Tom Baker was really my Doctor,” reveals Jo Wright, who served as the BBC’s executive producer on the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie. “I remember thinking he was incredibly attractive – sort of wild and funny – and slightly out of control. There was something really good about him.”
With a career encompassing hit dramas including Lovejoy, The Sculptress, Othello, 55Degrees North, Human Trafficking, and currently Midsomer Murders (to name but a few), Jo recalls her first encounter with the Time Lord actually took place when she was making trailers for Yorkshire Television.
“One day, they asked me to go down to the studios and get Tom Baker to do a trailer to camera,” she smiles. “I couldn’t believe it! This was my first job in television and I was going to meet Tom Baker – who was still Doctor Who at that point.