Michael Ferguson: 1937-2021
Television producer responsible for invigorating EastEnders in the early 1990s, and who played a key role in Doctor Who history. The producer Michael Ferguson, who has died aged 84, transformed the fortunes of EastEnders after it had fallen into a lull four years after exploding on to British television screens. One of his secret ingredients proved to be introducing two of the soap’s most popular characters, the Mitchell brothers – Phil and Grant. In 1989, BBC bosses, aware of criticisms about the…