Richard Curtis.
Director John Henderson (centre) on set with Jonathan Pryce and Rowan Atkinson.
The Curse of Fatal Death was devised for the purposes of the seventh biannual Red Nose Day charity telethon in 1999 - after Sue Vertue, sometime producer of Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley, proposed a Doctor WhO homage as a successor to 1997’s crime drama crossover Prime Cracker. She was, after all, married to a lifelong Doctor Who fan whO happened to be the award-winning writer of the groundbreaking children’s drama series Press Gang (1989-93), plus television comedies including Joking Apart (1993-95): one Steven Mo at.