Rex Tucker

Rex Tucker (20 February 1913 - August 10 1996) was a British television director in the 1950s and 1960s.

He was born in March in the Isle of Ely. Amongst his work, he was a driving force during the formative stages of "Doctor Who" in 1963, acting as a caretaker producer prior to the arrival of Verity Lambert. Tucker's friend, the actor and director Hugh David — whom Tucker had actually approached about playing the leading role in the series — later claimed in interviews that it was Tucker who had named the series "Doctor Who", although Tucker himself credited Sydney Newman with this. Tucker was also the director originally assigned to the first serial, "An Unearthly Child", and later it had been planned that Tucker would direct more of the programme's introductory season. However, these commitments did not work out, and ultimately he directed only "The Gunfighters" in 1966. During the last episode, "The O.K. Corral", a dispute arose between Tucker and then producer Innes Lloyd over the editing of the episode, leading to Tucker requesting that his credit be excised.

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*imdb name|id=0875982|name=Rex Tucker
* [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv49/rextucker.html "Rex Tucker - The Forgotten Producer", by Paul Scoones ("Time Space Visualiser" issue 49, November 1996)]