Editing Adam Adamant Lives! (section)

=== Series development ===
''Adam Adamant Lives!'' has been called by modern observers "what ''[[Doctor Who]]'' did next",<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC - Cult - Classic TV - Adam Adamant Lives! |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/adamant/intro.shtml |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> because at least three ''Doctor Who'' alumni had key positions on the pilot. It reunited producer [[Verity Lambert]] with Head of Television Drama [[Sydney Newman]]. Together they had been at the core of decision-makers who launched ''Doctor Who''. The series also brought [[Donald Cotton]], who had the same year written two serials for ''Doctor Who'', back into Newman's orbit. Cotton and partner [[Richard Harris (television writer)|Richard Harris]] would write the first script, "A Vintage Year for Scoundrels", and would therefore come to be credited as co-creators.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0505194/fullcredits |title="Adam Adamant Lives!" A Vintage Year for Scoundrels (TV Episode 1966) - IMDb |access-date=2025-01-29 |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BFI Screenonline: Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-67) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/517661/index.html |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> However, over the years, Newman has been cited as creator of the show. Even the BBC has at times propagated this idea, calling him the creator on some of their own pages devoted to the programme,<ref name="BBC Cult Trivia">{{Cite web |title=BBC - Cult - Classic TV - Adam Adamant Lives! - Trivia |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/adamant/trivia.shtml |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> but not on others.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hodgson |first=Richard |title=BBC - Adam Adamant Lives! |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mysciencefictionlife/A17345135 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230415173708/https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mysciencefictionlife/A17345135 |archive-date=2023-04-15 |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref>

''Adam Adamant Lives!'' was a quick replacement for the show he had actually intended, an adaptation of the adventures of literary detective [[Sexton Blake]]. When the rights to the character suddenly became unavailable, it fell to writers  Cotton and Harris, along with [[script editor]] [[Tony Williamson (television writer)|Tony Williamson]], to come up with an alternative idea.<ref>http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/522017/index.html BFI article on Sydney Newman.</ref> Newman indicated near the end of his life that he had, indeed, been significantly involved in the rewrites, suggesting that his critic [[Mary Whitehouse]] had been partial inspiration for the character.<ref name="BBC Cult Trivia"/> Many of the indoor scenes were filmed at Studios 3 and 5 at the BBC Television Centre in London.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}