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
The Doctor (Doctor Who) Within the fictional narrative, the Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through time and space in a dimensionally transcendental – "bigger on the inside" – time machine: the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) which takes the exterior form of a 1963 police telephone call box, and retains the appearance throughout the programme. The Time Lords have dedicated themselves to overseeing all of time and space without interference. The Doctor chose to leave home by stealing an obsolete TARDIS model as revealed in the 1969 serial "The War Games" and depicted in the 2013