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((Short description|Scottish television writer (1910–2002)))
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((Infobox person
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| birth_name = Donald Boyd Wilson
| birth_date  = 11 September 1910
| birth_place = [[Dunblane]], Scotland
| death_date  = 6 March 2002 (aged 91)
| death_place = [[Gloucestershire]], England
| alma_mater  = [[Glasgow School of Art]]
| occupation  = [[Screenwriter]], television producer
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'''Donald Boyd Wilson'''<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/mar/12/broadcasting.guardianobituaries|title=Obituary: Donald Wilson|author=Philip Purser|work=The Guardian|date=12 March 2002 |accessdate=26 March 2015))</ref> (11 September 1910 – 6 March 2002) was a Scottish television writer and producer who worked for the BBC. His work included co-creating the science fiction series ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in 1963, also later saying that he had named the series, and adapting and producing ''[[The Forsyte Saga (1967 TV series)|The Forsyte Saga]]'' in 1967.

==Early life and career==

Wilson attended the [[Glasgow School of Art]], following which his first jobs were as a newspaper cartoonist and sketch writer.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1H2R5Xntflc3W2nPVhgLGN6/donald-wilson|title=BBC Two - An Adventure in Space and Time - Donald Wilson|work=BBC|accessdate=26 March 2015))</ref>

His initial career was in the film industry, including working for [[MGM]] at [[Elstree Studios]], where he was Assistant Director of such films as ''[[Jericho (1937 film)|Jericho]]'' (1937) and ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'' (1939). During the [[Second World War]] he served with the [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)|Cameronians]] and the [[43rd Wessex Division]] before afterwards returning to the film industry, including helming his only film as director, ''[[Warning to Wantons]]''. In 1955, he was recruited to [[BBC Television]] by the then Head of Drama, [[Michael Barry (television producer)|Michael Barry]]. As the Head of the Script Department, Wilson was ultimately responsible for overseeing the commissioning and development of all the original scripts and adaptations transmitted by BBC Television.

==''Doctor Who''==

When the Script Department was rendered redundant by [[Sydney Newman]]’s radical shake-up of the [[BBC television drama|BBC Drama Department]] after his arrival as its head in 1962, the highly respected Wilson was given one of the most senior positions under Newman as Head of Serials. In this position, Wilson was responsible for overseeing the creation and development of a series that Newman himself had originally conceived: an educational science-fiction serial entitled ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It was Wilson, together with Newman and staff writer [[C. E. Webber]], who co-wrote the first format document for the programme.

In a 1971 interview, Wilson said he was responsible for naming the series, and when this was put to Newman he did not dispute it.<ref name="name">((cite book|last=Burk|first=Graeme|date=2017 |title=Head of Drama: The Memoir of Sydney Newman |location=[[Toronto]] |publisher=[[ECW Press]]|pages=450–1 |isbn=978-1-77041-304-7))</ref> 

Wilson was responsible for much of the early development work on the show, although he did strongly attempt to dissuade producer [[Verity Lambert]] from using writer [[Terry Nation]]'s script featuring a race of aliens named [[Dalek]]s. Once the script had been made and transmitted to great success, he called Lambert into his office to tell her that she clearly knew the show better than he did and that he would no longer interfere with her decisions.

==Later career==

In 1965, Wilson gave up his position as Head of Serials to concentrate on realising a long-held ambition of bringing ''[[The Forsyte Saga]]'' to the screen. Acting as both adapter and producer, Wilson created one of the BBC’s most popular and successful drama serials of all time, which was a huge hit on its eventual screening on [[BBC Two]] in 1967, and was quickly repeated on [[BBC One]]. He later acted as adapter and producer again on such prestigious costume dramas as ''[[The First Churchills]]'' (1969) and ''[[Anna Karenina (1977 TV serial)|Anna Karenina]]'' (1977), and also worked for [[Anglia Television]] on their series ''[[Orson Welles Great Mysteries]]'' in 1973.

==Death==

After his work on ''Anna Karenina'' he retired to [[Gloucestershire]], where he died at the age of 91 in March 2002.

==References==
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==External links==
*((IMDb name|id=0933318|name=Donald Wilson))

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