An Adventure in Space and Time asked to create a show that will fill the gap between "Grandstand" and "Juke Box Jury". He has an idea for a science-fiction series with the central character being a "doctor", although he does not know of what. When he tells his colleague Verity Lambert (Jessica Raine) she is hesitant to join the project. She changes her mind when Newman asks her to be the producer, not his assistant. Lambert and the show's director, Waris Hussein (Sacha Dhawan), meet William Hartnell to offer him the lead role in what will eventually be titled "Doctor Who" and, despite some trepidation, he
Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS programme's fiftieth anniversary in 2013, when the one-off special "An Adventure in Space and Time" was broadcast on BBC Two. Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS is a one-off, 50-minute television documentary, broadcast to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the science-fiction series "Doctor Who". It was originally transmitted on Monday 29 November 1993, on BBC One (BBC Two in Scotland). The programme was the first BBC-produced, in-depth documentary chronicling "Doctor Who" since the earlier "Whose Doctor Who" was broadcast in April 1977, although a thirty-minute, categorized compilation of archive clips had been