- Clive Doig
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Clive Doig (born 11 August 1940)[1] is a retired British television producer.
Early in his career he produced the series for deaf children Vision On before becoming known as the creator-producer of a large number of children's programmes. Working for the BBC, he created programmes such as Jigsaw, which ran from 1979 to 1984, for which he won a BAFTA award. In the early 1980s, Doig produced the factual series The Deceivers and Eureka, both of which were fronted by Jeremy Beadle prior to his role on ITV's Game For A Laugh. Doig's other series included Puzzle Trail, Beat the Teacher, The Album, Abracadabra, Johnny Ball Reveals All, Eat Your Words and See It Saw It.
Doig often cast the same actors in different series. Among those who have appeared in multiple Doig projects are Janet Ellis, Philip Fox, Julia Binsted, Sylvester McCoy and Mark Speight.
Doig writes the Trackword puzzles in the Radio Times magazine.
References
- ^ "Clive Doig – stories from a life in tv", A Tech Ops History
External links
Categories:- 1940 births
- BBC television programmes
- BBC television
- Living people
- BBC television programme stubs
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