Newman followed BBC Managing Director of Television Sir Huw Wheldon's famous edict to "make the good popular and the popular good," once stating: "damn the upper classes! They don't even own televisions!" While he did personally create populist family-entertainment-based dramas such as "Adam Adamant Lives!" and the science-fiction series "Doctor Who", he also attempted to create drama that was socially relevant to those who were watching, initiating "The Wednesday Play" anthology strand to present contemporary dramas with a social background the resonance. Says "Screenonline" of this development, "It was from this artistic high of the 'golden age' of British TV drama (this 'agitational contemporaneity', as Newman coined it) that a new generation of TV playwrights emerged."