemy of the World (excepting The Tomb of the Cybermen which was produced by Peter Bryant as a test piece to show he could take over from Lloyd). His most important contribution to the programme was in developing the notion whereby the lead actor in the programme might be replaced. This arose following continuing difficulties with William Hartnell as the lead actor.
Lloyd and story editor Gerry Davis came up with an intriguing way of writing the Doctor out - as he was an alien being, they decided that he would have the power to change his body when it became worn out or seriously injured, a process that would later become known within the mythology of the series as regeneration. Whereas John Wiles, the previous producer to Lloyd, had intended to replace Hartnell with another actor but playing the same character, Lloyd and Davis elected to change the entire personality and appearance of the Doctor. They cast actor Patrick Troughton, having considered character actor Peter Jeffrey; and Troughton first appeared in November 1966 after the changeover from Hartnell had been seen at the end of the story The Tenth Planet. That serial also introduced the popular Cybermen, villains who would return to face the Doctor on several subsequent occasions. Indeed, Lloyd oversaw something of an era of monster on the programme, introducing durable and memorable monsters like the Ice Warriors and the Yeti.
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