John Nathan-Turner - After Doctor Who

After Doctor Who

Nathan-Turner continued to be involved in Doctor Who-related events, including the show's 20th Anniversary celebrations at Longleat in 1983. After the series ended in 1989, he would go on to produce and write several Doctor Who videotape documentary releases during the early 1990s: The Hartnell Years, The Troughton Years, The Pertwee Years, The Tom Baker Years, The Colin Baker Years, Daleks: The Early Years, Cybermen: The Early Years, and a special release of the unfinished story Shada, and co-writing the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time, and co-presenting the BSB 31 Who programmes during their 1990 Doctor Who Weekend, until shortly before his death. He made his final contribution to the series when he appeared in a DVD retrospective on Resurrection of the Daleks in 2001.

He was in poor health in the last year of his life. He contracted an infection and died of liver failure just over a year before the announcement by the BBC that the show would be revived, with new episodes to air beginning in 2005. He was survived by his long-term partner, Gary Downie, a production manager on Doctor Who. Downie died on 19 January 2006. Downie spoke, in an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, of his time with Nathan-Turner.

Nathan-Turner lived for many years in London with a home also in Saltdean, Brighton.