Donald Baverstock (18 January 1924 – 17 March 1995) was a British television producer and executive, born in Cardiff, Wales. He initially worked for BBC Television in their Talks Department, where he was the Editor of the topical magazine programme Highlight and then co-devised and edited its more ambitious and better-remembered successor Tonight, which began in 1957.
Baverstock worked on Tonight until 1961, when he was promoted to be the BBC’s Assistant Controller of Programmes across the whole television service. He did not occupy this post for very long, however, as in early 1963 he succeeded his superior Stuart Hood to become the Controller of Programmes for BBC1, in anticipation of the launch of the station's companion BBC2 the following year. In the same year he requested Sydney Newman to develop a new Saturday evening show for BBC1 which would become Doctor Who.
However, soon after the launch of BBC2 in 1964, Controller Michael Peacock quickly began to run into difficulties, and BBC Director-General Hugh Greene decided in 1965 that the two men would be better suited to running each other’s channels, and took the decision to swap them over.
Coordinates: 51°04′58″N 1°57′41″W / 51.0828°N 1.9614°W / 51.0828; -1.9614
Baverstock is a small village in Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Salisbury. The village has 10 private dwellings, a parish church and several farm buildings. The parish of Baverstock contains the manor of Hurdcott, a hamlet of a few houses to the south east of the village. Baverstock is bounded by Barford St Martin to the east, Dinton to the west, Compton Chamberlayne to the south and Steeple Langford to the north. There is a former school building, now a private residence.
To the north the village has cultivated chalk downland and extensive mixed woodland. To the south the village is bordered by the River Nadder meandering through water meadows. The road through the village from the B3089 terminates in unmetalled farm track.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Edith is dedicated to the Wiltshire saint Edith of Wilton and is situated on the brow of a slope facing south across the Nadder Valley. It has a ring of three bells, two of which date from the 15th century. The churchyard contains, among others, the graves of 32 Australian soldiers from World War I. Soldiers were encamped locally before being transported to the war theatre in France. The majority died from infectious illness.
Baverstock is a surname. Notable people with the name include: