George Innes Llewelyn Lloyd was a Welsh television producer and former actor.
26 Facts About Innes Lloyd
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Innes Lloyd had a long career as a producer in BBC drama, which included series such as Doctor Who and Talking Heads.
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George Innes Llewelyn Lloyd was born on Christmas Eve in the town of Penmaenmawr, Wales.
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Innes Lloyd's ambition was to join the Royal Navy, but was denied entry to Dartmouth Naval College due to his poor eyesight.
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Innes Lloyd studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1949.
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In 1951, Innes Lloyd joined the rep comedy at the David Garrick Theatre in Lichfield, appearing alongside Lionel Jeffries in a variety of plays, such as The Recruiting Officer and The Bishop Misbehaves.
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In February 1952, Innes Lloyd gave his first performance on London's West End, appearing in the first run of the murder-thriller Silent Warning at the Watergate Theatre.
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Innes Lloyd joined the BBC Presentation Department in 1953, and soon moved into Outside Broadcast.
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Innes Lloyd produced several series of Top of the Form, an inter-school quiz championship.
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Innes Lloyd believed Outside Broadcast was becoming overly specialised and was no longer offering the variety he desired, and after producing coverage of the 1965 Wimbledon Championships, he requested a move into drama.
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Innes Lloyd began his tenure as Doctor Who's third producer by overseeing the production of scripts that his predecessor John Wiles and former story editor Donald Tosh had commissioned.
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Innes Lloyd wished to imbue future serials with a greater sense of realism and modernity, planting "everything as much as possible in the present day", and hiring Kit Pedler as an unofficial scientific advisor.
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Innes Lloyd oversaw the replacement of astronaut Steven Taylor and orphan Dodo Chaplet as the companions of the Doctor, introducing contemporary Ben Jackson and Polly Wright in their place.
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Innes Lloyd aimed to make the series more action-orientated and less whimsical than it had been previously: this included the introduction of recurring monsters the Cybermen, the Ice Warriors and the Yeti, and the termination of the purely historical stories prominent in the show's first three seasons.
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Whereas John Wiles, the previous producer to Innes Lloyd, had intended to replace Hartnell with another actor but playing the same character, Innes Lloyd and Davis elected to change the entire personality and appearance of the Doctor.
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Innes Lloyd intended to stay on Doctor Who for only a year, but despite his initial misgivings he found it offered exactly the variety he could no longer get in Outside Broadcast.
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At the start of 1968, Innes Lloyd departed Doctor Who to take over on BBC2's short plays strand, Thirty-Minute Theatre, which had been created by Sydney Newman principally as a vehicle for new writing, and was then in the middle of its third series.
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Innes Lloyd used the strand to experiment with bringing Outside Broadcast techniques to drama, shooting several plays on location using OB cameras: previously the location work in BBC dramas had been shot on film.
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Notable entries produced by Lloyd included 1969's Conversation at Night, starring John Gielgud and Alec Guinness and directed by Rudolph Cartier.
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Innes Lloyd produced 119 plays for Thirty Minute Theatre before departing in 1971.
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In 1973 Innes Lloyd produced Sporting Scenes, an anthology of six plays themed around sport, from writers including Andrew Davies and Alan Plater, and he produced the entire spring 1976 run of BBC2 Playhouse, as well as several subsequent plays for the strand.
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In 1972 Innes Lloyd produced the poignant comedy A Day Out, Alan Bennett's first play for television.
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Innes Lloyd subsequently became an established director of one-off TV dramas, and worked with Lloyd several times, including the first episode of Sporting Scenes, a film about cricket called England, Their England, and Going Gently, starring Norman Wisdom in a rare straight role.
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Innes Lloyd's work explored notions of Englishness in the twentieth century with productions such as An Englishman's Castle starring Kenneth More, a dystopian vision of the consequence of losing the second world war.
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Innes Lloyd married actress Susan Fox in March 1966, six months after they met at an audition for The Flying Swan: they had two children, Guy and Joanna.
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Innes Lloyd died of cancer on 23 August 1991, aged 65.