Barbara Clegg
Born: 1st March 1926
Episodes Broadcast: 1983
Manchester-born Barbara Clegg completed a degree in English at Oxford
University, where she became interested in acting. After graduating, she
embarked on a stage career; her work included a 1955 tour of Australia
with Katharine Hepburn, performing William Shakespeare's plays
Measure For Measure, The Merchant Of Venice and The
Taming Of The Shrew. Upon her return to the United Kingdom, Clegg
began to move into television, appearing in plays from 1956 and then
winning a regular role on Emergency -- Ward 10 in 1958. In the
early Sixties, she could be seen in programmes such as Deadline
Midnight as well as her only movie, the 1963 musical comedy It's
All Happening starring Tommy Steele.
By this time, Clegg had added scriptwriting to her portfolio, initially
with several 1961 episodes of Coronation Street. She both wrote
and acted in Strange Concealments, and contributed an episode of
Once Aboard The Lugger.... By the mid-Sixties, Clegg had given up
acting and largely focussed on writing for radio, although occasional
television scripts included installments of Crossroads and
Together. Through her radio work, Clegg came to know Eric Saward.
Soon after he became the script editor of Doctor Who in 1981,
Clegg submitted a story idea for the show. The result was 1983's Enlightenment, starring Peter
Davison as the Fifth Doctor.
Over the next several years, Clegg pitched several other story ideas to
the Doctor Who production office. Although none reached the
screen, both “The
Elite” and “Point
Of Entry” were later adapted for audio by Big Finish
Productions, and released as part of the Doctor Who: The Lost
Stories range. Clegg and Saward also collaborated on Gateway,
a proposal for a new science-fiction programme which was rejected by the
BBC in 1983. Her last television credit came on Gems in 1986. In
1993, Clegg published a biography of her uncle, Sir John Moores, called
The Man Who Made Littlewoods.
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